On April 9th, 2021 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the Department of Homeland Security, recently paid...
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Encryption,
The Almighty Buck,
Index
On April 7th, 2021 with 25 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: The company behind the UseCrypt Messenger encrypted instant messaging application filed a lawsuit last...
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On April 5th, 2021 with 122 comments
VentureBeat reports on a "next-generation security" technique that allows data to remain encrypted while it's being processed.
"A security process known as...
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On March 28th, 2021 with 24 comments
"OpenSSL, the most widely used software library for implementing website and email encryption, has patched a high-severity vulnerability that makes it easy for...
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On March 8th, 2021 with 54 comments
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has signed an agreement with Intel to add it to its Data Protection in Virtual Environments project,...
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United States,
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On February 7th, 2021 with 63 comments
"A Swiss technology company says it has made a breakthrough by using quantum computers to uncover vulnerabilities in commonly used encryption," reports...
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On January 13th, 2021 with 42 comments
Brian Acton is crossing paths again with Facebook. From a report: Over more than a decade of building and operating WhatsApp, the company's co-founder first...
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On January 13th, 2021 with 92 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page to its website outlining its stances on user privacy in response to...
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On January 12th, 2021 with 91 comments
According to founder and CEO Pavel Durov, Telegram gained 25 million new users in the last 72 hours as it smashed past the 500 million active monthly user...
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On December 23rd, 2020 with 61 comments
Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, shares in a series of tweets: My students Max and Tushar Jois spent most of the...
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On December 14th, 2020 with 87 comments
Last Thursday, Israeli phone-hacking firm Cellebrite said in a blog post that it can now break into Signal, an encrypted app considered safe from external...
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On October 21st, 2020 with 96 comments
At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies have tools to get into encrypted smartphones, according to new research, and they are using them far more than...
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Technology,
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On October 12th, 2020 with 16 comments
The Xplora 4 smartwatch, made by Chinese outfit Qihoo 360 Technology Co, and marketed to children under the Xplora brand in the US and Europe, can covertly...
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On October 12th, 2020 with 129 comments
Members of the intelligence-sharing alliance Five Eyes, along with government representatives for Japan and India, have published a statement over the weekend...
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On August 15th, 2020 with 15 comments
At the Black Hat security conference, researchers from the Taiwanese cybersecurity firm CyCraft revealed at least seven Taiwanese chip firms have been breached...
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On August 3rd, 2020 with 61 comments
Garmin has reportedly paid a ransom to receive a decryption key to recover its files, after they were hit by the WastedLocker Ransomware last month. Digital...
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On August 2nd, 2020 with 50 comments
"In a new paper, Cornell Tech researchers identified a problem that holds the key to whether all encryption can be broken — as well as a surprising...
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On July 25th, 2020 with 40 comments
emil (Slashdot reader #695) writes:
The advent of quantum computing poses a well-recognized threat to RSA and other well-known asymmetric cryptosystems. It...
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On July 21st, 2020 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader writes: A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a...
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On July 14th, 2020 with 34 comments
Cambridge Engineering alumnus Hal Evans has built a fully-functioning replica of a 1930s Polish cyclometer -- an electromechanical cryptologic device that was...
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On July 10th, 2020 with 45 comments
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, writing for Vice: Ever since NSA leaker Edward Snowden said "use Signal, use Tor," the end-to-end encrypted chat app has been a...
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On July 2nd, 2020 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE News: [The Open Technology Fund is a U.S. government-funded nonprofit, which is part of the umbrella group...
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United States,
Technology,
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On June 4th, 2020 with 117 comments
Law enforcement officials across the U.S. have already revealed that they will leverage facial recognition technology to retroactively target protesters...
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Index
On May 31st, 2020 with 21 comments
"Zoom plans to strengthen the encryption of its service for paying customers," reports Newsweek, "but the upgrade will not be available to users of its free...
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On May 18th, 2020 with 92 comments
stikves shares a report from Engadget: Last December, a Saudi Arabian cadet training with the U.S. military opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola,...
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On May 15th, 2020 with 51 comments
Samsung and South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom have debuted the Galaxy A Quantum 5G smartphone, sporting a quantum random number generation (RNG) chipset....
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Cellphones,
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Index,
Mobile
On May 14th, 2020 with 90 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Paul Thurrott: With the new build of Windows 10 [19628], Microsoft is starting to test DNS over HTTPS. The new build...
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Microsoft,
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Security,
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On May 1st, 2020 with 34 comments
Christopher Wray, the FBI director who has been one of the fiercest critics of encryption under the Trump administration, previously worked as a lawyer for...
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Encryption,
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On April 9th, 2020 with 82 comments
Signal is warning that an anti-encryption bill circulating in Congress could force the private messaging app to pull out of the U.S. market. PC Magazine...
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On March 31st, 2020 with 74 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end...
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Encryption,
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Index
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