Encryption Stories

Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 27
Europol Becomes Latest Law Enforcement Group To Plead With Big Tech To Ditch E2EE 146
New 'GoFetch' Apple CPU Attack Exposes Crypto Keys 40
Signal's New Usernames Help Keep Cops Out of Your Data 39
Nevada Sues To Deny Kids Access To Meta's Messenger Encryption 79
Apple Rolls Out iMessage Upgrade To Withstand Decryption By Quantum Computers 42
Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private 38
Indian Government Moves To Ban ProtonMail After Bomb Threat 25
Backdoors That Let Cops Decrypt Messages Violate Human Rights, EU Court Says 30
Cryptography Guru Martin Hellman Urges International Cooperation on AI, Security 18
David Kahn, Leading Historian of Code and Code Breaking, Dies At 93 5
Linux Foundation Forms Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance 14
18-Year-Old Cleared After Encrypted Snapchat Joke Led To F-18s and Arrest 133
Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithm KyberSlash Patched After Side-Channel Attack Discovered 12
The Race to Shield Secrets from Quantum Computers 67
Proton Mail Finally Gets a Desktop App For Encrypted Email and Calendar 21
Apple Blocks 'Beeper Mini', Citing Security Concerns. But Beeper Keeps Trying 90
Meta Defies FBI Opposition To Encryption, Brings E2EE To Facebook, Messenger 39
Facebook Kills PGP-Encrypted Emails 37
Beeper Mini is an iMessage-for-Android App That Doesn't Require Any Apple Device at All 122
Sunbird is Shutting Down Its iMessage App for Android 12
Signal Reveals Its Operation Costs, Estimates $50 Million a Year In 2024 29
Signal Messaging App Now Testing Usernames 52
Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption 40
'Encryption King' Arrested In Turkey 31
Scientist Claims Quantum RSA-2048 Encryption Cracking Breakthrough 129
How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World 45
Mathematician Warns US Spies May Be Weakening Next-Gen Encryption 78
Sandvine Scraps Plan To Market Tool in US That Tracks Encrypted Messages 7
Cryptographer Announces $12K Bounty to Find the Lost Seeds to 5 NIST Elliptic Curves 43
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network 52
Meredith Whittaker Reaffirms That Signal Would Leave UK If Forced By Privacy Bill 69
UK Pulls Back From Clash With Big Tech Over Private Messaging 20
Google Releases First Quantum-Resilient FIDO2 Key Implementation 16
Google's Chrome Begins Supporting Post-Quantum Key Agreement to Shield Encryption Keys 13
UK Defends Plan To Demand Access To Encrypted Messages To Protect Children 114
Google's Messages App Will Now Use RCS By Default and Encrypt Group Chats 72
Banks Fined $549 Million Over Use of WhatsApp and Other Messaging Apps 28
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best (Encrypted) Password Manager? 154
Cult of Dead Cow Hacktivists Design Encryption System for Mobile Apps 22
Could NIST Delays Push Post-Quantum Security Products Into the Next Decade? 45
Google Messages To Support MLS Protocol For Interoperable E2E Encrypted Messaging 21
Apple Slams UK Surveillance-bill Proposals, Threatens To Remove FaceTime and iMessage 61
Senate Bill Crafted With DEA Targets End-to-End Encryption, Requires Online Companies To Report Drug Activity 144
macOS Sonoma Brings Apple Password Manager To Third-Party Browsers 19
Security Researchers Latest To Blast UK's Online Safety Bill As Encryption Risk 5
Apple Joins Opposition in UK To Encrypted Message App Scanning 40
3-Year Probe Into Encrypted Phones Led To Seizure of Hundreds of Tons of Drugs, Prosecutors Say 60
The US Navy, NATO, and NASA Are Using a Shady Chinese Company's Encryption Chips 45
Hackers Can Steal Cryptographic Keys By Video-Recording Power LEDs 60 Feet Away 26
Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants To Ban End-to-End Encryption 76
Inside the Italian Mafia's Encrypted Phone of Choice 75
Google Plans To Add End-To-End Encryption To Authenticator 24
Meta Encryption 'Blindfolds' Authorities To Child Abuse, Crime Agencies Claim 84
WhatsApp, Signal and Encrypted Messaging Apps Unite Against UK's Online Safety Bill 69
WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief 47
Google: Gmail Client-Side Encryption Now Publicly Available 50
Signal Would 'Walk' From UK if Online Safety Bill Undermined Encryption 42
Will Quantum Computing Bring a Cryptopocalypse? 71
US NIST Unveils Winning Encryption Algorithm For IoT Data Protection 9
UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal 61
Kremlin's Tracking of Russian Dissidents Through Telegram Suggests App's Encryption Has Been Compromised 56
Anker Finally Comes Clean About Its Eufy Security Cameras 30
iOS 16.3 Expands Advanced Data Protection Option For iCloud Encryption Globally 17
CircleCI Says Hackers Stole Encryption Keys and Customers' Secrets 23
Amazon S3 Will Now Encrypt All New Data With AES-256 By Default 27
Chinese Researchers Claim To Find Way To Break Encryption Using Quantum Computers 50
Google Introduces End-to-End Encryption for Gmail 41
FBI Calls Apple's Expansion of End-To-End Encryption 'Deeply Concerning' 138
Can the World Avoid a 'Quantum Encryption Apocalypse'? 71
Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage 12
Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage 30
Amazon Plans To Close Up Shop on Wickr's User-Centric Encrypted Messaging App 8
Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys 24
'Cryptography's Future Will Be Quantum-Safe. Here's How' 17
Introducing Shufflecake: Plausible Deniability For Multiple Hidden Filesystems on Linux 90
How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Are Fulfilling Cryptography's Potential 13
Mark Zuckerberg Says WhatsApp 'Far More Private and Secure' than iMessage 92
Europe Plans to Launch a Quantum Encryption Satellite for Ultrasecure Communications in 2024 32
Microsoft Office 365 Vulnerability Could Allow Sidestepping of Email Encryption 21
Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled 30
VPN, Tor Use Increases in Iran After Internet 'Curfews' 22
NYPD Considers Using Encryption To Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts 126
UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns 32
Trojanized Version of PuTTY Distributed By Fake Amazon Job Phishers on WhatsApp 22
Peter Eckersley, Co-Creator of Let's Encrypt, Dies at 43 35
14-Year-Old Cracks Australian Coin's Code - in One Hour 58
Royal Australian Mint Releases Coin With Code-Breaking Challenge In the Design 41
Major VPN Services Shut Down In India Over Anti-Privacy Law 9
Streaming Service Crunchyroll Blocks Privacy-Focused Email Tutanota Because 'Hackers Use It' 43
Hyundai Uses Example Keys For Encryption System 107
Encrypting Facebook Messenger Could Be a 'Grotesque Betrayal', Says Top UK Politician 97
Free, Secure, and Open-Source: How FileZilla is Making an Old School Protocol Cool Again 41
Semiconductor Makers Scramble to Support New Post-Quantum Cryptography Standard 40
Facebook Will Begin Testing End-To-End Encryption As Default On Messenger App 13
Windows 11 Encryption Bug Could Cause Data Loss, Temporary Slowdowns On Newer PCs 28
WhatsApp Boss Says No To AI Filters Policing Encrypted Chat 38
Codebreakers Find 'Sexts,' Arctic Dispatches In 200-Year-Old Encrypted Newspaper Ads 28
UK Could Force E2E Encrypted Platforms To Do CSAM-Scanning 106
Mega Says It Can't Decrypt Your Files. New POC Exploit Shows Otherwise 52
ProtonMail Unifies Encrypted Mail, Calendar, VPN, and Storage Services Under New 'Proton' Brand 37
Hong Kong Considers Blocking Telegram As Part of Crackdown On Doxing 25
NSA Says 'No Backdoor' for Spies in New US Encryption Scheme 99
End-To-End Encryption Is Coming To Google Messages Group Texts 11
New EU Rules Would Require Chat Apps To Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse 204
Researchers Break World Record For Quantum-Encrypted Communications 53
British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say 19
US Military Makes 'Significant Effort' in Quantum-Resistant Cryptography 48
Border Patrol's Use of Amazon's Wickr Messaging App Draws Scrutiny 19
Security Experts Say New EU Rules Will Damage WhatsApp Encryption 169
How to Eliminate the World's Need for Passwords 166
Researcher Uses 379-Year-Old Algorithm To Crack Crypto Keys Found In the Wild 17
Samsung Shattered Encryption On 100 Million Phones 20
It's Back: Senators Want 'EARN IT' Bill To Scan All Online Messages 212
Messenger's End-To-End Encrypted Chats and Calls Are Available To Everyone 41
UK Gov't Plans Publicity Blitz To Undermine Privacy of Your Chats 53
Why Many California Police Departments Are Now Encrypting Their Radio Communications 104
Federal Investigators Say They Used Encrypted Signal Messages To Charge Far-Right Militia Group Leader 294
NBC: 'You Probably Don't Need to Rely on a VPN Anymore' 166
New German Government Coalition Promises Not To Buy Exploits 18
FBI Document Shows What Data Can Be Obtained From Encrypted Messaging Apps 23
Meta Delays Encrypted Messages on Facebook and Instagram To 2023 34
Cryptographers Aren't Happy With How You're Using the Word 'Crypto' 99
Will Cryptocurrency Face a Quantum Computing Problem? 68
The First Cracks In Sony's PS5 Firmware 45
Hackers Are Stealing Data Today So Quantum Computers Can Crack It In a Decade 75
The US Government Wants Signal's Private User Data That It Simply Doesn't Have 61
Hive Ransomware Now Encrypts Linux and FreeBSD Systems 26
Is It Time to Stop Paying For a VPN? 113
Telegram Founder Says Over 70 Million New Users Joined During Facebook Outage 50
With HTTPS Everywhere, EFF Begins Plans to Eventually Deprecate 'HTTPS Everywhere' Extension 48
Free REvil Ransomware Master Decrypter Released For Past Victims 7
Ransomware Encrypts South Africa's Entire Department of Justice Network 59
WhatsApp Will Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud 12
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Joins ProtonMail's Advisory Board 30
UK.gov Is Launching An Anti-Facebook Encryption Push 33
America's NSA Isn't Sure Quantum Computers Will Ever Break Public Key Encryption 92
Apple's Child Protection Features Spark Concern Within Its Own Ranks 99
Facebook's WhatsApp Takes Aim At Apple Over Child Safety Software Plan 51
Apple Plans To Scan US iPhones for Child Abuse Imagery 314
Facebook Researchers Hope To Bring Together Two Foes: Encryption and Ads 53
Amazon Rolls Out Encryption For Ring Doorbells 53
French Engineer Claims He's Solved the Zodiac Killer's Final Code 57
Google Open-Sources Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Toolkit 78
Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened 83
The Android Messages App Now Offers End-To-End Encryption 55
Google Will Let Enterprises Store Their Google Workspace Encryption Keys 26
Why Quantum Computers Won't End Up Cracking Bitcoin Wallets 91
FBI and Australian Police Ran an Encrypted Chat Platform To Catch Criminal Gangs 86
PGP Turns 30 50
WhatsApp Sues India Government 27
Unprecedented - Cyber Attackers Release Secret Key To Save Irish Health System 57
How America Will Improve Its Cybersecurity 119
Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief For the Law 109
Customs and Border Protection Paid $700,000 To Encrypted App Wickr 16
Polish Blogger Sued After Revealing Security Issue In Encrypted Messenger 25
Why IBM is Pushing 'Fully Homomorphic Encryption' 122
OpenSSL Fixes a High-Severity Flaw That Allowed Crashing of Servers 24
Encrypted Messaging Service Cracked by Belgian Police, Followed by Dozens of Arrests 92
DARPA Taps Intel To Help Build the Holy Grail of Encryption 54
Can WhatsApp Stop Spreading Misinformation Without Compromising Encryption? 149
Quantum Computer Solves Decades-Old Problem Three Million Times Faster Than a Classical Computer 77
Swiss Company Claims Weakness Found in Post-Quantum Encryption, Touts Its New Encryption Protocol 63
A 'Severe' Bug Was Found In Libgcrypt, GnuPG's Cryptographic Library 39
ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota Warn EU Lawmakers Over 'Anti-Encryption' Push 46
Signal's Brian Acton Talks About Exploding Growth, Monetization and WhatsApp Data-Sharing Outrage 42
WhatsApp Clarifies It's Not Giving All Your Data To Facebook 92
Telegram Adds 25 Million New Users In Just 72 Hours 91
WhatsApp Rival Signal Reports Growing Pains as New Users Surge 10
Signal Says Cellebrite Cannot Break Its Encryption 14
Authorities Don't Need To Break Phone Encryption in Most Cases, Because Modern Phone Encryption Sort of Sucks. 61
Israeli Spy Tech Firm Says It Can Break Into Signal App 87
Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm 100
Google is Rolling Out End-To-End Encryption for RCS in Android Messages Beta 77
NSA Ducks Questions About Backdoors In Tech Products 84
Hackers Can Now Reverse Engineer Intel Updates Or Write Their Own Custom Firmware 21
The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone 96
Zoom To Roll Out End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) Calls 31
Backdoor In Kids' Smartwatch Makes It Possible For Someone To Covertly Take Pictures, Record Audio 16
Five Eyes Governments, India, and Japan Make New Call For Encryption Backdoors 129
Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information To Criminals 41
Bridgefy, the Messenger Promoted For Mass Protests, Is a Privacy Disaster 80
Did A Chinese State-Sponsored Group Breach Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry? 15
Zoom Sued By Consumer Group For Misrepresenting Its Encryption Protections 11
Bill Gates Weighs In on US Pandemic Response, Encryption, and Grilling Tech Executives 86
Garmin Reportedly Paid Millions To Obtain Decryption Key, Resolve Recent Ransomware Attack 61
Could Randomness Theory Hold Key To Internet Security? 50
State-of-the-Art Crypto Goes Post-Quantum (with Containerized TinySSH) 40
Rare and Hardest To Crack Enigma Code Machine Sells For $437,000 46
'Mozilla VPN' Launches in Six Countries 69
Enigma Code-Breaking Machine Rebuilt At Cambridge 34
Signal's New PIN Feature Worries Cybersecurity Experts 45
Inside the Plot To Kill the Open Technology Fund 80
Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Other Major Tech Companies Decry Republican Bill Seeking To Break Encryption 66
Comcast Becomes the First ISP To Join Mozilla's TRR Program 85
Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies To Help Access Encrypted Data 182
Encrypted Phone Network Says It's Shutting Down After Police Hack 31
Discord Removes Servers Dedicated To Pirating Porn 46
Zoom To Launch End-to-End Encryption For All Users -- Not Just Paid Accounts 39
Mozilla, EFF, 19,000 Citizens Urge Zoom To Reverse End-to-End Encryption Decision 44
Some States Have Embraced Online Voting. It's a Huge Risk. 338
IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit For iOS and MacOS 46
Matthew Green on Zoom Not Offering End-To-End Encryption To Free Users 39
Signal Launches Face-Blurring Tool as US Protesters Embrace Encrypted Messaging 117
Zoom's New, Stronger Encryption May Only Protect Paying Clients 21
AG Barr Seeks 'Legislative Solution' To Make Companies Unlock Phones 92
The FBI Successfully Broke Into a Gunman's iPhone, But It's Still Very Angry at Apple 211
Quantum Security Goes Live With Samsung Galaxy 51
Windows 10 Previews DNS Over HTTPS 90
Documents Reveal FBI Head Defended Encryption for WhatsApp Before Becoming Fierce Critic 34
Apple and Google Pledge To Shut Down Coronavirus Tracker When Pandemic Ends 63
NordVPN Unveils First Mainstream WireGuard Virtual Private Network 51
Signal Threatens To Dump US Market If EARN IT Act Passes 82
Zoom Meetings Aren't End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing 74
Unpatched iOS Bug Blocks VPNs From Encrypting All Traffic 19
ProtonMail Could Reroute Connections Through Google To Circumvent Censorship 9
Motherboard Built a Database of Over 500 iPhones Cops Have Tried To Unlock 16
The EARN IT Act is an Attack on Encryption 176
Let's Encrypt Discovers CAA Bug, Must Revoke Customer Certificates 66
EU Commission To Staff: Switch To Signal Messaging App 46
Safari Will Stop Trusting Certs Older Than 13 Months 115
Iran Has Been Targeting VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors 49
Google Chrome Will Soon Start Blocking Insecure Downloads 139
Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging To the Masses 79
The CIA Secretly Bought a Company That Sold Encryption Devices Across the World. Then, Its Spies Read Everything. 277
Researchers Find Some LoRaWAN Networks Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks 6
Linus Torvalds Pulls WireGuard VPN into Linux 5.6 Kernel Source Tree 51
A New Bill Could Punish Web Platforms For Using End-To-End Encryption 93
This Sculpture Holds a Decades-Old C.I.A. Mystery. And Now, Another Clue. 20
Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting Backups After FBI Complained 134
Exploit Fully Breaks SHA-1, Lowers the Attack Bar 47
The FBI Can Unlock Florida Terrorist's iPhones Without Apple 121
iPhones Can Now Be Used To Generate 2FA Security Keys For Google Accounts 4
Apple Responds To AG Barr Over Unlocking Pensacola Shooter's Phone: 'No.' 234
Barr Asks Apple To Unlock iPhones of Pensacola Gunman 195
A Quick Look At the Fight Against Encryption 87
Over Two Dozen Encryption Experts Call on India To Rethink Changes To Its Intermediary Liability Rules 36
FBI Asks Apple To Help Unlock Two iPhones 134
ProtonMail Takes Aim at Google With an Encrypted Calendar 33
DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think? 83
Visa Warns That Hackers Are Scraping Card Details From Gas Pumps 88
Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key 66
Facebook Tells US Attorney General It's Not Prepared To Get Rid Of Encryption On WhatsApp And Messenger 109
Putin Signs Law Making Russian Apps Mandatory On Smartphones, Computers 64
Microsoft Announces Plan To Support DoH In Windows 97
Unusual New 'PureLocker' Ransomware Is Going After Servers 22
Boeing's Poor Information Security Threatens Passenger Safety, National Security, Says Researcher 21
ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says 70
NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data 29
BBC News Launches 'Dark Web' Tor Mirror 41

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