Encryption Stories for 2016

Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware 56
US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work 98
U2F Security Keys May Be the World's Best Hope Against Account Takeovers 162
Russian Authorities Are Trying To Unlock iPhone 4S From Russian Ambassador's Killer 106
Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology 37
Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google To Bypass Censorship 87
NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography 138
Barnes & Noble's Latest Tablet Is Running Spyware From Shanghai 63
Egypt Has Blocked Encrypted Messaging App Signal 44
Evernote Reverses Course On Opt-out Privacy Policy That Would've Exposed Users' Content To Employees 52
A $300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords 88
150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption 229
Researchers Point Out 'Theoretical' Security Flaws In AMD's Upcoming Zen CPU 57
Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law 137
Multiple Vulnerabilities In AirDroid Opens At Least 10 Million Android Users To MITM Attacks, Hijackings 30
Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform 30
Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days 45
New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption 215
A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute 172
Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access On Some Linux Systems 89
US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations 173
User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked 166
New Software Remembers Everything Your Computer Has Ever Displayed 117
New Attack Can Seize Control of Drones 40
Apple Shared User Data With Governments, Says WikiLeaks Email 106
US Bank Regulator Notifies Congress of Major Data Security Breach 48
Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption 137
Nuclear Plants Leak Critical Alerts In Unencrypted Pager Messages 79
VeraCrypt Security Audit Reveals Many Flaws, Some Already Patched 75
Firefox Users Reach HTTPS Encryption Milestone 63
Encryption App Signal Wins Fight Against FBI Subpoena and Gag Order 88
Tim Cook Defends Apple's Approach To Security: 'Encryption is Inherently Great' 198
LastPass On Mobile Is Now Free 10
How The FBI Might've Opened the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone 5c 66
Whither Tor? Building the Next Generation of Anonymity Tools 89
FBI Director Says Prolific Default Encryption Hurting Government Spying Efforts 367
How Security Experts Are Protecting Their Own Data 217
New Ransomware Poses As A Windows Update 89
New SWEET32 Crypto Attacks Speed Up Deprecation of 3DES, Blowfish 53
PSA: PlayStation Network Gets Two-Step Verification 42
Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi 140
How SSL/TLS Encryption Hides Malware 87
Computer Science Professor Mocks The NSA's Buggy Code 179
'Smart' Electrical Socket Leaks Your Email Address, Can Launch DDoS Attacks 82
Canada's Police Chiefs Want New Law To Compel People To Reveal Passwords 209
Tim Cook: Privacy Is Worth Protecting 120
Serious Flaws In iMessage Crypto Allow For Message Decryption 43
EU Plans To Extend Some Telecom Rules To Web-Based Providers 25
Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype? 237
Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid? 264
Under Fire, US Social Security Site Changes Security Policy Again 37
Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick 73
Should Cloud Vendors Decrypt Data For The Government? 136
America's NIST Seeks Public Comments on Cybersecurity and Cryptography 55
Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn 75
Tor Promises Not To Build Backdoors Into Its Services 69
France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative 446
Researchers Crack Microsoft Feature, Say Encryption Backdoors Similarly Crackable 86
Microsoft Disables RC4 In Internet Explorer 11 and Edge 40
DOJ Official Tells 100 Federal Judges To Use Tor 61
Microsoft Researchers Reveal Remote Encryption-Bypassing 'Evil Butler' Exploit 29
GhostMail Closes in September, Leaves Users Searching For Secure Email Alternatives 158
Google Cloud Now Allows Customer-Generated Encryption 19
BBC To Deploy Detection Vans To Snoop On Internet Users 212
Canada Wants To Keep Federal Data Within National Borders 104
Cisco Finds $34 Million Ransomware Industry 18
New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption 254
NIST Prepares To Ban SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication 150
Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone 319
Police 3D-Printed A Murder Victim's Finger To Unlock His Phone 97
BlackBerry CEO 'Disturbed' By Apple's Hard Line On Encryption 202
Ex Cardinal's Scouting Director Chris Correa Sentenced To 46 Months For Hacking Astros' Computer System 42
Juniper OS Flaw Allowed Forged Certificates 26
Encrypted DNA Storage Investigated by DOE Researchers 42
UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption 282
Windows Malware Poses As Ransomware, Just Deletes Victims' Files 118
US Judge Throws Out Cell Phone 'Stingray' Evidence For The First Time 118
VPN Provider Removes Russian Presence After Servers Seized 89
Leaky Database Leaves Oklahoma Police, Bank Vulnerable To Intruders 16
FBI Agent: Decrypting Data 'Fundamentally Alters' Evidence 89
MIT Says Their Anonymity Network Is More Secure Than Tor 81
Researchers Develop A Way To Stop Ransomware By Watching The Filesystem 102
Facebook Messenger To Get End-To-End Encryption 99
Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet 296
UN Council: Seriously, Nations, Stop Switching Off the Internet! 59
Security Researcher Publishes How-To Guide To Crack Android Full Disk Encryption 84
US Efforts To Regulate Encryption Have Been Flawed, Government Report Finds 110
Snowden Finally Identified As Target of Investigation That Ended Lavabit 77
NASCAR Team Pays Ransomware Fee To Recover Files Worth $2 Million 58
Russia Lawmakers Pass Spying Law That Requires Encryption Backdoors, Call Surveillance 109
Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories 224
Kernel of iOS 10 Preview Is Not Encrypted -- Nobody Knows Why 82
Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans Set Up Vote To Expand FBI Spying 660
Russian Bill Requires Encryption Backdoors In All Messenger Apps 207
Smartphone Users Are Paying For Their Own Surveillance 85
Apple Explains Why iMessage Isn't Coming To Android 157
Non-US Encryption Is 'Theoretical', Claims CIA Chief In Backdoor Debate 312
Hacker Steals 45 Million Accounts From Hundreds of Car, Tech, Sports Forums 47
Thousands of Email Addresses Accidentally Disclosed By Let's Encrypt 81
Twitter Denies Breach of 32 Million Accounts 28
Bitdefender Finds 'Hypervisor Wiretap' For Reading TLS-Encrypted Communications 86
Facebook Developers Can See Private Links Shared Through Messenger 22
BlackBerry Hands Over User Data To Help Police 'Kick Ass,' Insider Says 144
Belgium Tops List Of Nations Most Vulnerable To Hacking 35
Drive-By Exploits Pushing Ransomware Now Able To Bypass Microsoft EMET 52
RSA Keys Can Be Harvested With Microphones 157
Sirin Labs Launches Solarin, a $14,000 Privacy-Focused Smartphone 95
Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers 40
WWII Code-Breaker Dies At Age 95 120
Feinstein-Burr Encryption Legislation Is Dead In The Water 123
Student Exposes Bad Police Encryption, Gets Suspended Sentence 172
Don't Use Google Allo 127
Apple, Microsoft and Other US Tech Companies Undergoing 'Security Reviews' in China 34
The Intercept Releases First Batch Of New Docs Leaked By Snowden 55
EFF Announces Certbot Client For Let's Encrypt 29
FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud 171
British Hacker Love Wins Court Battle Over Encryption Keys 42
Ubuntu Founder Pledges No Back Doors In Linux 107
Without Encryption, Everything Stops, Says Snowden 144
FBI Bought $1M iPhone 5C Hack, But Doesn't Know How It Works 77
Top Security Experts Say Anti-Encryption Bill Authors Are 'Woefully Ignorant' 90
Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives 796
A Complete Guide To The New 'Crypto Wars' 68
Millions Of Waze Users Can Have Their Movements Tracked By Hackers 55
FBI Director Suggests iPhone Hacking Method May Remain Secret 110
US Begins Dropping 'Cyberbombs' On ISIS 126
US Wants Its Own Secure and Self-Destructing Messaging App -- And It's Willing to Pay 83
From Uber To Eric Schmidt, Tech Is Closer To the US Government Than You'd Think 48
Dutch Police Seize Encrypted Communication Network With 19,000 Users 77
FBI Paid More Than $1 Million For San Bernardino 'Hack' 99
EFF Sues DOJ For Access To Secret Court Orders On Decryption 62
FBI Tells Congress It Needs Hackers To Keep Up With Tech Company Encryption 103
Viber Update Brings End-To-End Encryption and Hidden Chats 39
Apple Refused China Request For Source Code In Last Two Years: Lawyer 57
BlackBerry Comments on Canadian Police Eavesdropping Report 61
US Anti-Encryption Law Is So 'Braindead' It Will Outlaw File Compression 241
FBI Tried To Defeat Encryption 10 Years Ago, Files Show 72
FBI Couldn't Tell Apple What Hack It Used, Even If It Wanted To 99
Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released 314
FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone 149
Facebook's Account Kit Login System Works Via Phone Numbers, No Passwords Needed 116
Jigsaw Ransomware Deletes Your Files If You Don't Pay Or When You Reboot Your PC 108
Experts Crack Petya Ransomware, Enable Hard Drive Decryption For Free 49
Apple Won't Sue FBI To Reveal Hack Used To Unlock Seized iPhone 43
WordPress.com Enables HTTPS Encryption For All Websites 86
Apple's Fight With US Over Privacy Enters a New Round 62
Dark Web Mapping Reveals That Half of the Content Is Legal 93
White House Declines To Support Bill That Would Let Judges Order Tech Companies To Break Encryption 150
FBI Director Says Unlocking Method Won't Work On Newer iPhones 78
FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone 346
Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption 182
Magic Kinder Android App Lets Strangers Send Images, Videos To Your Kids 30
WhatsApp Enables End-To-End Encryption For All Forms of Communications By Default 76
TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right 334
Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online 44
Taliban App's Publication Points To Holes In Google's App Review Process 80
FBI Wants To Access Terror Suspect's Skype Records 93
FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones 255
$40 Hardware Is Enough To Hack $28,000 Police Drones From 2km Away 97
Egypt Blocked Facebook Free Basics For Not Letting It Spy On Users 34
PHP, Python and Google Go Fail To Detect Revoked TLS Certificates 64
'Hack The Pentagon' Bug Bounty Program Opens For Registration 36
CloudFlare Wants Tor To Change Or Risk CAPTCHA Blockades 87
Microsoft Extends Its Windows Hello Login Security Features To Apps and the Web 47
Feds Used 1789 Law To Force Apple, Google To Unlock Phones 63 Times 101
Slashdot Asks: Should FBI Reveal to Apple How to Unlock Terrorist's iPhone? 286
Leaked Emails Reveal Widespread Corruption in Global Oil Industry 204
ACLU Shows How the Apple-FBI Fight Was About Much More Than One Phone 155
Police Unlikely To Win Wider Access To Smartphones Despite FBI Success In San Bernardino Case 90
CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers 143
US Says It Would Use 'Court System' Again To Defeat Encryption 232
FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case 457
Petya Ransomware Uses DOS-Level Lock Screen, Prevents OS Boot Up 155
Gmail's Encryption Warning Spurs 25% Increase In Encrypted Inbound Emails 57
U.S. Indicts 7 Iranians Accused of Hacking U.S. Financial Institutions 45
Kentucky Hospital Calls State of Emergency In Hack Attack 265
Apple's Lack of Bug Bounty Program May Explain Why Hackers Would Help FBI 73
Google Opens Access To Its Speech Recognition API, Going Head To Head With Nuance 46
FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone 237
FBI Grows "Cyber Most Wanted" List With Syrian Electronic Army Members 18
A Look Inside Apple's User Data Utilization Wars 67
Tor Project Says It Can Quickly Catch Spying Code 34
Encryption Securing Mobile Money Transfers Can Be Broken 28
FBI Delays Case Against Apple; May Have Way To Break Phone 255
Paris Terrorists Used Burner Phones, Not Encryption, To Evade Detection 161
Apple Unveils Smaller iPhone SE, Starting At $399 158
iMessage Bug Allows Attackers to Decrypt Photos and Videos 27
Snowden: What Happened In 2013 Couldn't Have Happened Without Free Software 120
Apple Hires Corporate Security Chief Amid Legal Battle With FBI 61
NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA 109
US Government Pushed Many Tech Firms To Hand Over Source Code 151
Apple Employees, If Ordered To Unlock iPhone, Might Quit 417
Gov't Accidentally Publishes Target of Lavabit Probe: It's Snowden 162
Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone 229
Facebook's Messenger Bot Store Could Be Most Important Launch Since App Store 60
Apple Stores iCloud Data With Google 49
Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? 167
Tim Cook Talks About Encryption, Right to Privacy, Public Safety, and DOJ 135
The Law Is Clear: the FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite Its OS 367
US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform 122
5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines 67
CyanogenMod 13.0 Release 1 Released 54
How Far Have We Come With HTTPS? Google Turns On the Spotlight 84
Apple Files Final Response In San Bernardino iPhone Case 250
DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code 596
Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Others To Beef Up Encryption 86
WhatsApp Encryption Said To Stymie Wiretap Order 56
Qubes OS 3.1 Has Been Released 43
Critical Bug In Libotr Opens Users of ChatSecure, Adium, Pidgin To Compromise 25
Obama: Government Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes' 546
Skype Co-Founder Launches End-To-End Encrypted 'Wire' App 52
Apple Announces 'Let Us Loop You In' Event For March 21st 66
Snowden: FBI's Claim It Can't Unlock The San Bernardino iPhone Is 'Bullshit' 242
Former NSA, CIA Director Michael Hayden Sides With Apple Over FBI 146
McAfee Says He Lied About iPhone Hacking Method To Get Public Attention 171
Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware 109
MIT's New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today's Encryption Obsolete 179
Amazon Backpedals On Encryption, But Fire "Still Sucks" 66
New Legislation Would Ban US Government From Purchasing Apple Products 296
EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code 252
Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI 293
French Bill Carries 5-Year Jail Sentence For Company Refusals To Decrypt Data For Police 190
Amazon Just Removed Encryption From the Software Powering Kindles, Smartphones, Tablets 202
FREAK, Logjam, DROWN All a Result of Weaknesses Demanded By US Gov't 70
ISIS Supporters Abandon U.S. Encryption Tools As Apple-FBI Fight Rages 162
New P2P Torrent Site 'Play' Has No Single Point of Failure 72
UK Snooper's Charter To Extend Police Access To Phone and Internet Data 59
EFF's Cindy Cohn On Why 'Code Is Speech' Is Key To Apple vs. FBI 102
Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While 244
90% of All SSL VPNs Use Insecure Or Outdated Encryption 67
Apple Is Not Such a Freedom Fighter In China 238
Tor Project Accuses CloudFlare of Mass Surveillance, Sabotaging Traffic 116
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter To Back Apple With Legal Filing In FBI Case 129
Carnegie Mellon University Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed By Feds 56
Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack 405
Australia's Major Parties Vote Against Encryption In Wake of Apple FBI Case 172
Thanks To Encryption, UK Efforts To Block Torrent Sites Are Pointless 79
Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat 389
More Than Half of Americans Think Apple Should Comply With FBI, Finds Pew Survey 585
Apple's iPhone Already Has a Backdoor 401
HTTP GZIP Compression Leaks Data On the Location of Tor Web Servers 79
Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? 301
Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody 435
Edward Snowden To Keynote This Weekend's Free State Project Liberty Forum 73
DoJ Says Apple's Posture on iPhone Unlocking Is Just Marketing 339
N. Carolina Senator Drafting Bill To Criminalize Apple's Refusal To Aid Decryption 296
Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? 212
John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America 364
Stealing Keys From a Laptop In Another Room — and Offline 58
Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto 521

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