Encryption Stories for 2019

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
Comcast Is Lobbying Against Encryption That Could Prevent it From Learning Your Browsing History 79
Edward Snowden: 'Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy. This is Our New Battleground' 135
Schneier Slams Australia's Encryption Laws and CyberCon Speaker Bans 51
Thunderbird Announces OpenPGP Support 40
Russian Malware 'Patches' Chrome and Firefox To Fingerprint TLS Traffic 13
Chrome Promises 'No More Mixed Messages About HTTPS ' 46
Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook's Apps 191
AMD Ryzen Pro 3000 Series Desktop CPUs Will Offer Full RAM Encryption 53
Microsoft Stops Trusting SSD Makers 56
Google's DNS-Over-HTTPS Plans Scrutinized By US Congress 130
Facebook and WhatsApp Will Be Forced to Share Encrypted Messages With British Police 128
The FBI Tried To Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone Network 29
Weakness In Intel Chips Lets Researchers Steal Encrypted SSH Keystrokes 78
Firefox Will Soon Encrypt DNS Requests By Default 147
Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked a Month Before Election 53
Should HTTPS Certificates Expire After Just 397 Days? 92
Did WhatsApp Backdoor Rumor Come From 'Unanswered Questions ' and 'Leap of Faith' For Closed-Source Encryption Products? 105
Facebook Insists No Security 'Backdoor' Is Planned for WhatsApp 56
Is Facebook Planning on Backdooring WhatsApp? 131
'No More Ransom' Decryption Tools Prevent $108M In Ransomware Payments 95
Did Facebook End The Encryption Debate? 163
AG Barr Says Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors 582
Monroe College Hit With Ransomware, $2 Million Demanded 97
Someone Is Spamming and Breaking a Core Component of PGP's Ecosystem 88
Sting Finds Ransomware Data Recovery Firms Are Just Paying The Ransom 148
Trump White House Reportedly Debating Encryption Policy Behind Closed Doors 199
The Ambitious Plan To Reinvent How Websites Get Their Names 178
What Would Happen If All Encryption Could Be Broken? 316
Is Facebook Already Working On An Encryption Backdoor? 79
A German Minister Wants To Ban End-to-End Chat Encryption 159
Apple, Google and WhatsApp Condemn GCHQ Proposal To Eavesdrop on Encrypted Messages 103
New John the Ripper Cracks Passwords On FPGAs 58
Academics Improve SHA-1 Collision Attack, Make It Actually Dangerous 69
Ask Slashdot: Would a Separate, Walled-Off 'SafeNet' Help Reduce Cybercrime? 284
French Government Releases In-house IM App To Replace WhatsApp and Telegram Use 37
DARPA Wants To Make a Better, More Secure Version of WhatsApp 93
Gmail Becomes First Major Email Provider To Support MTA-STS, TLS Reporting 25
Russia Orders Major VPN Providers To Block 'Banned' Sites 87
Slack Hands Over Control of Encryption Keys To Regulated Customers 32
Quantum Computer Not Ready To Break Public Key Encryption For At Least 10 Years, Some Experts Say 84
Tim Berners-Lee Talks About India's Recent Push To Data Localization, Proposed Compromise of End-to-End Encryption, and Frequent Internet Shutdowns 41
Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail 98
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Shift To Emphasize Encrypted Ephemeral Messages 99
FBI Director Christopher Wray On Encryption: We Can't Have an 'Entirely Unfettered Space Beyond the Reach of Law Enforcement' 447
Australian Email Service FastMail Says It is Losing Customers and Facing Calls To Move Operations Outside of the Country Over Local Anti-Encryption Laws 65
Highest Court In Indiana Set To Decide If You Can Be Forced To Unlock Your Phone 190
Digital Exchange Loses $137 Million As Founder Takes Passwords To the Grave 252
Zuckerberg Plans To Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger 126
The Feds Cracked El Chapo's Encrypted Comms Network By Flipping His System Admin 111
OSNews Suffered 'Likely' Data Breach, Contemplated Going Offline Permanently 77