encryption

Google, Twitter, Facebook Pledge To Up Anti-Terror Efforts

Home Secretary Amber Rudd holds meeting with leading tech firms over tackling terrorist content online

8 years ago

Home Secretary Slams WhatsApp’s ‘Completely Unacceptable’ Encryption After London Attacks

Messaging service providers such as WhatsApp and Apple are offering militants 'a place to hide', says home secretary

8 years ago

Tales In Tech History: WhatsApp

Popular messaging app celebrates 8th birthday.

8 years ago

RSA 2017: Five Reasons Why We’re Losing The Cyber Battle

RSA 2017: Why exactly are the cyber criminals currently coming out on top? Here are five reasons...

8 years ago

Docker Secures Container Secrets in Datacenter Update

Docker has added new security features to its open-source and commercial container platforms

8 years ago

Microsoft Encrypts Cloud Data With Azure Storage Service

Azure users will be able to encrypt their cloud data by default as Microsoft previews Storage Service Encryption

8 years ago

Hackers Lovin’ It As McDonald’s Site Vulnerable To Phishing Attack

Shoddy password practices leave the door open for hackers to take away customer details

8 years ago

WhatsApp Denies It Has Compromised Encryption With ‘Backdoor’

UPDATED: Researcher says WhatsApp can reissue encryption keys for offline devices, compromising privacy. WhatsApp says there is no backdoor and…

8 years ago

Google Cloud Increases Encryption Push With Key Management Service

New beta tool for Google Cloud seeks to simplify encryption key management

8 years ago

ICO Slaps Insurers RSA With £150,000 Fine After Data Protection ‘Failure’

An unencrypted hard drive containing customer's names, addresses and bank account details was stolen

8 years ago

Oracle Exec Resigns Over CEO’s Support For Donald Trump

Decision by Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz to join Trump transition team leads to executive resignation

8 years ago

ENISA: Encryption Back-Doors ‘Not A Solution’

EU security body concludes government-mandated backdoors would make legitimate services less secure and harm law enforcement

8 years ago

Ransomware Attacks Show Threefold Increase In 2016

Ransomware attacks developed significantly in 2016, both in prevalence and sophistication, making it the threat of the year for businesses…

8 years ago

Police Ambush Criminal To Bypass iPhone Security

How to get around the problem of a locked smartphone? Just ambush the criminal when he is using it. Simples

8 years ago

How To Protect The Encryption Keys To Your Kingdom

ANALYSIS: Encryption keys are wonderful things that allow your organisation to conduct secure communications without issue- as long as you…

8 years ago

Apple ‘Sends iPhone Call History To iCloud’

Law enforcement could get their hands on call data if it is sent to iCloud for 'no reason', claims Russian…

8 years ago

Tech Giants Call For President Trump ‘Dialogue’ And Support For Encryption

Facebook, Amazon, Google and others call on the US president-elect to support encrypted communications, net neutrality

8 years ago

Apple iOS 10.2 Public Beta Strengthens iTunes Backup Encryption

The Cupertino company boasts backup encryption that will take 1,000 years to hack

8 years ago

Google’s AI Neural Networks Learn To Create Their Own Encryption

Two neural nets were created to communicate securely while a third tried to crack their inhuman cipher messages

8 years ago

US Legislators Demand Briefing On Yahoo Email Scan

Lawmakers want to judge the legality of intelligence services' access to Yahoo Mail

8 years ago

Nearly Three Quarters Of UK Police Websites Are Insecure

The Centre for Public Safety highlighted the police are putting the public at unnecessary risk of cyber crime

8 years ago

Signal Disclosed User Data To US Government

Signal's parent company provided data on a user to US authorities - but there wasn't much to hand over

8 years ago

Yahoo Certificate Security Is ‘Still Poor’ Despite Hack

Research finds that Yahoo has still not taken steps to improve its certificate security and encryption, despite massive data breach

8 years ago

Bugs Found In ‘Secure’ Signal Messaging Service

Attackers could use the bugs to block attachments sent using the Edward Snowden-recommended service

8 years ago

EU ‘Seeks To Limit Digital Comms Encryption’

The EU wants to force WhatsApp, iMessage and other Internet-based tools to abide by tougher data-protection rules, leaked documents say

8 years ago

Google Releases Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys For Cloud

Google's CSEK moves into GA, meaning all customers can now bring their own encryption keys for Compute Engine

8 years ago

GhostMail Ends Services ‘To Prevent Misuse’

GhostMail said it doesn't want its encrypted email service used by 'the wrong people'

8 years ago

WhatsApp ‘Doesn’t Fully Delete Messages’

Deleted WhatsApp messages could be easy to recover, with unencrypted copies stored on iCloud, a researcher finds

8 years ago

Stampado Ransomware Starts Deleting Files If No Payment Is Made

The clock is ticking. Ransomware victims have just 96 hours to cough up or it begins deleting files

8 years ago

Ranscam Malware Poses As Ransomware But Just Deletes Your Files

Malware dubbed 'ranscam' asks for payment to unlock files, but in reality has already deleted them

8 years ago