Lots of big issues this week breaches, encryption, supply chains and patching problems. Listen now! (Full transcript inside.)

US Company put "sophisticated encryption" on phones sold to drug traffickers.

Following the European Council’s adoption of a resolution on encryption last month, encrypted service providers are fighting back.

Some features won't work with end-to-end encryption switched on.

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Learn the hows, whys, and whats of OpenZFS encryption with this short guide.

Our online privacy faces growing threats. Governments around the world are calling for encryption backdoors that would enable access to personal information. They argue that encryption ...

Google is rolling out a bunch of new updates for Android users related to privacy and usability. Here's what you'll be getting End-to-end encryption for RCS RCS messages are getting ...

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Random numbers – a vital part of encryption – are hard for computers to generate, but a new trick turns memory chips into a source of random noise

Zoom reportedly will add stronger encryption to its paid customers’ video calls, but isn’t planning to offer the enhanced security to all accounts. It remains to be seen whether some free accounts, such as nonprofit users, might qualify for the more secure calls.

Quantum computers may one day break encryption, and security researchers say intelligence agencies may already be storing encrypted data with a plan to crack it in future

The move will make a company's data indecipherable to Google.

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Commentary Misguided legislation pushing for backdoors to end-to-end encryption would be a disaster for data privacy.

Documents reveal Canberra began seeking powers to crack encrypted communications nearly two years before unveiling law.

New UK rules could prohibit technology that also keeps messages safe

The debate over device encryption isn’t dead, it was merely resting. And it just won’t go away.

European Commission paper sets up potential clash with tech companies and privacy advocates

Training AIs is essential to today’s tech sector, but handling the amount of data needed to do so is intrinsically dangerous. DARPA hopes to change that by tapping the encryption experts at Duality to create a hardware-accelerated method of using large quantities of data without decrypting it…

The tactic, which experts in mobile-phone security said was concealed through an unusual added layer of encryption, appears to have violated Google policies

Ring just dropped new security features, but you have to switch them on before they'll work.

There's no secret that Facebook loves ads. It has stuffed the blue app and different features of Instagram with them. And the company has contemplated many times inserting ads in WhatsApp. Now ...

Nahoft uses encryption to turn chats into a random jumble of words.

Dublin-based Evervault, a developer-focused security startup which sells encryption vis API and is backed by a raft of big name investors including the likes of Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures, is coming out of closed beta today — announcing open access to its encryption engine. T…

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Compromise by "sophisticated threat actor" prompts company to issue new certificate.

Part of WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption scheme is a requirement for users to set up the service with a phone as the "main" device for an account.

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Oxeye discovered a new vulnerability (CVE-2023-0620) in the HashiCorp Vault Project, an identity-based secrets and encryption management system that controls access to API encryption keys, passwords, and certificates. The vulnerability was an SQL injection vulnerability that potentially could lead to a Remote Code Execution (RCE). Oxeye reported this vulnerability to HashiCorp, and the team quickly patched it in versions 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9. of Vault. HashiCorp Vault HashiCorp Vault provides encryption services for modern, microservices-based … More →The post HashiCorp Vault...

Signal’s introduction of anonymous cryptocurrency payments could give regulators an excuse to try eliminating end-to-end encryption altogether.

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Comcast/Mozilla deal follows dispute over ISP snooping and DNS encryption.

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It's been two years since Mark Zuckerberg made a bold statement in 2019 about wanting to integrate all of Facebook, er, Meta's messaging platforms — Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp ...

End-to-end encryption is growing in popularity. Google is getting on board.

End-to-End Encryption started as a technical preview in January and is now rolling out to all eligible devices..

Lots of big issues this week breaches, encryption, supply chains and patching problems. Listen now! (Full transcript inside.)

Broken encryption unlocks gameplay from 22-year-old cabinets.

The new round brings the startup's total funding to date to $36.5 million.

Along with Threema, Tresorit, and Tutanota, we are releasing a joint statement calling on the EU to reject any ban or attack on end-to-end encryption.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Evervault is encryption infrastructure for developers. At the core of this infrastructure is E3, the Evervault Encryption Engine. This post is about how we built E3.

Enforcing traceability on popular messaging apps will encroach into user privacy

FHE realy sounds like magic when you hear about it for the first time, but it's really based on very sound mathematics. The main difference is that FHE requires a shift in the programming paradigm that we are used to, which makes it a little more difficult to integrated in applications. That was until today thanks to a new toolkit we are making available for MacOS, iOS and soon for Linux and Android. The new toolkit will enable developers to get up and running, and experimenting with the basic concept of FHE in minutes.

Casey Newton catches up with WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart about privacy, encryption, and the future of messaging.

Duality, a startup founded by groundbreaking cryptographers and data scientists that is building tools to make it easier for companies to share data and collaborate with each other without compromising sensitive information, has raised some funding on the back of some significant early deals, inclu…

Microsoft Teams now has end-to-end encryption for calls, but only for one-on-one sessions right now..

Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) has arrived in technical preview, letting both free and paid users secure their calls. Zoom says E2EE is supported across its Mac, PC, iOS, and Android apps, as well as Zoom Rooms.

Export ban affects chips, telecom, encryption tech, lasers, sensors, and more.