Slashdot Items Tagged "encryption"

Date / Time Story
Friday March 22, 2024 @04:21PM New 'GoFetch' Apple CPU Attack Exposes Crypto Keys
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:36PM Signal's New Usernames Help Keep Cops Out of Your Data
Monday February 26, 2024 @08:37PM Nevada Sues To Deny Kids Access To Meta's Messenger Encryption
Wednesday February 21, 2024 @10:32AM Apple Rolls Out iMessage Upgrade To Withstand Decryption By Quantum Computers
Tuesday February 20, 2024 @02:35PM Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private
Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:10PM Indian Government Moves To Ban ProtonMail After Bomb Threat
Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:52PM Backdoors That Let Cops Decrypt Messages Violate Human Rights, EU Court Says
Sunday February 11, 2024 @12:32AM Cryptography Guru Martin Hellman Urges International Cooperation on AI, Security
Friday February 09, 2024 @05:47PM David Kahn, Leading Historian of Code and Code Breaking, Dies At 93
Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:26PM Linux Foundation Forms Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance
Saturday January 27, 2024 @11:09PM 18-Year-Old Cleared After Encrypted Snapchat Joke Led To F-18s and Arrest
Saturday January 13, 2024 @09:21PM Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithm KyberSlash Patched After Side-Channel Attack Discovered
Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:54PM The Race to Shield Secrets from Quantum Computers
Thursday December 14, 2023 @03:17PM Proton Mail Finally Gets a Desktop App For Encrypted Email and Calendar
Sunday December 10, 2023 @03:58AM Apple Blocks 'Beeper Mini', Citing Security Concerns. But Beeper Keeps Trying
Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:43PM Meta Defies FBI Opposition To Encryption, Brings E2EE To Facebook, Messenger
Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:30PM Facebook Kills PGP-Encrypted Emails
Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:35PM Beeper Mini is an iMessage-for-Android App That Doesn't Require Any Apple Device at All
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @11:29AM Sunbird is Shutting Down Its iMessage App for Android
Thursday November 16, 2023 @01:53PM Signal Reveals Its Operation Costs, Estimates $50 Million a Year In 2024
Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:40PM Signal Messaging App Now Testing Usernames
Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:02PM Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption
Monday November 06, 2023 @08:16PM Scientist Claims Quantum RSA-2048 Encryption Cracking Breakthrough
Monday November 06, 2023 @08:08PM 'Encryption King' Arrested In Turkey
Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:56PM How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World
Friday October 13, 2023 @06:33PM Mathematician Warns US Spies May Be Weakening Next-Gen Encryption
Friday October 13, 2023 @01:25PM Sandvine Scraps Plan To Market Tool in US That Tracks Encrypted Messages
Saturday October 07, 2023 @08:14PM Cryptographer Announces $12K Bounty to Find the Lost Seeds to 5 NIST Elliptic Curves
Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:24PM New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network
Friday September 22, 2023 @03:13PM Meredith Whittaker Reaffirms That Signal Would Leave UK If Forced By Privacy Bill
Wednesday September 06, 2023 @08:43AM UK Pulls Back From Clash With Big Tech Over Private Messaging
Friday August 18, 2023 @04:36PM Google Releases First Quantum-Resilient FIDO2 Key Implementation
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:18PM NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed
Saturday August 12, 2023 @11:15PM Google's Chrome Begins Supporting Post-Quantum Key Agreement to Shield Encryption Keys
Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:53AM UK Defends Plan To Demand Access To Encrypted Messages To Protect Children
Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:36PM Google's Messages App Will Now Use RCS By Default and Encrypt Group Chats
Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:24PM Banks Fined $549 Million Over Use of WhatsApp and Other Messaging Apps
Saturday August 05, 2023 @12:20AM Ask Slashdot: What's the Best (Encrypted) Password Manager?
Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:02AM Cult of Dead Cow Hacktivists Design Encryption System for Mobile Apps
Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:43PM Could NIST Delays Push Post-Quantum Security Products Into the Next Decade?
Thursday July 20, 2023 @04:35PM Google Messages To Support MLS Protocol For Interoperable E2E Encrypted Messaging
Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:07AM Apple Slams UK Surveillance-bill Proposals, Threatens To Remove FaceTime and iMessage
Monday July 17, 2023 @02:34PM Senate Bill Crafted With DEA Targets End-to-End Encryption, Requires Online Companies To Report Drug Activity
Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:34PM macOS Sonoma Brings Apple Password Manager To Third-Party Browsers
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:44PM Security Researchers Latest To Blast UK's Online Safety Bill As Encryption Risk
Tuesday June 27, 2023 @01:14PM Apple Joins Opposition in UK To Encrypted Message App Scanning
Tuesday June 27, 2023 @10:48AM 3-Year Probe Into Encrypted Phones Led To Seizure of Hundreds of Tons of Drugs, Prosecutors Say
Friday June 16, 2023 @07:30PM The US Navy, NATO, and NASA Are Using a Shady Chinese Company's Encryption Chips
Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:50PM Hackers Can Steal Cryptographic Keys By Video-Recording Power LEDs 60 Feet Away
Tuesday May 30, 2023 @05:28PM OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week
Monday May 22, 2023 @04:34PM Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants To Ban End-to-End Encryption
Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:43PM Inside the Italian Mafia's Encrypted Phone of Choice
Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:37PM Google Plans To Add End-To-End Encryption To Authenticator
Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:15PM Meta Encryption 'Blindfolds' Authorities To Child Abuse, Crime Agencies Claim
Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:21AM WhatsApp, Signal and Encrypted Messaging Apps Unite Against UK's Online Safety Bill
Thursday March 09, 2023 @06:28PM WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief
Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:17AM Google: Gmail Client-Side Encryption Now Publicly Available
Friday February 24, 2023 @10:09AM Signal Would 'Walk' From UK if Online Safety Bill Undermined Encryption
Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:23PM Will Quantum Computing Bring a Cryptopocalypse?
Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:39PM US NIST Unveils Winning Encryption Algorithm For IoT Data Protection
Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:07PM UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal
Friday February 03, 2023 @01:25PM Kremlin's Tracking of Russian Dissidents Through Telegram Suggests App's Encryption Has Been Compromised
Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:43PM Anker Finally Comes Clean About Its Eufy Security Cameras
Wednesday January 18, 2023 @06:35PM iOS 16.3 Expands Advanced Data Protection Option For iCloud Encryption Globally
Monday January 16, 2023 @07:30PM CircleCI Says Hackers Stole Encryption Keys and Customers' Secrets
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:13PM Encryption and Decryption of Data Using Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) with the SAP
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:42AM Top SD Card Encryption Software With Edukrypt
Friday January 06, 2023 @05:48PM Amazon S3 Will Now Encrypt All New Data With AES-256 By Default
Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:42PM Chinese Researchers Claim To Find Way To Break Encryption Using Quantum Computers
Monday December 19, 2022 @06:01PM Google Introduces End-to-End Encryption for Gmail
Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:04PM FBI Calls Apple's Expansion of End-To-End Encryption 'Deeply Concerning'
Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:40PM FBI Calls Apple's Expansion of End-To-End Encryption 'Deeply Concerning'
Saturday December 03, 2022 @11:18PM Can the World Avoid a 'Quantum Encryption Apocalypse'?
Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:11PM Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage
Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:15PM Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage
Monday November 21, 2022 @01:04PM Amazon Plans To Close Up Shop on Wickr's User-Centric Encrypted Messaging App
Friday November 18, 2022 @12:51AM Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys
Sunday November 13, 2022 @04:42PM 'Cryptography's Future Will Be Quantum-Safe. Here's How'
Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:00AM Introducing Shufflecake: Plausible Deniability For Multiple Hidden Filesystems on Linux
Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:03PM How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Are Fulfilling Cryptography's Potential
Monday October 17, 2022 @12:42PM Mark Zuckerberg Says WhatsApp 'Far More Private and Secure' than iMessage
Sunday October 16, 2022 @05:39PM Europe Plans to Launch a Quantum Encryption Satellite for Ultrasecure Communications in 2024
Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:49PM Microsoft Office 365 Vulnerability Could Allow Sidestepping of Email Encryption
Wednesday October 12, 2022 @04:57PM Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled
Friday October 07, 2022 @10:32PM VPN, Tor Use Increases in Iran After Internet 'Curfews'
Friday September 30, 2022 @05:25PM NYPD Considers Using Encryption To Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts
Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:37AM UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns
Saturday September 17, 2022 @01:11AM Trojanized Version of PuTTY Distributed By Fake Amazon Job Phishers on WhatsApp
Sunday September 04, 2022 @10:41PM Peter Eckersley, Co-Creator of Let's Encrypt, Dies at 43
Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:33PM 14-Year-Old Cracks Australian Coin's Code - in One Hour
Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:08PM Royal Australian Mint Releases Coin With Code-Breaking Challenge In the Design
Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:20PM Major VPN Services Shut Down In India Over Anti-Privacy Law
Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:13PM Streaming Service Crunchyroll Blocks Privacy-Focused Email Tutanota Because 'Hackers Use It'
Monday August 22, 2022 @06:07PM Hyundai Uses Example Keys For Encryption System
Monday August 22, 2022 @11:10AM Encrypting Facebook Messenger Could Be a 'Grotesque Betrayal', Says Top UK Politician
Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:31PM Free, Secure, and Open-Source: How FileZilla is Making an Old School Protocol Cool Again
Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:36AM Semiconductor Makers Scramble to Support New Post-Quantum Cryptography Standard
Friday August 12, 2022 @03:46PM Facebook Will Begin Testing End-To-End Encryption As Default On Messenger App
Tuesday August 09, 2022 @05:33PM Windows 11 Encryption Bug Could Cause Data Loss, Temporary Slowdowns On Newer PCs
Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:52PM WhatsApp Boss Says No To AI Filters Policing Encrypted Chat
Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:11AM Codebreakers Find 'Sexts,' Arctic Dispatches In 200-Year-Old Encrypted Newspaper Ads
Wednesday July 06, 2022 @05:20PM UK Could Force E2E Encrypted Platforms To Do CSAM-Scanning
Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:34PM Mega Says It Can't Decrypt Your Files. New POC Exploit Shows Otherwise
Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:44PM ProtonMail Unifies Encrypted Mail, Calendar, VPN, and Storage Services Under New 'Proton' Brand
Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:05PM Hong Kong Considers Blocking Telegram As Part of Crackdown On Doxing
Friday May 13, 2022 @10:10AM NSA Says 'No Backdoor' for Spies in New US Encryption Scheme
Wednesday May 11, 2022 @05:07PM End-To-End Encryption Is Coming To Google Messages Group Texts
Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:45AM New EU Rules Would Require Chat Apps To Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse
Monday April 18, 2022 @07:05PM Researchers Break World Record For Quantum-Encrypted Communications
Monday April 18, 2022 @12:00PM British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say
Saturday April 09, 2022 @10:04PM US Military Makes 'Significant Effort' in Quantum-Resistant Cryptography
Monday April 04, 2022 @04:38PM Border Patrol's Use of Amazon's Wickr Messaging App Draws Scrutiny
Monday March 28, 2022 @07:17PM Security Experts Say New EU Rules Will Damage WhatsApp Encryption
Sunday March 20, 2022 @11:30PM How to Eliminate the World's Need for Passwords
Monday March 14, 2022 @06:09PM Researcher Uses 379-Year-Old Algorithm To Crack Crypto Keys Found In the Wild
Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:02PM Samsung Shattered Encryption On 100 Million Phones
Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:22PM It's Back: Senators Want 'EARN IT' Bill To Scan All Online Messages
Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:58PM Messenger's End-To-End Encrypted Chats and Calls Are Available To Everyone
Monday January 17, 2022 @03:02PM UK Gov't Plans Publicity Blitz To Undermine Privacy of Your Chats
Monday January 17, 2022 @01:03AM Why Many California Police Departments Are Now Encrypting Their Radio Communications
Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:38PM Federal Investigators Say They Used Encrypted Signal Messages To Charge Far-Right Militia Group Leader
Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:43PM NBC: 'You Probably Don't Need to Rely on a VPN Anymore'
Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:35AM New German Government Coalition Promises Not To Buy Exploits
Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:48PM FBI Document Shows What Data Can Be Obtained From Encrypted Messaging Apps
Monday November 22, 2021 @03:14PM Meta Delays Encrypted Messages on Facebook and Instagram To 2023
Sunday November 21, 2021 @06:51PM Cryptographers Aren't Happy With How You're Using the Word 'Crypto'
Sunday November 14, 2021 @04:46PM Will Cryptocurrency Face a Quantum Computing Problem?
Tuesday November 09, 2021 @05:46PM The First Cracks In Sony's PS5 Firmware
Friday November 05, 2021 @09:48PM Hackers Are Stealing Data Today So Quantum Computers Can Crack It In a Decade
Friday October 29, 2021 @06:15PM The US Government Wants Signal's Private User Data That It Simply Doesn't Have
Friday October 29, 2021 @05:15PM Hive Ransomware Now Encrypts Linux and FreeBSD Systems
Monday October 11, 2021 @04:42PM Google To Give Security Keys To 'High Risk' Users Targeted By Government Hackers
Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:34PM Is It Time to Stop Paying For a VPN?
Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:10PM Telegram Founder Says Over 70 Million New Users Joined During Facebook Outage
Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:08PM With HTTPS Everywhere, EFF Begins Plans to Eventually Deprecate 'HTTPS Everywhere' Extension
Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:41PM Free REvil Ransomware Master Decrypter Released For Past Victims
Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:46PM Ransomware Encrypts South Africa's Entire Department of Justice Network
Friday September 10, 2021 @03:12PM WhatsApp Will Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud
Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:15PM Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Joins ProtonMail's Advisory Board
Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:37PM UK.gov Is Launching An Anti-Facebook Encryption Push
Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:47PM America's NSA Isn't Sure Quantum Computers Will Ever Break Public Key Encryption
Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:27AM Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3
Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:34PM Apple's Child Protection Features Spark Concern Within Its Own Ranks
Friday August 06, 2021 @04:01PM Facebook's WhatsApp Takes Aim At Apple Over Child Safety Software Plan
Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:33PM Apple Plans To Scan US iPhones for Child Abuse Imagery
Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:51PM Facebook Reportedly Researching Ways to Use Encrypted WhatsApp Messages for Targeted Ads
Tuesday August 03, 2021 @10:30AM Facebook Researchers Hope To Bring Together Two Foes: Encryption and Ads
Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:20PM Amazon Rolls Out Encryption For Ring Doorbells
Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:51PM French Engineer Claims He's Solved the Zodiac Killer's Final Code
Friday June 18, 2021 @07:21AM Google Open-Sources Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Toolkit
Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:06PM Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened
Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:04PM The Android Messages App Now Offers End-To-End Encryption
Monday June 14, 2021 @05:52PM Google Will Let Enterprises Store Their Google Workspace Encryption Keys
Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:25PM Why Quantum Computers Won't End Up Cracking Bitcoin Wallets
Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:24PM FBI and Australian Police Ran an Encrypted Chat Platform To Catch Criminal Gangs
Monday June 07, 2021 @04:29PM PGP Turns 30
Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:40AM WhatsApp Sues India Government
Friday May 21, 2021 @05:33PM Unprecedented - Cyber Attackers Release Secret Key To Save Irish Health System
Saturday May 15, 2021 @07:04PM How America Will Improve Its Cybersecurity
Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:24AM Signal's Cellebrite Hack Is Already Causing Grief For the Law
Friday April 09, 2021 @04:53PM Customs and Border Protection Paid $700,000 To Encrypted App Wickr
Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:56PM Polish Blogger Sued After Revealing Security Issue In Encrypted Messenger
Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:15PM Why IBM is Pushing 'Fully Homomorphic Encryption'
Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:52PM OpenSSL Fixes a High-Severity Flaw That Allowed Crashing of Servers
Friday March 12, 2021 @08:40PM Encrypted Messaging Service Cracked by Belgian Police, Followed by Dozens of Arrests
Monday March 08, 2021 @03:25PM DARPA Taps Intel To Help Build the Holy Grail of Encryption
Sunday March 07, 2021 @06:52PM Can WhatsApp Stop Spreading Misinformation Without Compromising Encryption?
Friday February 26, 2021 @11:59PM Quantum Computer Solves Decades-Old Problem Three Million Times Faster Than a Classical Computer
Sunday February 07, 2021 @04:30PM Swiss Company Claims Weakness Found in Post-Quantum Encryption, Touts Its New Encryption Protocol
Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:56PM A 'Severe' Bug Was Found In Libgcrypt, GnuPG's Cryptographic Library
Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:24PM ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota Warn EU Lawmakers Over 'Anti-Encryption' Push
Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:16PM Signal's Brian Acton Talks About Exploding Growth, Monetization and WhatsApp Data-Sharing Outrage
Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:05AM WhatsApp Clarifies It's Not Giving All Your Data To Facebook
Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:26PM Telegram Adds 25 Million New Users In Just 72 Hours
Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:18PM WhatsApp Rival Signal Reports Growing Pains as New Users Surge
Monday December 28, 2020 @04:35PM Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police
Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:54PM Signal Says Cellebrite Cannot Break Its Encryption
Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:44PM Authorities Don't Need To Break Phone Encryption in Most Cases, Because Modern Phone Encryption Sort of Sucks.
Monday December 14, 2020 @06:41PM Israeli Spy Tech Firm Says It Can Break Into Signal App
Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:02PM Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm
Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:28AM Google is Rolling Out End-To-End Encryption for RCS in Android Messages Beta
Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:46PM NSA Ducks Questions About Backdoors In Tech Products
Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:07PM Hackers Can Now Reverse Engineer Intel Updates Or Write Their Own Custom Firmware
Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:58AM The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone
Wednesday October 14, 2020 @01:22PM Zoom To Roll Out End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) Calls
Monday October 12, 2020 @05:37PM Backdoor In Kids' Smartwatch Makes It Possible For Someone To Covertly Take Pictures, Record Audio
Monday October 12, 2020 @10:51AM Five Eyes Governments, India, and Japan Make New Call For Encryption Backdoors
Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:32PM Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information To Criminals
Monday August 24, 2020 @06:28PM Bridgefy, the Messenger Promoted For Mass Protests, Is a Privacy Disaster
Friday August 14, 2020 @08:30PM Did A Chinese State-Sponsored Group Breach Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry?
Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:59PM Zoom Sued By Consumer Group For Misrepresenting Its Encryption Protections
Saturday August 08, 2020 @01:42PM Bill Gates Weighs In on US Pandemic Response, Encryption, and Grilling Tech Executives
Monday August 03, 2020 @04:05PM Garmin Reportedly Paid Millions To Obtain Decryption Key, Resolve Recent Ransomware Attack
Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:44PM Could Randomness Theory Hold Key To Internet Security?
Friday July 24, 2020 @09:23PM State-of-the-Art Crypto Goes Post-Quantum (with Containerized TinySSH)
Monday July 20, 2020 @09:02PM Rare and Hardest To Crack Enigma Code Machine Sells For $437,000
Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:37AM 'Mozilla VPN' Launches in Six Countries
Monday July 13, 2020 @06:48PM Enigma Code-Breaking Machine Rebuilt At Cambridge
Friday July 10, 2020 @03:29PM Signal's New PIN Feature Worries Cybersecurity Experts
Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:22PM Inside the Plot To Kill the Open Technology Fund