Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Bill—Here’s Everything You Need To Know
Australia’s House of Representatives has finally passed the “Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018,” also known as the …
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Keybase browser extension weakness discovered
Is the Keybase secure messaging browser extension safe to use or not? Respected researcher Wladimir Palant (of AdBlock Plus fame) is so …
‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else
A pact of five nation states dedicated to a global “collect it all” surveillance mission has issued a memo calling on their governments …
WhatsApp urges Android users to manually backup their chats
The good news for Android users: WhatsApp chats, photos and videos are no longer going to eat into your precious Google Drive storage …
Skype Announced End-to-End Encryption Across all the Platforms
During the skype private conversation all the calls, messages and image/audio/video are encrypted. How to Start Skype Private Conversation …
Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail
The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at suspected criminals’ data. If they can’t, it would jail people for …
Severe Bug Discovered in Signal Messaging App for Windows and Linux
A security researcher has discovered a severe vulnerability in the popular end-to-end encrypted Signal messaging app for Windows and Linux …
Secret Conversation – Twitter is testing End-to-End Encryption for direct messages
A security researcher found evidence that Twitter is testing a new feature, dubbed ‘Secret Conversation,’ to enable end-to-end …
Twitter is Testing End-to-End Encrypted Direct Messages
Twitter has been adopting new trends at a snail’s pace. But it’s better to be late than …
Microsoft Office 365 Gets Built-in Ransomware Protection and Enhanced Security Features
Ransomware has been around for a few years, but it has become an albatross around everyone’s neck, targeting big businesses, hospitals, …
Skype Finally Adds End-to-End Encryption for Private Conversations
Good news for Skype users who are concerned about their privacy. Microsoft is collaborating with popular encrypted communication company …
Skype adds e2e encrypted ‘private chats’ powered by Signal Protocol
Microsoft-owned VoIP and messaging platform Skype has long been criticized for lacking end-to-end encryption. Which means Skype …
WhatsApp security flaws could let uninvited guests slip into your private group chats
Security researchers have discovered flaws in WhatsApp’s security that could allow anyone to covertly add uninvited people to any private, …
WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow ‘Potential Attackers’ to Spy On Encrypted Group Chats
A more dramatic revelation of 2018—an outsider can secretly eavesdrop on your private end-to-end encrypted group chats on WhatsApp and …
ProtonMail encrypted mail service adds support for Apple Mail, Outlook and Thunderbird
Mr. Robot’s email service of choice just expanded its support for a handful of popular email …
ProtonMail bolts on an encrypted contacts manager and digital signing for contacts
Another neat addition to end-to-end encrypted email client ProtonMail: It’s added a zero-access encrypted contacts manager that also …
Everyone bored to death by DoJ’s latest call for crypto backdoors
The U.S. Department of Justice’s deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, gave a speech on encryption yesterday and boy was it a …
UK gives WhatsApp another spanking over e2e crypto
The UK government has once again bared its anti-technology teeth in public, leaning especially heavily on messaging platform WhatsApp for its …
Signal app’s address book security could upset governments
Signal, arguably the world’s most respected secure messaging app, plans to use the DRM (Digital Rights Management) secure enclave built into Intel’s Skylake chips as a way of hiding away…
China Bans WhatsApp Messenger
Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has already been struggling for its existence in China ever since July when Chinese government blocked its users from sending photos and videos over the…
A Company Offers $500,000 For Secure Messaging Apps Zero-Day Exploits
How much does your privacy cost? It will soon be sold for half a Million US dollars. Read full news article on The Hacker News
More political headbanging on encryption threatens privacy
The UK’s Home Secretary has yet again cranked up the pressure on messaging giants over use of end-to-end encryption to secure communications sent via popular services like WhatsApp — implying…
Telegram Agrees to Register With Russia to Avoid Ban, But Won’t Share User Data
After being threatened with a ban in Russia, end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app has finally agreed to register with new Russian Data Protection Laws, but its founder has assured that…
European Parliament Proposes Ban On Encryption Backdoors
Prime Minister Theresa May wants tech companies, like Facebook, Apple, and Google, to create controversial ‘backdoors’ for police, but even somewhere she knows that it’s not that easy as it…
We want to limit use of e2e encryption, confirms UK minister
The UK government has once again amped up its attacks on tech platforms’ use of end-to-end encryption, and called for International co-operation to regulate the Internet so that it cannot…
Could the UK be about to break end-to-end encryption?
Once again there are indications the UK government intends to use the law to lean on encryption. A report in The Sun this week quoted a Conservative minister saying that should the government be…