Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
[ad_1] For a week in October 2020, Christian Lödden’s potential clients wanted to talk about only one thing. Every person whom the German criminal defense lawyer spoke to had been…
Encryption Faces an Existential Threat in Europe
[ad_1] That’s a lot of lawyers. They [Big Tech] are throwing literally hundreds of millions of euros at this problem. And as much as Ms. Vestager is committed to fighting…
An Alleged Russian Smuggling Ring Was Uncovered in New Hampshire
[ad_1] As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, navigation system monitors reported this week that they’ve detected a rise in GPS disruptions in Russian cities, ever since Ukraine began mounting…
Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups
[ad_1] Apple announced today that it is launching expanded end-to-end encryption protections in its iCloud service. The company already offers the vital security feature for some data in its cloud…
How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
[ad_1] The tragedy came as frustrations with zero-Covid policies were already starting to spike. Violent confrontations had broken out between workers and security at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou that manufactures…
Apple Tracks You More Than You Think
[ad_1] Cybersecurity startup Corellium offered or sold its software to spyware and hacking-tool creators in multiple repressive countries, a WIRED investigation revealed this week. A previously unreported 507-page document, believed to…
Three-Way Entanglement Results Hint at Better Quantum Codes
[ad_1] Last month, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work proving one of the most counterintuitive yet consequential realities of the quantum world. They showed that…
How to Use Passkeys in Google Chrome and Android
[ad_1] These passkeys use public-key cryptography, so if they’re involved in a data breach, they’re useless to bad actors without your face or your fingerprint. Similarly, if your laptop or…
A Matrix Update Patches Serious End-to-End Encryption Flaws
[ad_1] Developers of the open source Matrix messenger protocol have released an update to fix critical end-to-end encryption vulnerabilities that subvert the confidentiality and authentication guarantees that have been key…
Vitalik Buterin on What’s Next for Ethereum After the Merge
[ad_1] GL: You’ve written a lot about governance, and I’m interested in the potential uses of blockchains for governments and societies. What is the potential of using decentralized systems like…
VPN Providers Flee India as a New Data Law Takes Hold
[ad_1] Ahead of the deadline to comply with the Indian government’s new data-collection rules, VPN companies from across the globe have pulled their servers out of the country in a…
How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging
[ad_1] Lastly, once you have your PIN set up, enable Registration Lock by going to Settings > Account and toggling on Registration Lock. With this feature enabled, attackers won’t be…
Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption
[ad_1] A Nebraska woman and her 17-year-old daughter are facing felony and misdemeanor charges related to allegedly performing an abortion after 20 weeks, which has long been illegal in the…
Facebook’s Message Encryption Was Built to Fail
[ad_1] The details are chilling. Police raiding a home, a teenager and her mother arrested, fetal remains exhumed from a rural burial plot. When police dragged off a 17-year-old Nebraska…
Pretty Good Phone Privacy Masks Your Android Device ID, Mobile Data
[ad_1] As marketers, data brokers, and tech giants endlessly expand their access to individuals’ data and movements across the web, tools like VPNs or cookie blockers can feel increasingly feeble…
A New Attack Easily Knocked Out a Potential Encryption Algorithm
[ad_1] In the US government’s ongoing campaign to protect data in the age of quantum computers, a new and powerful attack that used a single traditional computer to completely break…
How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship
[ad_1] For years, the anonymity service Tor has been the best way to stay private online and dodge web censorship. Much to the ire of governments and law enforcement agencies,…
Period-Tracking Apps, Ranked by Data Privacy: Flo, Clue, Stardust, Period Calendar, Period Tracker
[ad_1] This not only shifts the burden of risk assessment to individual users, but also makes evaluating the privacy and security of apps difficult to begin with. To do so,…