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Elon Musk Says New XChat on X Comes With Bitcoin-Style Encryption, New Features
Elon Musk revealed on Sunday that XChat, the social media platform’s new direct messaging (DM) feature, will offer Bitcoin-style encryption. Currently available in beta on X (formerly known as Twitter), XChat is a new offering for the paid subscribers. Apart from encryption, the messaging tool will also come with vanishing messages, audio and vid...
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Explained: How MOVEit Breach Shows Hackers' Interest in File Transfer Tools
Ransom-seeking hackers have increasingly turned a greedy eye toward the world of managed file transfer (MFT) software, plundering the sensitive data being exchanged between organizations and their partners in a bid to win big payouts. Governments and companies globally are scrambling to deal with the consequences of a mass compromise made public on...
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Google Messages End-to-End Encryption for Group Chats Rolled Out to Open Beta Testers, Company Says
Google has completed the rollout of its end-to-end encryption for group chats on its Messages app to beta testers within a month. The rollout of the feature was announced for Messages users enrolled in the open beta program in December. Google first announced plans to introduce E2EE for its group chats at its I/O event in 2022.
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Facebook Could Become Platform of 'Child Pornographers', FBI Director Warns
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday that Facebook’s proposed move to encrypt its popular messaging program would turn the platform into a “dream come true for predators and child pornographers.”
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New Ransomware 'Locky' Spreading Through Email, Warns Government
The government has issued an alert for a new computer ransomware called 'Locky' which is spreading through a wave of emails with attachments. The malware can lock computer files with an encryption program and demand a ransom for them to be unlocked. More than 23 million messages have been sent in a campaign to spread variants of Locky, the governme...
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Facebook's Delegated Recovery Method Tries to Improve Upon Two-Factor Authentication
Facebook's Delegated Recovery method makes use of encrypted tokens that are stored in users' Facebook account and allow them to get back into their GitHub account in case they lose access.
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Samsung Galaxy S7 Launch, Android N Beta, and More News From This Week
Google was in the headlines for several other reasons this week, while the week was generally slow in terms of mobile launches.
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BitTorrent Sync Update Brings Encrypted Folders and More
Other features include the ability to run the app as a service (as opposed to program) on Windows.
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Yet Another Thing Exposed in the Ashley Madison Hack: Ridiculously Bad Passwords
When data from the massive Ashley Madison hack first leaked online, one tiny bright spot was that researchers said the company appeared to use a strong algorithm to encrypt users passwords. But now one group says it already decoded more than 11 million passwords because programming errors in how that encryption was applied left the information less...
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Delhi University Students Turn Scientists at Defence Research and Development Organisation Laboratories
Young scientists at Delhi University are busy working at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratories this summer, programming robots to be used in warfare and developing an image encryption scheme for secure communication.
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WhatsApp Messages to Get End-to-End Encryption
WhatsApp, has begun using a powerful new encryption program aimed at protecting users' conversations from unwanted surveillance and snooping.
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Edward Snowden Leaks Spur New Crop of Secure Phones, Communications
Public concerns about the US government's secretive surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden have spawned a slew of encryption products and privacy services that aim to make electronic spying more difficult.
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Heartbleed fallout: GE warns customers against 'Internet vulnerabilities'
Heartbleed surfaced in April, when it was disclosed that a pernicious flaw in a widely used Web encryption program known as OpenSSL opened hundreds of thousands of websites to data theft.
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'Heartbleed' computer bug threat spreads to firewalls and beyond
A pernicious flaw in a widely used Web encryption program known as OpenSSL opened hundreds of thousands of websites to data theft.
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NSA looking to crack most encryption programs in use: Report
NSA is trying to develop a so-called "quantum computer" that could be used to break encryption codes used to cloak sensitive information.
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Elon Musk Says New XChat on X Comes With Bitcoin-Style Encryption, New Features
Elon Musk revealed on Sunday that XChat, the social media platform’s new direct messaging (DM) feature, will offer Bitcoin-style encryption. Currently available in beta on X (formerly known as Twitter), XChat is a new offering for the paid subscribers. Apart from encryption, the messaging tool will also come with vanishing messages, audio and vid...
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Explained: How MOVEit Breach Shows Hackers' Interest in File Transfer Tools
Ransom-seeking hackers have increasingly turned a greedy eye toward the world of managed file transfer (MFT) software, plundering the sensitive data being exchanged between organizations and their partners in a bid to win big payouts. Governments and companies globally are scrambling to deal with the consequences of a mass compromise made public on...
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Google Messages End-to-End Encryption for Group Chats Rolled Out to Open Beta Testers, Company Says
Google has completed the rollout of its end-to-end encryption for group chats on its Messages app to beta testers within a month. The rollout of the feature was announced for Messages users enrolled in the open beta program in December. Google first announced plans to introduce E2EE for its group chats at its I/O event in 2022.
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Facebook Could Become Platform of 'Child Pornographers', FBI Director Warns
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday that Facebook’s proposed move to encrypt its popular messaging program would turn the platform into a “dream come true for predators and child pornographers.”
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New Ransomware 'Locky' Spreading Through Email, Warns Government
The government has issued an alert for a new computer ransomware called 'Locky' which is spreading through a wave of emails with attachments. The malware can lock computer files with an encryption program and demand a ransom for them to be unlocked. More than 23 million messages have been sent in a campaign to spread variants of Locky, the governme...
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Facebook's Delegated Recovery Method Tries to Improve Upon Two-Factor Authentication
Facebook's Delegated Recovery method makes use of encrypted tokens that are stored in users' Facebook account and allow them to get back into their GitHub account in case they lose access.
-
Samsung Galaxy S7 Launch, Android N Beta, and More News From This Week
Google was in the headlines for several other reasons this week, while the week was generally slow in terms of mobile launches.
-
BitTorrent Sync Update Brings Encrypted Folders and More
Other features include the ability to run the app as a service (as opposed to program) on Windows.
-
Yet Another Thing Exposed in the Ashley Madison Hack: Ridiculously Bad Passwords
When data from the massive Ashley Madison hack first leaked online, one tiny bright spot was that researchers said the company appeared to use a strong algorithm to encrypt users passwords. But now one group says it already decoded more than 11 million passwords because programming errors in how that encryption was applied left the information less...
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Delhi University Students Turn Scientists at Defence Research and Development Organisation Laboratories
Young scientists at Delhi University are busy working at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratories this summer, programming robots to be used in warfare and developing an image encryption scheme for secure communication.
-
WhatsApp Messages to Get End-to-End Encryption
WhatsApp, has begun using a powerful new encryption program aimed at protecting users' conversations from unwanted surveillance and snooping.
-
Edward Snowden Leaks Spur New Crop of Secure Phones, Communications
Public concerns about the US government's secretive surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden have spawned a slew of encryption products and privacy services that aim to make electronic spying more difficult.
-
Heartbleed fallout: GE warns customers against 'Internet vulnerabilities'
Heartbleed surfaced in April, when it was disclosed that a pernicious flaw in a widely used Web encryption program known as OpenSSL opened hundreds of thousands of websites to data theft.
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'Heartbleed' computer bug threat spreads to firewalls and beyond
A pernicious flaw in a widely used Web encryption program known as OpenSSL opened hundreds of thousands of websites to data theft.
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NSA looking to crack most encryption programs in use: Report
NSA is trying to develop a so-called "quantum computer" that could be used to break encryption codes used to cloak sensitive information.
