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Facebook on Friday said it's extending end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls in Messenger, along with testing a new opt-in setting that will turn on end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. "The content of your messages and calls in an end-to-end encrypted conversation is protected from the moment it leaves your device to the moment it reaches the receiver's device," Messenger's Ruth Kricheli said in a post. It's worth noting that the company's flagship messaging service gained support for E2EE in text chats in 2016, when it added a "Secret conversation" option to its app, while communications on its sister platform WhatsApp became fully encrypted the same year following the integration of Signal Protocol into the application.
Facebook has announced the rollout of end-to-end encrypted Messenger voice and video calls five years after making it available in one-on-one text chats. End-to-end encryption is used by most popular communication and collaboration platforms, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, as well as Facebook's WhatsApp.
Apple's announcement that it would scan encrypted messages for evidence of child sexual abuse has revived debate on online encryption and privacy, raising fears the same technology could be used for government surveillance. The move represents a major shift for Apple, which has until recently resisted efforts to weaken its encryption that prevents third parties from seeing private messages.
The facts aren't news, but Zoom will pay $85M - to the class-action attorneys, and to users - for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user data to Facebook and Google without consent. The proposed settlement would generally give Zoom users $15 or $25 each and was filed Saturday at US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Arqit released the first version of its service, QuantumCloud 1.0. This Platform‑as‑a‑Service software enables customers to secure the communications channels and data of any cloud, edge or...
A new version of the LockBit 2.0 ransomware has been found that automates the encryption of a Windows domain using Active Directory group policies. After ransomware topics were banned on hacking forums [1, 2], LockBit began promoting the new LockBit 2.0 ransomware-as-a-service operation on their data leak site.
Unbound Security announced its partnership with HashiCorp to deliver a fully integrated encryption key management solution for enterprises. "This integration streamlines guarding secrets and key management and offers customers a seamless solution to meet their secrets management needs, that is underpinned by centralized key management which delivers the highest levels of security," said Asvin Ramesh, senior director, technology alliances at HashiCorp. HashiCorp Vault protects secrets and sensitive data across multiple clouds, systems, and endpoints.
A study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal images on popular cloud photo services, such as those from Google, Apple, Flickr and others, all without requiring any changes to - or trust in - those services. Cloud photo services currently not compatible with image encryption.
These two threats already combine to make common encryption less secure than we like to believe and with the power of quantum computing, it will only get worse. Shor's algorithm can use quantum computing to factor large RSA numbers exponentially faster than any other method and it doesn't require a full-scale general purpose quantum computer.
Ubiq Security announced that it was awarded a SBIR contract with the U.S. Army DEVCOM. Ubiq's platform will be utilized to help deliver highly efficient, more scalable, and innovative encryption capabilities. Ubiq's API-based encryption platform uses a cloud-based model to deliver encryption and centralized key management capabilities, addressing challenges the Department of Defense commands are currently facing.