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Meta has announced that the immediate availability of end-to-end encryption for all chats and calls made through the Messenger app, as well as the Facebook social media platform.E2EE has been available in the Messenger app as an optional feature called "Secret Conversations" since 2016 but Meta says it now enables it by default for all users as an additional layer of security.
Meta has officially begun to roll out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger for personal calls and one-to-one personal messages by default in what it called the "most significant...
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A set of encryption algorithms used to secure emergency radio communications will enter the public domain after an about-face by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. The algorithms are used by TETRA - short for the Terrestrial Trunked Radio protocol - and they are operated by governments, law enforcement, military and emergency services organizations in Europe, the UK, and other countries.
Windows 11 will let admins mandate SMB client encryption for all outbound connections, starting with today's Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25982 rolling out to Insiders in the Canary Channel. SMB encryption provides data end-to-end encryption and can be enabled on a per-share basis for the entire file server or when mapping drives using Windows Admin Center, Windows PowerShell, or UNC Hardening.
Element, one of the companies behind decentralized comms platform Matrix, says customers are asking it to insert a protective clause from the encryption-busting element of UK government's Online Safety Bill. Civil liberty campaigners aren't best pleased with the direction of travel, and Matthew Hodgeson, Matrix technical co-founder and Element CEO, has himself been a vocal opponent of the encryption component of OSB. He told us last month: "The government saying 'no scanning until it's technically feasible' is nonsense. Scanning is fundamentally incompatible with end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. Scanning bypasses the encryption in order to scan, exposing your messages to attackers."
Microsoft warned customers this week of incorrect BitLocker drive encryption errors being shown in some managed Windows environments. The issue also only impacts environments where drive encryption is enforced for OS and fixed drives.
The second day of announcements at Intel's Innovation event in San Jose, California focused on privacy and security, including confidential AI. Major announcements included an attestation service for Intel Trust Authority and a software toolkit for fully homomorphic encryption. An attestation service will join the Intel Trust Authority, a security assessment platform released in 2022.
Signal has announced that it upgraded its end-to-end communication protocol to use quantum-resistant encryption keys to protect users from future attacks. For communication apps, like Signal, that use end-to-end encryption to protect communication between two parties, the concern is that encrypted communications can be intercepted and deciphered to expose the contents of the communication.
Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced an update to the Signal Protocol to add support for quantum resistance by upgrading the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman (X3DH) specification to...