At Disrupt SF 2018, Facebook’s soon-to-be-former chief security officer Alex Stamos will join us to chat about his tenure in the top security role for the world’s biggest social network, how it feels to have weathered some of the biggest security and privacy scandals to ever hit the tech industry and securing U.S. elections in […]
View More Outgoing Facebook CSO Alex Stamos will join Disrupt SF to talk cybersecurityCategory: encryption
What can we learn from the Dixons data breach that blew up after disclosure
European consumer electronics retailer Dixons Carphone’s apologetic admission yesterday that a 2017 data breach was in fact considerably worse than it first reported suggests disclosures of major breaches could get a bit more messy — at least under the early reign of the region’s tough new data protection framework, GDPR — as organizations scramble to comply with […]
View More What can we learn from the Dixons data breach that blew up after disclosureWhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 people
WhatsApp has added a much-requested new feature after it began to allow users to make group voice and video calls. It’s been just over three years since the company, which is owned by Facebook, introduced voice calls and later a video option one year later. Today, WhatsApp counts over 1.5 billion monthly users and it says […]
View More WhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 peopleProtonMail now supports PGP encryption with other clients
ProtonMail is arguably the easiest way to send end-to-end encrypted emails. But encryption only works by default with other ProtonMail users. The company is adding full PGP support so that you can send and receive encrypted emails with people who use other apps and services. ProtonMail is pretty much like iMessage or WhatsApp, but for […]
View More ProtonMail now supports PGP encryption with other clientsVirtu teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google Drive
Virtu, which is best known for its email encryption service for both enterprises and consumers, is announcing a partnership with Google today that will bring the company’s encryption technology to Google Drive. Only a few years ago, the company was still bolting its solution on top of Gmail without Google’s blessing, but these days, Google […]
View More Virtu teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google DriveGoogle Chrome is ready to public shame any website still not using HTTPS
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You may soon start to see a slew of warnings about how some of your favorite websites are “not secure.”
With the latest release of the Google Chrome web browser, Chrome 68, the search giant is taking a hardline stance when it comes to websites that aren’t using HTTPS. Chrome is labeling all sites using HTTP as “not secure” in the browsers address bar. Google made the announcement in a blog post titled “A milestone for Chrome security.”
In essence, Google is public shaming websites that still aren’t using HTTPS with this move. With HTTPS, the data sent between your browser and the website you visit is encrypted. When connecting to a “not secure” website using that uses simple HTTP, hackers can intercept any data passing through. In doing so, hackers can inject malware or make off with your personal data. Read more…
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View More Google Chrome is ready to public shame any website still not using HTTPSChrome rolls out for all users ‘not secure’ markers on unencrypted pages
Google officially announced version 68 of the Chrome browser today, formalizing its plans to fulfill its past pledge to mark all unencrypted (non-HTTPS) pages as “not secure.” This move comes nearly two years after Chrome announced its slow-burning plan to promote the use of secured (HTTPS) pages across the browser. In previous updates, the browser […]
View More Chrome rolls out for all users ‘not secure’ markers on unencrypted pagesThe quantum meltdown of encryption
Shlomi Dolev Contributor Shlomi Dolev is the Chair Professor and founder of the Computer Science department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Self-Stabilization. Shlomi also is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief scientist of Secret Double Octopus. More posts by this contributor The quantum computing apocalypse is imminent […]
View More The quantum meltdown of encryptionApple’s officially making it harder for cops to bust into your iPhone
Score one for privacy.
Apple intends to update its iOS with a new feature that will make it significantly more difficult for law enforcement agencies to access data on locked iPhones. While we learned last month that something similar was in th…
The erosion of Web 2.0
It seems quaint to imagine now but the original vision for the web was not an information superhighway. Instead, it was a newspaper that fed us only the news we wanted. This was the central thesis brought forward in the late 1990s and prophesied by thinkers like Bill Gates – who expected a beautiful, customized […]
View More The erosion of Web 2.0Virtru secures $37 million Series B led by Iconiq
Virtru, the security startup that came out of research at the NSA, announced a $37 million Series B financing round today led by Iconiq Capital. The company also announced the formation of Virtru Labs, an entity to be led by company co-founder and CTO Will Ackerly. The Lab will act as an innovation engine for […]
View More Virtru secures $37 million Series B led by IconiqFBI reportedly overestimated inaccessible encrypted phones by thousands
The FBI seems to have been caught fibbing again on the topic of encrypted phones. FBI director Christopher Wray estimated in December that it had almost 7,800 phones that investigators were unable to access from 2017 alone. The real number is likely less than a quarter of that.
View More FBI reportedly overestimated inaccessible encrypted phones by thousands