Tag: encryption

April 19, 2023

The internet is on nearly every device we own, whether it’s our phone, tablet, laptop or TV. It’s how we’re able to stream movies, play games and surf the web, and while it’s nice to have that access at our […]

November 28, 2022

Just days after announcing the close of its consumer-oriented Wickr Me encrypted messaging service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), at its annual re:Invent conference on Monday, said that it was making the enterprise version of the app generally available. Dubbed simply […]

October 31, 2022

I’m one of those people who depend on email communication. I have for years, and I cannot imagine I’ll ever not rely heavily on email. As I communicate with different people, I have to do so in different ways. For […]

June 28, 2022

I don’t know about you, but the amount of spam and possibly malicious SMS messages I receive these days is overwhelming. Daily, I probably receive anywhere from 20-50 such text messages on my Android device. Although stopping this altogether is […]

June 21, 2022

The technology industry (Apple, Google, Microsoft) ultimately wants to get rid of passwords with passkeys. Until then, the Google Password Manager is starting to offer on-device encryption so that “only you can see your passwords.” Today, the Google Password Manager […]

December 7, 2021

Reports about Pixel phones sent for repairs and then exploited by workers for personal information are circulating the internet. Game designer and author Jane McGonigal sent a Google Pixel 5a for repairs. She then found out that someone had accessed […]

June 16, 2021

Google Messages is finally getting end-to-end encryption, which means your messages will be secure from prying eyes. Google has been testing improved security for its Messages app since last year, but only a limited number of users had access to […]

September 20, 2019

Our digital selves, more and more, are becoming part of our full identity. The emails we send, the conversations we have over social media — both private and public — as well as photos we share, the videos we watch, […]

September 27, 2018

An interview with one of WhatsApp’s co-founders earlier this week confirmed that Brian Acton and Jan Koum left Facebook over huge differences with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s leadership about how WhatsApp should make money. The same article reveals that WhatsApp […]

August 23, 2018

Strong encryption of communications and data, which can both deliver security and privacy for individuals, has been in recent years a subject of public debate. Large-scale adoption of the technology made it difficult for the intelligence and law enforcement communities […]

November 29, 2017

As the value of cryptocurrencies continues to skyrocket nearly across the board, hackers and scammers are stealing digital money from unsuspecting victims in all sorts of new and interesting ways. One method uses fake apps that steal credentials, but according […]

April 7, 2017

Do you want to play a game? That’s the question posed by a novel piece of ransomware that challenges victims to achieve a high score in a video game instead of demanding cash to unlock files. Yeah. “Minamitsu ‘The Captain’ Murasa […]

July 5, 2016

We may have thought that Android is just as safe as the iPhone when it comes to encryption, but it looks like Google’s Android operating system has a critical flaw that can be exploited to decrypt a device. Even worse, while […]

April 1, 2016

Apple’s next big encryption battle with the federal government appears to be unfolding in a largely secret court case in Massachusetts involving an FBI bust of a gang called the Columbia Point Dawgz. Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed […]

March 16, 2016

A large number of the Internet’s major websites still don’t use encryption, or haven’t implemented it correctly, potentially exposing their users to hackers and spies. Despite a widespread movement toward more encryption on the web, which is commonly referred to […]

March 4, 2016

While Apple is fighting the FBI in court over encryption, Amazon quietly disabled the option to use encryption to protect data on its Android-powered devices. The tech giant has recently deprecated support for device encryption on the latest version of […]

February 24, 2016

As Apple continues to resist FBI demands to unlock a terrorist suspect’s phone, it raises a question: What if Amazon Web Services was ordered to provide access to a customer’s cloud? Would AWS hand the data over to the feds? […]

August 7, 2015

When IT professionals talk about secure data transfers, the discussion invariably turns to virtual private networks (VPN). While there are various ways to send data securely from one network to another, the VPN is often the default approach. However, a […]

July 8, 2015

Here’s what you need to know in tech today. 1. It looks like Apple Watch sales are tanking. Apple hasn’t broken out specific sales figures for its new smartwatch, but analytics firm Slice Intelligence thinks they have plummeted to around […]

March 3, 2015

When Android 5.0 Lollipop launched, Google proudly claimed that full-disk encryption was a standard feature , enabled by default. But now phones with the OS are starting to appear in the wild, that appears not to be the case. Google […]