A decision by Austria’s data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does not bode well for use of US cloud services in Europe. The decision raises a big red flag over routine use of tools that require transferring Europeans’ personal data to the US for processing […]
NBC: ‘You Probably Don’t Need to Rely on a VPN Anymore’
NBC News writes:
VPNs, or virtual private networks, continue to be used by millions of people as a way of masking their internet activity by encrypting their location and web traffic. But on the modern internet, most people can safely ditch them, thank…
FBI Document Shows What Data Can Be Obtained From Encrypted Messaging Apps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Record: A recently discovered FBI training document shows that US law enforcement can gain limited access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services like iMessage, Line, and WhatsApp…
Collins Dictionary が選ぶ 2021 年を代表する言葉は「NFT」
Collins Dictionary は 11 月 24 日、2021 年を代表する言葉「Word of the Year 2021」として「NFT」を選んだと発表した。 (Collins Dictionary Language Blog の記事、 Neowin の記事、 Mashable の記事、 Ars Technica の記事)。
NFT は Non-Fungible Token (代替不可能なトークン) の頭字語で、Collins Dictionary では略語として「アートワークやコレク…
Meta Delays Encrypted Messages on Facebook and Instagram To 2023
The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users’ messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection. From a report: Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire has bee…
Equity Monday: Paytm’s rocky debut gets rockier
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Happy Monday everyone, and welcome to a holiday week here in the United States. Yes, we here in the good ol’ States will be off the second half of this week. TechCrunch won’t […]
US says Iran-backed hackers are now targeting organizations with ransomware
The U.S. government, along with counterparts in Australia and the U.K, have warned that Iranian state-backed hackers are targeting U.S. organizations in critical infrastructure sectors — in some cases with ransomware. The rare warning linking Iran with ransomware landed in a joint advisory Wednesday, issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal […]
Hackers Are Stealing Data Today So Quantum Computers Can Crack It In a Decade
While they wrestle with the immediate danger posed by hackers today, US government officials are preparing for another, longer-term threat: attackers who are collecting sensitive, encrypted data now in the hope that they’ll be able to unlock it at some…
Google Fi is getting end-to-end encrypted phone calls
Android Fi-to-Fi calls will be encrypted by default through the normal phone app.
Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, raises trust and security questions over its e2e encryption
Frances Haugen, one of (now) multiple Facebook whistleblowers who have come forward in recent years with damning testimony related to product safety, gave testimony in front of the UK parliament today — where, in one key moment, she was invited to clarify her views on end-to-end encryption following a report in the British newspaper the […]