Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Twitter is reportedly working on finally adding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages (DMs) exchanged between users on the social media platform. [.].

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk has been very vocal about how he wants to revolutionize the social media platform, saying he aims to make it the "voice of the people." One of the new features he hopes to add to Twitter, sooner rather than later, is end-to-end encryption for direct messages (DMs).

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The social media companies Facebook and Reddit are publicizing “War Rooms” set up to closely monitor their network content for election tampering. For one instance, Facebook’s WhatsApp platform provides a simple work-around: Because it is encrypted, any content forwarded would not be visible to these “war rooms.”.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Meta has once again reaffirmed its plans to roll out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Meta Platforms on Monday announced that it has started to expand global testing of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger chats by default. The social media behemoth said it intends to notify

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 20, 2021

Telegram made it official that it has offered a security fix to non-encrypted chats that were previously vulnerable to cyber attacks through manipulated bots. Although all messages are encrypted on Telegram, the MTProto encryption is not available by default, as users need to opt-in for the end-to-end encryption.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

American media conglomerate Cox Media Group (CMG) was hit by a ransomware attack that took down live TV and radio broadcast streams in June 2021. The American media conglomerate Cox Media Group (CMG) announced it was hit by a ransomware attack that caused the interruption of the live TV and radio broadcast streams in June 2021.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 suffered a security breach and hackers asked for a “donation” to provide information on the flaws they exploited in the attack. E27 described itself as Asia’s largest Tech media platform, it offers Asian technology startup news and a community where members can exchange opinions.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

Intel Labs announced an initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create hardware that accelerates how computers process homomorphic encryption. Homomorphic encryption addresses a weakness in normal encryption – that being, the need for data to be decrypted before a computer can perform operations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2022

Ireland Health Service (HSE) was cyber-attacked by CONTI Ransomware group in mid last year and news is now out that 80% of the data been stored on the servers of the healthcare services provider was encrypted by the said a gang of criminals. And the result on whether the information truly belonged to HSE is awaited! .

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SC Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Facebook is among the companies that would like to incorporate end-to-end encryption to benefit users. United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to tell a conference of child protection activists that end-to-end encryption puts children at risk, according to a draft invitation seen by Wired UK.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. The researchers conducted five separate encryption speed tests in a controlled environment (with 6 CPUs, 8192MB RAM, SSD, and 220000 files to be encrypted), limited to local drive encryption only.

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We Live Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The post WhatsApp announces end‑to‑end encrypted backups appeared first on WeLiveSecurity. The Facebook-owned messaging service plans to roll out the feature to both iOS and Android users in the coming weeks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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We Live Security

MARCH 9, 2021

While chats are end-to-end encrypted, their backups are not – this may change soon. The post WhatsApp may soon roll out encrypted chat backups appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2022

It encrypts the most common file types: videos, documents, photos, databases. The catch: you have to film and upload these good deeds to social media. To be clear: criminals are asking victims of crime to humiliate themselves on social media to recover things stolen from them. Hunting for GoodWill. Because it should.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

No matter how reliant we ultimately become on cloud storage and streaming media, it’s hard to image consumers ever fully abandoning removable storage devices. Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Jay Kim, co-founder and CEO DataLocker, did.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 16, 2024

Bank breaches and the banking world are now a front line in cybersecurity, where hidden networks thrive in the shadows of the dark web and encrypted chats. As technology advances, the dangers of bank hacks grow, transforming old-school bank robbers into modern cyber thieves who operate from behind screens worldwide.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

New research by Thales on security trends one year into the pandemic found that about 50% of businesses say that they store more than 40% of their data in external cloud environments, but only 17% have encrypted at least half of their sensitive data in the cloud. For example, 33% of health care respondents say they encrypt their data.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Government threats to end-to-end encryption—the technology that secures your messages and shared photos and videos—have been around for decades, but the most recent threats to this technology are unique in how they intersect with a broader, sometimes-global effort to control information on the Internet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2019

Media File Jacking – Security researchers at Symantec demonstrated how to manipulate media files that can be received via WhatsApp and Telegram Android apps. “The security flaw, dubbed “Media File Jacking”, affects WhatsApp for Android by default, and Telegram for Android if certain features are enabled.”

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SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

The media routinely report incidents and leaks of data that end up publicly accessible on the dark web. Media blackmail: businesses to learn they were hacked from hackers’ public posts with a countdown to publication. These add up to 144 million annually. Digitalization brings increased cybersecurity risks with it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

For many years, encryption has been viewed as a burden on businesses – expensive, complex and of questionable value. While 97% of IT experts indicated they are going through some type of digital transformation, only 30% have adopted an encryption strategy. Enter encryption. Originally published in TEISS on May 1, 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Reports Tuesday that Apple had become Google’s largest customer of cloud data services – and that the iCloud data was encrypted by Apple – was viewed as a positive development by some security researchers, who said more companies need to take the shared responsibility model with cloud service providers (CSPs) seriously.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 14, 2021

From remote work and social media to ergonomics and encryption, TechRepublic has dozens of ready-made, downloadable IT policy templates.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 26, 2021

MACsec, defined by IEEE standard 802.1AE , delivers line-rate encryption throughput for high-speed Ethernet and plays a key role in authenticating and encrypting packets between two MACsec-capable devices at Layer 2. It has become an important encryption technology that is now shipped with next-generation chips, routers and switches.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2022

Elon Musk Wants End-to-End Encryption for Twitter Direct Messages: Too soon or Too Late? Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your messages,” Musk said in a tweet. E2EE encrypts data between a sender and receiver so that no third party can access it. brooke.crothers.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

Subsequent to-and-fro suggests they don’t see it as a social media anti pattern, comments from the masses? UK Based, Free Let's Encrypt SSL, starting at just £50 a year. Long story short, they remained defiant so I put the question out to the masses: Friends - how do you view this tactic by @NodestackUK ?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Tutanota , the popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email software, has been blocked by Russian authorities. The popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email service Tutanota has been blocked in Russia on Friday evening. ” states Tutanota. reported the Associated Press. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Errata Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

The report says: analysis revealed that the suspect video had been delivered via an encrypted downloader host on WhatsApp’s media server. Due to WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption , the contents of the downloader cannot be practically determined. Now let's talk about "end-to-end encryption". Here's an example.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Storage Costs of Encrypted Data. SEDs do not protect data against server breaches.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

OpenSSL Patches New Bug Targeting Encryption [Lessons from Heartbleed]. A flaw in the encryption algorithm used to underpin OpenSSL was exploited, triggering an infinite number of requests when certain input value(s) are used. Encryption must be encrypted. Concerned About Social Media Hijacks? brooke.crothers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 5, 2023

From social media platforms to online shopping and banking, we share a wealth of personal information that can be vulnerable to misuse or exploitation. Enable 2FA whenever available, especially for sensitive accounts like email, banking, and social media. This helps prevent unauthorized access even if your password is compromised.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In a move that could bring some relief to organizations looking to secure their cloud migrations, Amazon Web Services on Friday announced that it had acquired Wickr, provider of secure end-to-end encryption and communications platform. government agencies, it could help strengthen AWS’ position in the public sector.”.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Privacy and security advocates may be forced to battle it out on the Senate floor to stop a newly introduced bill that will help law enforcement get past encryption. New backdoor bill in Congress hits encryption debate head on. The question: should encrypted communication be out of law enforcement's reach?

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device — including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps — can be tracked and monitored.

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