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Google’s app store claims that their text-messaging app Google Messages means “conversations are end-to-end encrypted”.
“That is some serious bullshit,” argues tech blogger John Gruber:
It’s shamefully misleading regarding Google Messages’s support f… Continue reading Google Criticized for ‘Misleading’ Encryption Claims About Its Text-Messaging App
I have a server set up to run a PowerShell script every 15 minutes. This script needs to make API requests with keys and passwords. The script runs even when no user is logged in, so encryption based on the user profile wouldn’t make sense… Continue reading What’s the best method of securing keys/passwords used by a PowerShell script that runs when no user is logged in, using only one server, for free?
FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials have advised Americans to use encrypted call and messaging apps to protect their communications from threat actors that have – and will – burrow into the networks and… Continue reading 8 US telcos compromised, FBI advises Americans to use encrypted communications
As the era of quantum computing draws closer, businesses face a new and unprecedented threat to data security: “Q-day.” This looming turning point—when quantum machines can break traditional encryption with ease—has the potential to upend c… Continue reading Preparing for Q-day: The essential role of cloud migration in securing enterprise data
As the tokenized economy expands, the digital landscape is reshaped by decentralized systems and new forms of asset ownership. In this Help Net Security video, Jeremy Bradley, COO of Zama, explores the emerging privacy-preserving technologies that can … Continue reading Building trust in tokenized economies
Another day, another cybercrime operation shut down – this time, Europol has dismantled the MATRIX encrypted messaging service. Continue reading Authorities Take Down Criminal Encrypted Messaging Platform MATRIX
An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News:
Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon, U.S. officials have recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communica… Continue reading US Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps Amid Unprecedented Cyberattack
A joint investigation team involving French and Dutch authorities has taken down Matrix, yet another end-to-end encrypted chat service created for criminals. Matrix (Source: Dutch Police) The Matrix encrypted chat service Matrix – also know as Ma… Continue reading Police takes down Matrix encrypted chat service used by criminals
The certificate has the fields Signature algorithm and Signature hash algorithm, which determine what algorithm the certificate was signed with, and Public key, which determines what algorithm the information will be signed with, but how c… Continue reading How to determine hashing algorithm of a public key in the certificate?
I need to encrypt and decrypt some passwords in PHP. Normally I would hash them, but I need to be able to decrypt them again because they’re keys for an external service.
I googled around a bit, but the examples I found seem a little bit i… Continue reading Are my basic implemetations of AES-CBC and AES-GCM in PHP secure?