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Samsung Encryption Flaw

Schneier on Security

Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100 million Samsung Galaxy phones. Here are the details: As we discussed in Section 3, the wrapping key used to encrypt the key blobs (HDK) is derived using a salt value computed by the Keymaster TA. GSM needs a new nonce for every encryption. News article.

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Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection

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Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection madhav Wed, 04/17/2024 - 05:22 Our last blog Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat described the ever dangerous and evolving cybersecurity threat of ransomware. Because ransomware does not care about your data.

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Google Releases Basic Homomorphic Encryption Tool

Schneier on Security

From a Wired article : Private Join and Compute uses a 1970s methodology known as "commutative encryption" to allow data in the data sets to be encrypted with multiple keys, without it mattering which order the keys are used in. Boing Boing article.

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Belgian Council of State Considers Encryption a Sufficient Measure for U.S. Data Transfers

Hunton Privacy

In reaching its decision, the Council of State took into account the Guidelines issued by the European Data Protection Board on supplementary measures and an opinion issued by the Flemish Supervisory Commission, and concluded that encryption is a valid supplementary measure to transfer data to the U.S.

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Apple says it would remove iMessage and FaceTime in the UK rather than break end-to-end encryption via 9TO5MAC

IG Guru

Check out the article here. The post Apple says it would remove iMessage and FaceTime in the UK rather than break end-to-end encryption via 9TO5MAC first appeared on IG GURU.

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Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption

Schneier on Security

Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message services to provide plaintext messages on demand, basically outlawing strong end-to-end encryption. Anyone not complying will be blocked, although the article doesn't say how.

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Chat control: The latest EU plans to outlaw encryption and introduce telecommunications surveillance via Mailbox.org

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Check out the article here. The post Chat control: The latest EU plans to outlaw encryption and introduce telecommunications surveillance via Mailbox.org appeared first on IG GURU.