Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2019

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the debate over whether the government should require technology firms to use weak encryption for messaging applications.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Government Can Force Technology Companies to Break Encryption Australia's Parliament has passed new laws enabling it to compel technology companies to break their own encryption. Although the government argued the laws are needed to combat criminal activity and terrorism, opponents argued the powers could creep beyond their scope and weaken the security of all software

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After Arresting Phantom Secure CEO, Authorities Reportedly Saw Secrets for Sale The Canadian government has arrested a senior intelligence official on charges of working as a mole.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 22, 2020

Technology Giant Didn't Want to 'Poke the Bear,' Sources Tell Reuters Apple previously scuttled plans add end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups, Reuters reports, noting that such a move would have complicated law enforcement investigations.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? The disturbing thing is that in North America and Europe more and more arguments are being raised in support of creating and maintaining encryption backdoors for government use. Here are excerpts edited for clarity and space: LW: What’s wrong with granting governments the ability to break encryption?

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Schneier on Security

MAY 7, 2018

Last month, Wired published a long article about Ray Ozzie and his supposed new scheme for adding a backdoor in encrypted devices. The public key goes into the processor and the device, and is used to encrypt whatever user key encrypts the data.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2020

This is new from Reuters: More than two years ago, Apple told the FBI that it planned to offer users end-to-end encryption when storing their phone data on iCloud, according to one current and three former FBI officials and one current and one former Apple employee.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leave s a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. SecurityAffairs – encryption, hacking). The post Apple Mail stores parts of encrypted emails in plaintext DB appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 27, 2018

The IEEE came out in favor of strong encryption: IEEE supports the use of unfettered strong encryption to protect confidentiality and integrity of data and communications. Governments have legitimate law enforcement and national security interests.

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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.

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IG Guru

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The order of banning WhatsApp use by the provincial government has been taken in light of a decision taken in a meeting of the Cabinet Division on January 31. The post Punjab bans use of WhatsApp in government offices via The Express Tribune appeared first on IG GURU.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. What is the purpose of Enterprise Key Management if Slack really encrypts the data? Slack currently encrypts your data in transit and at rest.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Apple is bowing to pressure from the Chinese government and storing encryption keys in China. apple china cloudcomputing encryption iphone keyescrow privacy

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

One sliver of the $90 billion, or so, companies are expected to spend this year on cybersecurity products and services is an estimated $85 million they will shell out for encrypted flash drives. DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. The encryption in our products is handled by a chip inside the actual hardware itself.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Six months since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into force, pseudonymisation and data encryption remain the only technology measures specifically mentioned in the famously technology-agnostic Regulation. But what exactly is meant by ‘pseudonymisation’ and ‘encryption’?

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Officials say they are concerned about their ability to fight crime and protect citizens, while privacy advocates remain critical of government interference. Cryptography Facebook Privacy Attorney General William Barr Consumer Privacy Encryption Instagram internet Mark Zuckerberg messaging private messaging WhatsApp

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Dark Reading

MARCH 19, 2018

Crumple Zones' in crypto mechanisms can make it possible - but astronomically expensive - to access encrypted data, say researchers from Boston University and Portland State University

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Thales eSecurity

JANUARY 17, 2019

Modern encryption can trace its root back to before WWII when Alan Turing built a modern computer in order to break the Enigma. We’ve also seen promising approaches, such as homomorphic encryption, come out of academia that have yet to find common practice in real-world applications.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 2, 2018

Collateral damage is already being felt by the likes of Signal, a popular, encrypted-messaging app blocked by some governments

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A US health system is forced to settle as a result of not encrypting mobile phones. The post Failure to encrypt mobile devices results in $3 million HIPAA settlement appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the source or the report here. Photo by Yura Fresh on Unsplash.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 10, 2018

The debate over the government's authority to access private encrypted data on digital devices was amplified when the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray called unbreakable encryption an 'urgent public safety issue.'. Cryptography Government Mobile Security Privacy Android Smartphones apple Christopher Wray Electronic Frontier Foundation FBI Director Christopher Wray Federal Bureau of Investigation Going Dark.

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InfoGoTo

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Most people recognize that basic encryption is vital to protecting the organization. But, what is basic encryption? Here are some basic encryption words and phrases for everyone to use with confidence. Ciphertext is encrypted text. Encryption and decryption keys lock and unlock encrypted data, respectively. Data encryption uses math to scramble and encode text so that no one can read it. Encryption Standards. •

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef. In 1939, just before Germany was invading Poland, the British government received an Enigma machine from Polish code breakers.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Two years on since the first draft, the final act of the legislative passage saga of the long-awaited People’s Republic of China Encryption Law ended with its passage on 26 October 2019. To read Hogan Lovells’ The grand “finale” of China’s Encryption Law, click here.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 11, 2019

UK, and Australia: Weak Encryption Puts Billions of Internet Users at Risk. government information security privacy SecurityThe Open Technology Institute has an Open Letter to Law Enforcement in the U.S., press release , letter.) I am pleased to be one of the signers. In closely related news, nominations for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies are open.

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Thales eSecurity

MARCH 28, 2018

Cloud providers have done a good job of integrating default encryption services within their core infrastructure. However, as discussed in previous blogs , the encryption service is only as secure as the keys that are used to encrypt the data.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 19, 2019

The local governments and agencies from twenty-three Texas towns were hit by a coordinated ransomware campaign last week. . The ransomware deployed is known is.JSE and typically works by encrypting files and appending the suffix “.jse.”.JSE

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 15, 2020

Remember back in 2016 when Apple with in a court battle with the Department of Justice over giving investigators access to encrypted data on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters? Now, Apple is in a new dispute with the government again over the same issue.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Two years on since the first draft, the final act of the legislative passage saga of the long-awaited People’s Republic of China Encryption Law ended with its passage on 26 October 2019. To read Hogan Lovells’ The grand “finale” of China’s Encryption Law, click here.

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Thales eSecurity

JANUARY 18, 2018

With the increase of malicious behaviors, governments across the globe have strengthened their policies as to enterprise and cloud provider responsibilities to add stronger data security controls, especially for data in the cloud. The post Does Encryption Really Protect My Cloud Data?

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 7, 2018

A newly-passed Australian law could allow the government to force tech companies to create backdoors in their products. Government Hacks Privacy assistance and access act EternalBlue government surveillance tech

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The new PRC Encryption Law will come into force on 1 January 2020. It will bring fundamental changes to the sale, import and use of encryption technologies in China by foreign and domestic organizations. This contrasts with the previous regulatory focus just on encryption products.

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erwin

JULY 12, 2019

In light of recent, high-profile data breaches, it’s past-time we re-examined strategic data governance and its role in managing regulatory requirements. Govern PII “at rest”. Govern PII “in motion”.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2019

Crooks behind the attacks against Texas governments are now demanding $2.5 million to allow victims to access encrypted data. The cybercriminals behind the wave of attacks that hit 23 Texas governments are now demanding $2.5 million to allow victims to access encrypted data.

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Adam Levin

JULY 19, 2019

The Kazakhstan government is intercepting all HTTPS-encrypted internet traffic within its borders. Once installed, this certificate allows the government to decrypt and analyze all incoming internet traffic. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

A white hat hacker discovered how to break Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for officials and politicians. It aims at replacing popular instant messaging services like Telegram and WhatsApp for government people.

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InfoGovNuggets

JANUARY 21, 2019

“India Wants Access to Encrypted WhatsApp Messages,” The Wall Street Journal , January 16, 2019. Government wants access to the encrypted messages of its citizens. Encryption of information is troubling to governments generally. Can the NSA break the WhatsApp encryption? Theme One: Information Theme Three: Compliance Theme Two: Governance

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