Chrome 93 will be rolling out later today. It removes support for the 3DES cipher suite and adds better support for multi-screen window placement. Google has also started to develop WebOTP on desktop.
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Facebook has added the option to make audio and video calls to Messenger's end-to-end encrypted secret conversation. The firm is now looking to allow secret conversations for group chats.
Apple has provided more details about its child safety photo scanning technologies that have been drawing some fire from critics. It has also described the end-to-end flow of its review process.
In an internal memo, Apple's Software VP has acknowledged that people are worried about the company scanning iCloud Photos for child sex abuse material, but says that this is due to misunderstandings.
Zoom has agreed to pay $86 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. The allegations included breach of customer data privacy and poor security standards that allowed zoombombing.
Ring has ended the technical preview for the video end-to-end encryption feature it launched earlier this year for its video doorbells. The feature is now available worldwide on select Ring doorbells.
Google Messages is finally rolling out end-to-end encryption for everyone after a beta test that kicked off in November of last year has ended. For now, it supports only one-on-one conversations.
Organizations can now use Microsoft 365 Customer Key with Teams, allowing them to encrypt certain data on the tool. Unfortunately, encryption of historical data is not supported as of yet.
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Microsoft and Intel will help DARPA develop technology that allows computations to be performed on encrypted data. It's too intensive to do this today but DARPA hopes to crack the problem.
Ring has started rolling out video end-to-end encryption to compatible doorbells and security cameras. However, the company's battery-powered video doorbells and cameras are not eligible.
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Zoom has announced that users will be able to use end-to-end encryption from next week. It will solicit feedback for 30 days after launch to help weed out any issues that people run into.
The EFF has said that the recent Twitter breach further highlights the need for direct messages to be end-to-end encrypted. The firm, two years ago, told Senator Wyden it would add the feature.
The National Crime Agency and international agencies have punched holes in UK criminal networks after an encrypted messenger app, EncroChat, was decrypted. Over 700 arrests have been made in the UK.
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Zoom announced today a new set of updates designed to beef up security and privacy of its video conferencing service. Among other things, Zoom now supports encryption and adds more call controls.
Proton Technologies has released the ProtonMail Bridge app for Linux. Bridge allows you to use a desktop e-mail client to access your ProtonMail account. It's already available on macOS and Windows.
HTC and ProtonMail have partnered up to ship the latter's email client on HTC Exodus and Exodus 1s devices. This will introduce more people to the encrypted email service and boost their privacy.
ProtonMail has introduced DKIM key management in beta. It allows users to manually switch the DKIM keys to protect against spoofing. It's recommended that you update the key every 6 months.
Today, WhatsApp announced that it has reached more than two billion users on a global scale. The Facebook-owned messaging service also highlights its ongoing effort to bolster end-to-end encryption.
Proton Technologies has launched ProtonCalendar in beta for paying customers. The service is pitched as an alternative to Google Calendar that encrypts event titles, descriptions, locations, and more.
To show that its statements regarding data protection and privacy are valid, Tresorit has chosen to undergo a third-party security evaluation from EY. The company has now published the findings.
Microsoft, Google, Apple, and WhatsApp along with many civil society groups have jointly called on the UK's GCHQ to abandon plans to provide law enforcement access to encrypted messages.
ProtonMail users can now upgrade their inboxes to user elliptic curve cryptography which enhances the inbox's speed and security. New users will automatically begin using elliptic curve cryptography.
Mozilla has just released Firefox Send, an end-to-end encrypted file sharing service. The former-Test Pilot service is free but more features are unlocked for those logged into a Firefox Account.
Russia has blocked the sending and receiving of email via encrypted email service ProtonMail and 25 other email providers after accusing them of facilitating bomb threats in the country.
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Google has developed Adiantum, a new technique for encrypting local data on low-end devices which lack dedicated hardware to run AES. This will benefit next-generation phones, smartwatches, and TVs.
The ProtonMail team has announced version 3.15 bringing with it handy features such as read receipts, address typo alerts, and contact groups to save you time compiling recipient lists.
While there are currently no known vulnerabilities in TLS 1.0 and 1.1, Microsoft plans to end support for these old protocols in supported versions of Microsoft Edge and IE 11 by 2020.
Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple will jointly throw their weight behind a lobbying effort to oppose Australia's proposed law seeking to gain access to encrypted data of suspected criminals.
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ProtonMail has confirmed that it worked with law enforcement to help apprehend George Duke-Cohan, one of the members involved with Apophis Squad that has been attacking ProtonMail this summer.
ProtonMail's OpenPGPjs encryption library has just received a positive audit from the security firm Cure53. The auditor said there were no major issues and that it was only limited by JavaScript.
ProtonMail has been updated on desktop and on mobile to include support for address verification and PGP. With PGP, ProtonMail users can securely email non-ProtonMail users if they, too, use PGP.
Jan Koum has announced that he is leaving Facebook after a disagreement between him and the firm broke out over the matter of encryption. Facebook wants to weaken the encryption in WhatsApp.
The Russian media regulator has filed a lawsuit against the messaging app Telegram after its parent company failed to hand over the encryption keys for the app. The app may be blocked as a result.
Wladimir Palant, the developer behind AdBlock Plus, has taken Mozilla to task over the way Firefox hashes master passwords to generate the encryption key used to protect stored passwords.
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