Apple’s latest transparency report puts some hard numbers on the number of law enforcement and government requests it receives for device and user data.
Messaging platform firm Viber is adding end-to-end encryption to 711 million of its users, becoming the latest tech firm to embrace encryption on a massive scale.
Apple and the FBI vow to work together to find compromise solution in encryption debate.
Tibetans along with journalists and human rights workers in Hong Kong and Taiwan have been targeted in campaigns using phishing emails laced with Microsoft RTF attachments that exploit four vulnerabilities.
Privacy advocates are cheering Microsoft’s lawsuit against the US government over data requests.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including the Badlock bust, encryption legislation, and cryptoworm ransomware. Mike also discusses last week’s Infiltrate Con.
In this Threatpost Op-Ed, Katie Moussouris explains the significance of the newly free availability of ISO Standard 29147 Vulnerability disclosure, and why it keeps an important dialogue open between hackers and industry.
While civil liberties advocates celebrate the defeat of California bill AB 1681, they caution that the fight to protect encryption from government regulation is not over.
Security and privacy advocates, along with IT business leaders, slam the Burr-Feinstein bill as misguided and detrimental to encryption.
Juniper Networks hopes to remove any clouds of uncertainty that its networking gear might still have a backdoor that could allow governments or hackers to snoop on traffic running through its hardware.
Hi folks! Onward we march on our Thames-side hike. The other day you got the first leg of this day’s walk (taking in a cable car ride + Greenwich and arriving at the Cutty Sark); here’s th...
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Hackers took control over several USA FM stations’ equipment and released a provocative podcast on the air.
It's not common that the ransomware criminals can be outsmarted. But sometimes they can be.
When we’re studying or conducting a project using a large amount of information we need somewhere to store the information. Sometimes our everyday household chores also need arranging. In the pr...
