Canada on Monday banned popular Chinese messaging app WeChat and Russian platform Kaspersky from government smartphones and other mobile devices, citing privacy and security risks. The suite of applications would be immediately removed from government-issued devices and users will be blocked from downloading them in the future, said a statement. Treasury Board President Anita Anand, ..
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Apple on Friday introduced contact key verification, a new capability meant to improve the security of its iMessage service. To ensure the privacy of conversations, iMessage offers end-to-end encryption, so that only the sender and receiver can read a message, and relies on sets of encryption keys, where public keys are stored on a key ..
panorios/Getty Images reader comments 136 with Jeremy Wright was the first of five UK ministers charged with pushing through the British government’s landmark legislation on regulating the Internet, the Online Safety Bill. The current UK government likes to brand its initiatives as “world-beating,” but for a brief period in 2019 that might have been right. ..
Enlarge / Private Wi-Fi address setting on an iPhone. reader comments 87 with Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised. Despite promises that this never-changing address would ..
Privacy-focused messaging firm Signal is pouring cold water on widespread rumors of a zero-day exploit in its popular encrypted chat app. “We have seen the vague viral reports alleging a Signal 0-day vulnerability. After responsible investigation *we have no evidence that suggests this vulnerability is real* nor has any additional info been shared via our ..
Enlarge / The 23andMe logo displayed on a smartphone screen. reader comments 140 with Genetic profiling service 23andMe has commenced an investigation after private user data was been scraped off its website Friday’s confirmation comes five days after an unknown entity took to an online crime forum to advertise the sale of private information for ..
SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we will curate and present ..
A group of academic researchers has devised a technique to extract sounds from still images captured using smartphone cameras with rolling shutter and movable lens structures. The movement of camera hardware, such as the Complementary Metal-oxide–Semiconductor (CMOS) rolling shutters and the moving lenses used for Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and Auto Focus (AF), create sounds ..
Federal spy agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program, a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended on Thursday. The recommendation came in a report from a three-member Democratic majority of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency ..
British lawmakers have approved an ambitious but controversial new internet safety law with wide-ranging powers to crack down on digital and social media companies like TikTok, Google, and Facebook and Instagram parent Meta. The government says the online safety bill passed this week will make Britain the safest place in the world to be online. ..
