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Carmel DeAmicis Dec 8, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Update app, get back on track

Yik Yak shown no slack in intern hack attack

Getting hacked seems to be a rite of passage for social media companies. It’s sign that they’ve grown big enough to attract…

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Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Dec 5, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Broken for one, broken for all

US lawmaker pushes back against FBI backdoor calls

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has introduced a bill that would stymie almost any attempt by a government agency to force device…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Dec 4, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- New ways to make us less safe?

NSA spies on carriers to break call encryption, report suggests

The NSA spies on the internal emails and documents of major mobile carriers and their industry body, the GSM Association, according to…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Jonathan Vanian Nov 20, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Ruling gives irked Bitcasa users more time to move their data

If you want to hold onto your Bitcasa infinite-drive data long enough to move it somewhere else, you'll need to pay Bitcasa $99 for an additional month, according to an order from U.S. District Judge William Alsup at a hearing in San Francisco on Wednesday.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Kif Leswing Nov 18, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

WhatsApp adds end-to-end encryption to its Android app

Whatsapp just got a whole lot more secure for Android users. On Tuesday, the company announced that it's added a strong encryption protocol to its Android app, which means that Whatsapp can no longer read your messages, even if compelled by law enforcement.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Jonathan Vanian Nov 18, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Veradocs lands $14 million to secure files in the cloud

Stealth-security startup Veradocs plans to announce Tuesday that it took in $14 million in two funding rounds, which includes a seed round when the company formed in January 2014. The startup wants to build out sales and marketing and expand its engineering team, said Veradocs co-founder and CEO Ajay Arora.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Jonathan Vanian Nov 12, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Amazon unveils key-management security tool that works on-premise and in the cloud

Amazon detailed on Wednesday a new security tool called Amazon Web Services Key Management Service (KMS) that lets folks manage their encryption keys for both applications and services on-premise and in the Amazon cloud. The new key management feature should be available in all of the AWS regions.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
David Meyer Nov 4, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

US tech firms help terrorists, says new UK spy chief. Maybe, but they also help the rest of us.

Like the FBI across the Atlantic, the British spy agency GCHQ is annoyed at the increasing security of tech products and services. But really, it's the people who should decide whether this is a good or bad thing.…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Jonathan Vanian Oct 17, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

How Facebook protects your account and passwords from hackers

By cross-checking stolen account information on websites that hackers post to, Facebook can update its users on whether or not their data has been compromised.…

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Technology
David Meyer Oct 6, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Pretty Easy Privacy project aims to make encryption easier for regular people to use

pEp is a user interface scheme that's designed to help users judge how secure their conversations are, and make them more secure with as little knowledge as possible.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Sep 29, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

CloudFlare activates free Universal SSL encryption for its customers’ websites

The firm is rolling out what it said it would roll out a couple months back, in a move that should provide better protection even for websites using CloudFlare's free services.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Sep 19, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Like iOS 8, Android L will reportedly make it harder for cops to access what’s on your phone

Google has told the Washington Post that the upcoming Android L will include encryption by default, in a way that won't let Google itself access what's on users' devices.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Janko Roettgers Sep 17, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

BitTorrent opens up Bleep alpha, releases Android and Mac apps for private text and voice chat

Want to call or message people in a secure fashion, without producing centrally logged metadata? BitTorrent wants to help with its new messaging client Bleep.…

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Technology
David Meyer Sep 3, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Open-Xchange launches open-source OX Guard encryption tool for its mail and storage apps

The tool doesn't solve certain fundamental problems around current encryption technology, but it is easy to use and probably a lot better than nothing.…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
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David Meyer Aug 7, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Google strengthens web encryption drive by making HTTPS a ranking issue

Gently at first but perhaps more strongly in the future, Google is now ranking up websites that use secure connections for their customers' communications and activities.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Jul 18, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Edward Snowden thinks cloud providers still have a chance to win users’ trust

The former NSA sysadmin said in a Guardian interview that cloud providers can earn users' trust by building their services around encryption and being clear about "where they draw the lines."…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Jeff Roberts Jul 15, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Using strong crypto, TunnelX offers a conversation tool that no one can snoop on

TunnelX is a service that uses really strong encryption to let ordinary people have a truly private conversation online. But what will happen if the government comes calling?…

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Technology
David Meyer Jul 10, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Silent Circle squares up to Skype with semi-secure calls to normal phones

Encrypted communications outfit Silent Circle, which has telco distribution deals for its secure voice app and $30 million funding in the bank,…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Barb Darrow Jul 1, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Encryption race continues as Microsoft bulks up protection for email and file storage

Microsoft one-ups its encryption gameplan, adding Transport Layer Security to Outlook.com and enabling Perfect Forward Secrecy on Outlook.com and OneDrive.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
David Meyer Jul 1, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Updated: PayPal froze account of secure email startup ProtonMail due to “technical problem”

The Switzerland-based startup, established by MIT, Harvard and CERN researchers, couldn't access money that crowdfunding backers have given it, because PayPal had frozen its account. A PayPal rep apparently asked if ProtonMail had asked the government for permission to offer encryption.…

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Europe, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jun 16, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

BlackBerry continues to refocus on enterprise, launching an encrypted version of BBM

BlackBerry is using its secure enterprise communications network to launch a secure version of BBM, targeting it at corporate and government customer. It's the second example in two weeks of BlackBerry looking beyond the phone.…

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Mobile, Technology
Barb Darrow Jun 13, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Amazon S3 users can now bring their own encryption keys

If you want to manage your own server-side encryption keys for Amazon S3 you can do so, or you can let Amazon keep doing it.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Derrick Harris Jun 3, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cloudera acquires big data encryption specialist Gazzang

Hadoop vendor Cloudera has acquired Gazzang, a startup specializing in encryption for Hadoop environments, as well as others next-generation data stores such as Cassandra and MongoDB.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics
David Meyer May 29, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Here’s what you need to know about the sudden and mysterious death of TrueCrypt

It's a mystery that has the information security industry scratching its collective head: why did the anonymous developers of TrueCrypt, a tool recommended by the likes of Edward Snowden, suddenly kill the project and recommend a Microsoft encryption tool instead?…

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Technology

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