Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 19, 2022

At some point in the not-so-distant future, quantum computers are going to pose a major threat to today’s encryption mechanisms and encrypted data. To begin with, all of today’s encrypted communications could potentially be at risk of being leaked and abused.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 21, 2022

It is no secret that cybersecurity professionals universally recommend that people, businesses, and governments employ strong encryption as one of several methods of protecting sensitive information.

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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. Reuters could not determine why exactly Apple dropped the plan.

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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. I think this is a major change in government position.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Both are popular messaging tools in Iran. The hackers also have created malware disguised as Android applications, the reports said.

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Nearly every piece of data that is presently protected through the use of encryption may become vulnerable to exposure unless we take action soon. While quantum computers already exist, no devices are believed to yet exist that are anywhere near powerful enough to crack modern encryption in short order.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isn’t the solution.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Recent progress has sparked discussions, but current capabilities are still far from threatening encryption standards like 2048-bit RSA. It is essential to understand the risks posed by quantum computing, as future advancements could compromise today's encrypted data, opening new opportunities for threat actors.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As reported by The Washington Post, Apple received notice of a possible request in March 2024, but the official ask occurred in January 2025.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

There is little doubt that quantum computing will ultimately undermine the security of most of today’s encryption systems , and, thereby, render vulnerable to exposure nearly every piece of data that is presently protected through the use of encryption. Such an attitude is not alarmist – it is reality, whether we like it or not.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 2, 2023

Organizations subject to government regulations can gain more control over their own security. The post Google Workspace admins can now use client-side encryption on Gmail and Calendar appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 2, 2021

We can assume strong encryption, and good key management. Still, seems like a juicy target for other governments. The satellite can detect and characterise any rogue emissions, enabling it to respond dynamically to accidental interference or intentional jamming.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key Findings: MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2022

Both bills have provisions that could be used to break end-to-end encryption. 3(c)(7)(A)(iii) would allow a company to deny access to apps installed by users, where those app makers “have been identified [by the Federal Government] as national security, intelligence, or law enforcement risks.” Let’s start with S.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2021

.” Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal and CEO of the nonprofit that runs it, describes the new payments feature as an attempt to extend Signal’s privacy protections to payments with the same seamless experience that Signal has offered for encrypted conversations. End-to-end encryption is already at risk.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a technical capability notice as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring it to break the Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud for the benefit of law enforcement. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2020

Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S. It's easy to predict how Attorney General William Barr would use that power: to break encryption. He's said over and over that he thinks the "best practice" is to force encrypted messaging systems to give law enforcement access to our private conversations.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Apple is removing its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature for iCloud from the United Kingdom with immediate effect following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted user data. The development was first reported by Bloomberg.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 23, 2024

European Police Chiefs said that the complementary partnership between law enforcement agencies and the technology industry is at risk due to end-to-end encryption (E2EE). They called on the industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety across social media platforms.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it's working towards implementing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 1, 2019

This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include embedded content moderation and blacklist filtering algorithms. The company even noted.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Founded in 1985, ENGlobal Corporation designs automated control systems for commercial and government sectors, reporting $6 million in Q3 revenue and $18.4 The threat actors had access to the company’s information technology systems and encrypted some of its data files. . million year-to-date. ” reads the report filed with SEC.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summaries of who spoke to whom, when, and where.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it risks giving the Egyptian government permission to read users’ emails and messages. Even messages shared via encrypted services like WhatsApp are vulnerable, according to POLITICO’s technical review of the application, and two of the outside experts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2025

The company exclusively sells exploits to the Russian government and local firms. Given Telegrams end-to-end encryption and widespread use, an exploit that bypasses its security could be a game-changer for cyber espionage. The Russian firm seeks up to $500K for one-click RCE, $1.5M continues the announcement.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. government on multiple occasions over the past five years.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 29, 2020

in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app. If the decision is unsealed, other tech companies will likely try to use its reasoning to ward off similar government requests in the future. This is interesting : Facebook Inc. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to find out how.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, in a recent attack on French corporates and government agencies, an AI-engineered malware exploited advanced techniques like COM hijacking and encrypted payloads, enabling attackers to remain undetected for extended periods, exfiltrate sensitive data, and establish long-term persistence within the network.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 16, 2024

government regulation has an impact on PQC availability, with different certified encryption methods being required for products handling government info.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Sponsored by: Boxcryptor cloud security: Free end-to-end encryption for your files. Check out the seamless encryption solution, Made in Germany!

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Hell froze over: FBI and NSA recommend you use strong encryption. The post China is Still Inside US Networks — It’s Been SIX Months appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning organizations about Ghost (Cring) ransomware, a sophisticated cyber threat that has been compromising critical infrastructure, businesses, and government entities worldwide.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 30, 2021

Researchers write that the RAT is constantly on the lookout for “any activity of interest, such as a phone call, to immediately record the conversation, collect the updated call log, and then upload the contents to the C&C server as an encrypted ZIP file.” This is a sophisticated piece of malware.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 11, 2021

I got my 11th MVP award this week (being welcomed into the MVP program was the turning point of my career and it remains enormously special to me 😊) Sponsored by: Varonis.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2024

I know I was at the Fast Software Encryption workshop in December 1993, another conference he created. There I presented the Blowfish encryption algorithm. He didn’t suffer fools in either government or the corporate world. He was the first person to make a lot of those sorts of connections.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Since 2013, of course, there have been multiple efforts by governments to spy on users of digital communications and to force technology companies to provide access to the electronic communications of suspected criminals. Of course, no encryption method is perfect. So, is there a way to truly protect communications from snooping?

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