Over the past four years, I have handled numerous international cases involving SkyECC, Ennetcom, EncroChat, and other PGP- or crypto-phone networks. These networks were designed to guarantee privacy through end-to-end encryption and were allegedly used by criminals for secure communication, but they quickly attracted the attention of law enforcement. What initially appeared to be an airtight weapon for prosecutors - massive hacks of encrypted messages that seemed to dismantle entire criminal networks - is becoming a legal minefield.
Additionally, the speaker in the AirTag is now 50 percent louder, Apple says. These two things together address some user complaints that as useful as an AirTag can be in ideal circumstances, sometimes it was frustrating trying to get things just right to find something. It won't eliminate all edge cases, but it ought to help.
Let's be honest: most agencies don't have a blank check to invest in cybersecurity modernization. But that doesn't mean they're stuck. You don't need a full rip-and-replace to make meaningful progress; you need clarity, urgency and smart prioritization. Whether you're working with a full budget or a shoestring one, there are moves you can make today that will strengthen your defenses tomorrow.
Google has announced a new feature called Android Emergency Live Video, and it's pretty much what you'd assume it would be based on the name - the ability to share live video with emergency services. And it works "in a single tap" too, because in an emergency every second counts.
The multi-million dollar effort to remove public access to police radio communications across the East Bay has a new start date, roughly a month after similar plans were undone by a technology snafu. Every law enforcement agency in Contra Costa County including all police departments and the county's sheriff's office will end public access to their radio chatter on Oct. 7, said David Swing, head of the East Bay Regional Communications System Authority. Nearly every such agency in Alameda County plans to follow suit on Oct. 9, he said. The only holdout appears to be the Berkeley Police Department, which vowed last month to keep their conversations public.
The viral post falsely claims that if you do not enable Advanced Chat Privacy, Meta's AI tools will be able to access your private conversations. This isn't true, and it misrepresents both how Meta AI works and what Advanced Chat Privacy is. The confusion seems to spawn from the fact that Meta AI can be invoked through a number of methods, including in any group chat with the @Meta AI command .
"I am concerned that these actions by foreign powers to impose censorship and weaken end-to-end encryption will erode Americans' freedoms and subject them to myriad harms, such as surveillance by foreign governments and an increased risk of identity theft and fraud," Ferguson wrote in the letters, the statement added.
End-to-end encryption is an essential security tool that protects our personal data, including our bank details, health information, private conversations and images. It'd be an entirely reckless and unprecedented move from the UK Government to open up a backdoor to this data, and one that will have global consequences.
The decision led Apple to withdraw its Advance Data Protection (ADP) service from UK customers, stating "we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will."
VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) allow you to browse the internet from a remote server, masking your IP address and anonymizing your identity in the process.
Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised the development of its own, state-backed messaging app, which will be integrated with government services, and will provide a more functional service to locals.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal will hear five legal challenges regarding a secret Home Office order requiring Apple to grant access to encrypted iCloud data.
