Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), all personal data breaches must be recorded by the organisation and there should be a clear and defined process for doing so. Additionally, there are circumstances in which…
BlackBerry Phone Cracked
Australia is reporting that a BlackBerry device has been cracked after five years: An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first seized by police is poised to be the key…
Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don’t Compromise…
Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert you when messages appear to come from financial scammers…
Zoom’s Commitment to User Security Depends on Whether…
Zoom was doing so well.... And now we have this: Corporate clients will get access to Zoom's end-to-end encryption service now being developed, but Yuan said free users won't enjoy that level of privacy, which…
Enigma Machine for Sale
A four-rotor Enigma machine -- with rotors -- is up for auction.Read more: schneier.com
Zoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users
Zoom is doing the right thing: it's making end-to-end encryption available to all users, paid and unpaid. (This is a change; I wrote about the initial decision here.) ...we have identified a path forward that…
RSA-250 Factored
RSA-250 has been factored. This computation was performed with the Number Field Sieve algorithm, using the open-source CADO-NFS software. The total computation time was roughly 2700 core-years, using Intel Xeon Gold 6130 CPUs as a…
Securing Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
The NSA just published a survey of video conferencing apps. So did Mozilla. Zoom is on the good list, with some caveats. The company has done a lot of work addressing previous security concerns. It…
How Did Facebook Beat a Federal Wiretap Demand?
This is interesting: Facebook Inc. in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to find out how. The entire proceeding was confidential,…