Cryptography

Image Source : INDIA TV Messages Apps Google has rolled out end-to-end encryption in group chats for Messages app users enrolled in the beta programme. The company said it has "completed the rollout of group chat end-to-end encryption for users in Open Beta" in just over a month, reports 9to5Google. ALSO READ: Google rolling out new split-screen look to Android Auto…

Watch out for these top 10 programming languages for cryptography in 2023 to protect your data It is important to learn programming languages for Cryptography to secure the encrypted data. As we all know, cryptography is a technique for protecting data and communications by using codes, ensuring that only the intended audience can decipher and process the data. Programming languages are therefore crucial for limiting unwanted access to information. “Crypt” means “hidden,” and “graphy” means “writing,” respectively. The…

Ransomware group Hive could be behind the attack, after the group published the Lake Charles Memorial Health System’s name to its website.Image: Thaiview (Shutterstock)The only thing scarier than America’s privatized healthcare system is America’s privatized healthcare system getting hacked. Well, I have bad news—Lake Charles Memorial Health System in Louisiana has been the subject of a ransomware attack, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of patients.Lake Charles Memorial Health System is a hospital network…

Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images)A major hack affecting password manager giant LastPass appears much worse than first thought. In an update announcement two days before Christmas, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba admitted the attackers were able to successfully copy a backup of customer vault data. With that data in hand, the attackers can potentially access users’ entire collection of passwords and other data stored with LastPass if they can find a way to guess a user’s master password.Trying to prevent an immediate spike in…

Google’s new open source tool Magritte can automatically identify objects in videos to add blur to them.Photo: DANIEL CONSTANTE (Shutterstock)On Friday, Google announced its machine learning tool called Magritte was going open source. According to information sent to Gizmodo, the tool detects objects inside images or video and automatically applies blur when they appear on screen. Google mentioned the object does not matter, and blur can be applied to, for example, license plates or tattoos.Google also mentioned the code…

Image: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)Google Workspace is rolling out a new security update on Gmail, adding end-to-end encryption that aims to provide an added layer of security when sending emails and attachments on the web. Customers will continue to have control over encryption keys and identity services that provide access to those keys.The update is still in the beta stages, but eligible Workspace customers with Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, and Education Plus accounts can fill out an application to test the…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has come out as an antagonist to the crypto industry, but her new bill will see pushback from the more pro-crypto members of Congress. Photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images)There’s a new bill coming to Congress to deal with crypto, and this one’s not pulling many punches on the entire crypto ecosystem. On Wednesday, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Sen. Roger Marshall announced they were introducing legislation that would extend current money laundering laws to cryptocurrencies. This…

“We expect the situation will be restored when the banks open,” Zhao explained on Twitter this morning. Image: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, announced it’s pausing withdrawals of the USDC stablecoin following a spike in user activity that resulted in $1.9 billion in withdrawals in the last day. That spike, according to CoinDesk, comes amid possible red flags revealed in its recent proof-of-reserve report.But Binance announced on Twitter early this morning that the exchange…

Image: hanohiki (Shutterstock)Apple is making new efforts to increase user security. While the company has previously touted its overall privacy prowess, the new features are specifically meant to to safeguard iCloud accounts and iMessage.Apple unveiled three major security features in an announcement published Wednesday. The first, iMessage Contact Key Verification, allows you to ensure that your messages are only visible to you and the given recipient. Security Keys for AppleID, meanwhile, can require the use of an…

The Deepwater Horizon platform burns on April 21, 2010.Photo: Gerald Herbert (AP)The network of offshore oil and gas facilities in the U.S. is at serious and increasing risk of a potentially devastating cyberattack, a government watchdog says. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report last week finding that if a cyberattack successfully hits the nation’s offshore infrastructure, it could cause a catastrophe with impacts similar to those of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.According to the GAO, there…