encryption

It's no secret that using the internet usually means handing over most of your personal information – consciously or not. DuckDuckGo bills itself as an alternative to this, protecting its users' privacy, and now it’s providing users an easier way to access their information from multiple places. The browser has announced a new sync and backup feature that shares bookmarks, email protection settings and passwords across devices.Basically, DuckDuckGo users who choose it for its lack of data sharing can still get the…

Hackers use ransomware to go after every industry, to return access to a victim's files. It’s a lucrative business to be in. In the first six months of 2023, ransomware gangs , even though most governments . Increasingly, security professionals are coming together with law enforcement to provide free decryption tools — freeing locked files and eliminating the temptation for victims to pony up.There are a couple main ways that ransomware decryptors go about coming up with tools: reverse engineering for mistakes, working…

 The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Wireless Personal Area Network as also Wireless Local Area Network (WPAN/WLAN) registration to all entities engaged in such businesses.DoT has said that non-compliance may lead to withdrawal or disconnection of telecom resources obtained from the authorised telecom licensees. Accordingly, it said, all business entities (companies, government departments, organisations, partnership firms, LLPs, institutions, undertakings, proprietorship…

More than 50 domestic and international organisations such as Signal Foundation, Access Now, Eko, Digital Rights Watch Freedom House and others as well as seven digital rights activists have written to the government, asking it to withdraw the Telecommunications Bill of 2023.In their letter addressed to union minister for telecommunications Ashwini Vaishnaw dated December 21, these organisations have said that the bill "imperils encryption", "amplifies unchecked powers of the government" and "enhances surveillance without…

There are a lot of different ways to store files online or share them with others. Services like Google Drive and Dropbox are both popular choices that are also convenient for easily sharing large files you couldn’t fit into an email.  If you’re wondering which is better, there’s no reason to guess. We’ve already compared the two storage services for you and compiled the results below. Google Drive wins the free storage battle Both Dropbox and Google Drive offer free storage space for those who would like to try out…

Proton finally has a desktop app. The Swiss company, known for its privacy-focused alternatives to the Google Workspace apps, revealed a Windows and macOS application on Thursday that includes Proton Mail and Proton Calendar. The desktop app is currently available in beta for subscribers on the most expensive premium tier, but the company says it will launch for all Proton users in early 2024.The company says the desktop app has a modern design with a clutter-free experience. Proton views the move as providing a leg up…

Google Photos is one of the most popular cloud-based image and video storage platforms. But a part of the reason why it is so popular is that it comes pre-installed with Android smartphones, and it auto-backups media files, becoming a convenient solution for those who do not want to fill their internal storage with them. However, this is also the reason why many people never look for or find out about other such platforms that offer unique features and more security. Proton Drive is one such alternative platform that…

Meta’s decision to introduce end-to-end encryption for Facebook messages will hamstring the rescue of child sex trafficking victims and the prosecution of predators, according to child safety organizations and US prosecutors.This week, the tech giant announced it had begun rolling out automatic encryption for direct messages on its Facebook and Messenger platforms to more than 1 billion users. Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of the messages that users send or receive unless one…

Meta is rolling out default end-to-end encryption for all calls and messages on Facebook Messenger, the company announced on Wednesday. While users have had the option to turn on end-to-end encryption since 2016, the feature will now automatically apply to all private chats and calls, Loredana Crisan, the head of Messenger, said in a blog post. “This has taken years to deliver because we’ve taken our time to get this right,” Crisan said. “Our engineers, cryptographers, designers, policy experts and product…

 In the first nine months of 2023, U.S. data breaches increased by 20% compared to the full year 2022, according to a new study that was commissioned by Apple.The iPhone maker paid for the study, which was conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Stuart E. Madnick, about a year after it rolled out a new feature to expand end-to-end encryption for data stored in its iCloud service. The study, which does not include any findings of data breaches at Apple itself, argues that breaches are becoming so…