Amex Suffers Breach In India
American Express India enabled a database to be accessible to anyone for longer than five days in October, according to a report in The Next Web. According to the report, the Hacken cyber consultancy...
View ArticleAccutive Eyes GDPR Compliance With Encryption Alternative
Security and technology consulting company Accutive is rolling out a new solution designed to give enterprises an alternative to data encryption to protect sensitive information. In a press release on...
View ArticleZuckerberg Says Facebook To Embrace Private Messaging
Social media giant Facebook will embrace what CEO Mark Zuckerberg has termed “privacy-focused” communications marked by encrypted services, the executive said in a blog post on Wednesday (March 6)....
View ArticleNew Twitter Tools Enhance Privacy Protection
Twitter announced an update to its abuse reporting functions that will allow its users to specify personal information issues. “We want to move faster in reviewing reported Tweets that share personal...
View ArticleApple Announces CryptoKit For Digital Wallet Developers
Apple has announced the launch of CryptoKit, a Swift API that will perform basic cryptographic functions for its iOS 13 software release, according to a report by CoinDesk. The announcement was made...
View ArticleIndia Wants WhatsApp To Make Messages Traceable
India is asking messaging service WhatsApp to put a digital fingerprint on every message sent by the service, but without breaking the encryption, according to a report by the Economic Times. Indian...
View ArticleGoogle Releases Open Source Cryptographic Tool
Google has released an open source cryptographic tool called Private Join and Compute that allows for different datasets to calculate a result, while not revealing sensitive or private information...
View ArticleABN AMRO, Qutech Link Up To Improve Banking Security
As computers become more and more powerful and start to utilize quantum technology, today’s security measures, like encryption, will increasingly be at risk, according to reports. That’s why Dutch bank...
View ArticleUS AG Wants Lawmakers To Have Access To Encrypted Messaging
William Barr, U.S. attorney general, made lengthy comments on Tuesday (July 23) about encrypted messaging and the need for law enforcement to have access to those messages if necessary, according to a...
View ArticleRobinhood Said Users’ Passwords May Have Been Exposed
The popular stock trading app Robinhood sent an email to customers warning that some passwords were mistakenly stored in a readable format and that users should change their passwords, according to a...
View ArticleIndia Rules IDs Can’t Be Linked To Social Accounts
An Indian court has ruled that people in the country can’t link Aadhaar (unique identification) or any other government-issued identification with their social media accounts, according to reports....
View ArticleSocial Network Telegram Races To Release Promised Cryptocurrency
While Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra hangs in regulatory limbo over concerns of money laundering and a threat to financial stability, popular social network Telegram has plans to release its...
View ArticleBitcoin Daily: Ant Financial, Bayer Team On Agriculture Blockchain;...
Alipay’s Ant Financial announced that it has partnered with Bayer Crop Science to develop blockchain solutions in the food and crops industry. The companies will work together to bring the...
View ArticleAG Barr Calls For Facebook To Suspend Encryption Of Messages
The U.S. Attorney General wrote an open letter to Facebook asking it to postpone plans to encrypt messages on the company’s three services until the government can assess how it will affect public...
View ArticleFacebook To Enhance Encryption On Messenger Despite Regulators’ Protests
Facebook said it is going to enhance encryption capabilities on its Messenger communication platform, despite requests from lawmakers and regulators not to do so because of the potential result that...
View ArticleHow To Defend Corporate Banking Against Trojans, Malware
Corporate banking transactions are increasingly in the crosshairs of hackers. As these transactions are increasingly done across borders, financial institutions (FIs) must grapple with diverse...
View ArticleUnencrypted Vistaprint Database Exposed Personal Customer Data
Printing company Vistaprint left an online database containing customer interactions unencrypted, according to a report. A security researcher named Oliver Hough discovered the unprotected database on...
View ArticleInterpol Rethinks Position On Encryption
Outcry from the technology sector and civil liberties advocates has caused the global police organization Interpol to hold off on publicly criticizing the spread of encryption, unnamed sources told...
View ArticleSoftBank Releases SBC Wallet Cards With Fiat/Crypto Options
Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank has announced the launch of SBC Wallet Cards, which utilize its own encryption system, and boast multiple encryption mechanisms, as well as hot and cold...
View ArticleSenators Demand That Big Tech Releases Encrypted Data To Law Enforcement
U.S. senators went head to head with executives of Apple and Facebook on Tuesday (Dec. 10) over the companies’ decision to use encryption technology, according to a report by Reuters. The lawmakers...
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