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What your encrypted data says about you

Your encrypted traffic could tell the government (or the crooks) more than you think, no decryption required.
Naked Security – Sophos

Kaspersky Lab, WISeKey launch encrypted vault for mobile security – Computer Business Review


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Kaspersky Lab, WISeKey launch encrypted vault for mobile security
Computer Business Review
The WISeID Kaspersky Lab Security features Kaspersky Mobile Security SDK, which protects mobile phones against security threats. The companies said the inclusion of SDK in the app offers advanced security features like web and network protection, …
Kaspersky, WiseKey release new edition of WiseID appTelecompaper (subscription)

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Apple Can Still Read Your End-to-End Encrypted iMessages

This allows Apple, and hence anyone who breaks into your account, to see your personal and confidential data. In past, we have seen incidents like The Fappening in which hackers broke into Apple’s iCloud accounts to steal nude selfies of over hundred …
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Defense One: Islamic State has written its own encrypted communications app

The Islamic State is deploying its own encrypted communications app for Android, an eventuality predicted by experts who oppose efforts of governments to require encryption backdoors so they can find out what criminals are saying to teach other.

The app, called lrawi.apk, employs what is described as rudimentary encryption and was available for download last month on a Web site where Islamic State supporters could download it and another app for distributing propaganda, according to a story posted by Defense One.

The creation of such an encryption app has been considered a likely outcome of laws being proposed internationally requiring backdoors that would allow service providers to fulfill court orders to decrypt private communications of their customers.

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Network World Tim Greene