Coppers shut down encrypted messaging service
Used by international drugs and arms dealers
An encrypted messaging service, which was international drug and arms trafficking dealers' tool of choice, has been taken down by Inspector Knacker of Europol.
Chinese spooks hacking US mobile users in real time
Reds under the beds
Millions of US mobile users could be vulnerable to Chinese government spooks who are apparently desperate to know when they are picking up their snowflakes from school and where they order their pizza.
Chinese boffins crack encryption with a D-Wave quantum computer
Encryption is potentially dead and alive
Chinese boffins have used a D-Wave quantum computer to mount a successful quantum attack on widely used encryption algorithms.
Top boffin claims to have cracked RSA-2048 encryption
Can be done with a smartphone or even a Linux computer
A top boffin has discovered a way to use his smartphone or Linux computer to crack RSA-2048 encryption.
Spain wants to abandon end-to-end encryption
Claims it is about protecting children
Spain wants to ban encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union and has strong support among EU member states for proposals to scanning private messages for illegal content.
Encryption algorithms too easy to beat
Just attack the math
Encryption algorithms which were supposed to see off quantum computing are turning out to be pants.
Encryption outfit might have talked up its quantum claims
Former employees say the tech is a bit pants
Arqit says its encryption system can't be broken by quantum computers, but former employees and people outside the company question the relevance of its technology.
Samsung botched encryption
From the 2017 Galaxy S8 on up to last year's Galaxy S21
Samsung apparently shipped more than 100 million of its smartphones with the encryption borked.
Phone encryption system is a joke
Expert finds that it is not difficult to break
While phone encryption is considered a hot topic by lawmakers who are worried it is being used by criminals and terrorists, Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University has been showing that it is not really as safe as all that.
End-to-end encryption great for pedophiles
Aussie top cop doesn’t mince his words
Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Reece Kershaw has warned that the real winners from a move to end-to-end encryption are pedophiles rather than those who need increased privacy.