Kim Dotcom’s Mega has launched a public beta of its MegaChat end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service, which it claims will offer a more secure alternative to Skype. The in-browser… Read more »
When the FBI formally accused North Korea of being behind the Sony Pictures hack, it was clear that it knew more than it were letting on about the evidence – it’s… Read more »
Police in the U.K. have arrested another man in connection with the disruption of Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network over the Christmas period. The 18-year-old was arrested near Liverpool… Read more »
British Prime Minister David Cameron is reportedly set to ask President Barack Obama to apply pressure to U.S. tech firms that offer fully encrypted communications, to compel them to break the… Read more »
A Canadian outfit called Peerio has put its eponymous secure messaging and cloud storage app into public beta, promising a much more usable alternative to PGP email and file encryption. Peerio… Read more »
The British prime minister David Cameron has suggested that if his Conservative Party wins the upcoming general election, it will not allow encrypted communications that cannot be read by the security… Read more »
Security researchers Alex Rad and Juliano Rizzo claim to have discovered significant weaknesses in the Telegram secure messaging app, mainly to do with the “visual fingerprint” that correspondents must use to… Read more »
There’s been a predictable split in the reactions to Wednesday’s slaughter of the staff of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, along with others including police who were trying to protect them… Read more »
Two German government websites were knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack around 10am local time on Wednesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s site is still down five and a… Read more »
The November takedown of Silk Road 2.0 and other “dark markets” for drugs and weapons – originally touted as 410 hidden services by the authorities, then quietly revised down to 27… Read more »