Topic: end-to-end encryption
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Signal Launches First Paid Feature: Encrypted Backups
Signal has launched its first paid service, offering encrypted backups for media older than 45 days and full text message history at $1.99 per month, aligning with its nonprofit, ad-free model. The subscription helps cover infrastructure costs for data storage, while a free tier allows limited ba...
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Kopia: Free Encrypted Backup for Windows, macOS & Linux
Kopia is a free, open-source backup tool that works across Windows, macOS, and Linux, enabling encrypted snapshots of files and folders with strong security. It supports various storage options including cloud services, remote servers, and local devices, and features end-to-end encryption, compre...
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Apple Tests Encrypted RCS Messaging for iPhone
Apple has begun testing end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging in a developer beta, a foundational step toward enhancing privacy for texts between iPhone and Android users. This encryption, which ensures only the sender and recipient can read messages, is currently limited to iPhones and will be full...
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8 Essential WhatsApp Security Features to Protect Your Privacy
WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is a strong security foundation, but users must actively manage privacy settings due to ongoing threats like account hijacking and data exposure. Key built-in privacy tools include the Privacy Checkup for controlling profile visibility and contacts, and Disappeari...
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Kohler's Smart Toilet Cameras Claim E2EE Despite Data Access
Kohler's smart toilet camera, which analyzes waste for health insights, claims to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for privacy, but experts challenge this as the company itself can decrypt and access the sensitive data. The company's interpretation of E2EE means data is encrypted in transit to it...
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Google Now Shares Employee Text Messages With Employers
Google has introduced a feature allowing employers to intercept and archive all RCS and SMS/MMS messages sent from company-managed Android phones, fundamentally changing employee privacy expectations. This archival system works by integrating with the Google Messages app to log every message acti...
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Google Messages' Newest Features for October 2025
Google Messages is introducing the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol for cross-platform end-to-end encrypted RCS chats between Android and iOS devices, enhancing security. The app is receiving a visual and functional overhaul, including a redesigned image viewer, updated read receipts, a fu...
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How Rakuten Viber Secures Privacy While Fighting Abuse
Security for global messaging platforms is a critical human responsibility, as they serve as essential lifelines during crises; this demands prioritizing availability, integrity, and resilience with life-or-death consequences, not just as technical metrics. End-to-end encryption necessitates prot...
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'End-to-End Encrypted' Smart Toilet Camera Lacks Promised Security
Kohler's Dekoda smart toilet camera claims to use "end-to-end encryption" for user data, but security experts clarify it actually employs standard TLS encryption, allowing the company potential access to images on its servers. The discrepancy in privacy promises is significant because true end-to...
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WhatsApp's New Privacy Lockdown Mode: One-Toggle Security
WhatsApp is introducing a consolidated "Strict Account Settings" feature that bundles multiple privacy protections into a single switch, simplifying activation for enhanced security. Once enabled, this all-or-nothing setting enforces restrictions like hiding online status, limiting group adds, an...
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Proton Launches End-to-End Encrypted Spreadsheet App
Proton has launched Proton Sheets, a new encrypted spreadsheet application featuring real-time collaboration and end-to-end encryption, ensuring only creators and collaborators can access the data. The tool is integrated with Proton Drive, offers a free tier with 5GB storage, and is accessible vi...
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Secure Your WhatsApp Backups with Passkeys
WhatsApp is introducing a password-free method to encrypt chat backups using device authentication like facial recognition, fingerprint, or screen lock PIN. This update eliminates the previous need for a 64-digit key or separate password, simplifying the process and enhancing security for stored ...
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Keeper Password Manager Review 2025: Secure Your Business
Keeper organizes digital assets into records and folders, supporting a wide range of item types and allowing custom fields and file attachments for flexible management. It offers granular sharing options at both record and folder levels, with customizable permissions and secure methods for sharin...
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Master Signal Group Chats: A Community Organizer's Guide
Signal is a secure messaging app valued for its privacy features, enabling private coordination of community safety and support networks. The app's security protects lawful organizing and free speech, but users must proactively adjust privacy settings like hiding their phone number and enabling s...
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US Told to Exempt Big Tech from Digital Services Act
US regulators oppose the EU's Digital Services Act, arguing it threatens free speech and digital security for American users under First Amendment protections. The FTC warns that compliance with foreign regulations like the DSA or GDPR must not weaken encryption or lead to censorship, as this cou...
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WhatsApp's New Lockdown Mode Boosts Security Against Cyberattacks
WhatsApp has introduced a "Strict Account Settings" mode, a lockdown feature that blocks media from unknown senders and silences calls from non-contacts, primarily for high-risk users like journalists and activists. When enabled, this setting creates a digital fortress by disabling link previews,...
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Kohler's Toilet Cameras Lack True End-to-End Encryption
Kohler's Dekota smart toilet falsely advertised end-to-end encryption, as user health data is decrypted and accessible on company servers, leading to the removal of that claim. A major Chinese cyberespionage campaign, Salt Typhoon, infiltrated US telecom networks and accessed communications of po...
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WhatsApp Opens to Third-Party Chats in Europe
WhatsApp will introduce third-party chat interoperability in Europe to comply with the Digital Markets Act, allowing encrypted messaging across different platforms. Initial integration will include services like BirdyChat and Haiket, with the feature accessible on mobile devices and user control ...
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Discover the New Features in iOS 26.1 to 26.4
iOS 26.1 beta introduces expanded language support for Apple Intelligence and Live Translation on AirPods, along with minor refinements in core apps like Apple Music and Safari. Apple is adding a digital U.S. passport to the Wallet app for TSA checkpoints and age verification, emphasizing securit...
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Ring denies providing ICE with camera access
A campaign urging the destruction of Ring cameras highlights public concern over potential data sharing with agencies like ICE, though Ring denies any partnership or video sharing with ICE. Ring's Community Requests tool allows local police to ask users for footage, raising questions about survei...
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WhatsApp to Enable Cross-Platform Messaging in Europe
Meta is launching a cross-platform messaging feature for WhatsApp users in Europe, allowing them to communicate with users on other apps like BirdyChat and Haiket, in compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act. Users can share various content types and will have the option to enable or disable ...
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How Attackers Weaponize Communication Networks
Communication networks are now the primary target for cyber attackers, offering vast data access for espionage, financial crime, and other malicious intents. Attackers exploit built-in network tools and lawful intercept systems to passively monitor and steal credentials, enabling large-scale surv...
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WhatsApp for Apple Watch is finally here
WhatsApp has officially launched a dedicated Apple Watch app, enabling users to receive call notifications, read full message threads, and send voice messages directly from their wrist. The app enhances user interaction by allowing emoji reactions, improved image and sticker clarity, and maintain...
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WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Users
A security vulnerability in WhatsApp's contact discovery system allowed researchers to verify nearly all active accounts and access profile details for a significant portion of its 3.5 billion users. Meta addressed the flaw by October after being notified, implementing stricter rate-limiting to p...
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Deleted Doesn't Mean Gone: How Police Recovered Doorbell Footage
Deleted digital data, like cloud-stored video, is not instantly erased but often remains recoverable until overwritten, as demonstrated by law enforcement retrieving deleted doorbell footage in a missing person case. Nest cameras automatically upload short clips to Google's servers by default, ev...
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Ring's Video Verification: A Limited Shield Against AI Fakes
Ring Verify provides a "digital security seal" to confirm that downloaded security footage has not been altered since leaving Ring's servers, aiming to combat misinformation. The tool's utility is limited as it cannot authenticate any video edited after download, including trimmed or filtered cli...
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WhatsApp Arrives on Apple Watch With Exciting New Features
WhatsApp has officially launched a fully functional native app for Apple Watch, moving beyond basic notifications to provide a comprehensive messaging experience directly on the wearable device. The app includes key features such as viewing entire conversations, recording and sending voice messag...
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Earn $10K+ by Unplugging Ring Doorbells From Amazon Cloud
The Fulu Foundation is offering a cash bounty starting at $10,000 for developers to create software that modifies Ring doorbells to store video locally, disconnecting them from Amazon's cloud. This initiative responds to privacy concerns and limitations of Ring's current paid cloud storage, aimin...
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Unpatched OnePlus Flaw Lets Malicious Apps Send Texts
A security flaw in OnePlus's OxygenOS allows malicious apps to silently read SMS messages and metadata without user permission, posing a significant privacy risk. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-10184, stems from flawed security configurations in modified Android components, enabling blind SQL inject...
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