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Aster Chain Launch: Defining a New Era for Onchain Privacy and Transparency

Aster, a privacy-focused trading ecosystem backed by YZi Labs, today announced the official launch of Aster Chain Mainnet. This purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain is designed to dismantle the ...

Instagram to Discontinue End-to-End Encryption for DMs on May 8: What It Means for You

Instagram said that users with chats currently protected by end-to-end encryption will be notified in the app about the ...
Android Authority

Apple is finally testing RCS encryption, but there’s a catch for Android users

Apple has started testing end-to-end encrypted RCS in the first iOS 26.4 developer beta. RCS encryption currently works only between iPhones, not between iPhone and Android. Apple says full RCS E2EE ...
MacRumors

Apple Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta

Apple is testing secure messaging between Android and iOS devices with iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4. The updates introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, a security ...
Network World

Quantum computing is getting closer, but quantum-proof encryption remains elusive

The day when quantum computers will be able to break conventional encryption is rapidly approaching, but not all companies are prepared to implement post-quantum cryptography. Quantum-safe encryption ...
Lifehacker

Meta Is Being Sued Over Whether WhatsApp Really Encrypts Your Messages

Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops, phones, and more for over 10 years. She is based in New York City and holds a master's degree from NYU. An ...
The Verge

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...
GitHub

CryptoJS AES encryption/decryption on client side with Javascript and on server side with PHP

This library is considered deprecated, read-only and superseeded by my newer library https://github.com/brainfoolong/js-aes-php - It's basically the same without the ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows ...
Forbes

Data Makes The World Go Round—Until It Doesn’t: What You Urgently Need To Know About Keyless Encryption

“Shut it down! Shut it all down! And pay them what they are asking!” It was 5:55 AM on May 7, 2021, in Alpharetta, Georgia. Minutes earlier, an employee of The Colonial Pipeline Company (CPC) ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Reportedly Turned Over BitLocker Encryption Keys to the FBI

Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...