May 19, 2020

Cash-flashing rapper charged with money laundering for BTC-e

The FBI nabbed "Plinofficial" when he arrived at Miami airport carrying $20K cash, allegedly made off of the defunct, fraud-fav exchange.

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December 12, 2019

Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption

Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it'll be forced to.

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October 31, 2019

WhatsApp sues spyware maker for allegedly hacking phones worldwide

WhatsApp has publicly attributed the attack on its users in May 2019 to the Israeli spyware makers, NSO Group.

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September 11, 2019

Telegram fixes ‘unsend message’ bug that held on to your pictures

A security researcher uncovered a flaw in Telegram's 'unsend message' feature.

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March 08, 2019

Zuck says Facebook is becoming more “privacy focused”

Facebook's planning a new, highly integrated platform and talking a lot about encrypted messaging.

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November 09, 2018

258,000 encrypted IronChat phone messages cracked by police

They expect to cuff hundreds of criminals who used the pricey phones, which were sold with the crypto app preinstalled.

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June 04, 2018

Apple lifts two-month ban on Telegram updates in iOS store

Apple was blocking updates globally since Russian authorities ordered the company to remove the encrypted messaging app from the App Store.

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April 17, 2018

“Privacy is not for sale,” says Telegram founder

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has spoken out after Russia started blocking Telegram encrypted messaging.

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December 21, 2016

News in brief: crackdown on drones; Egypt blocks Signal; Nook 7 warning

Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

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