Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups - The Verge
Apple will expand the number of “data categories” protected by end-to-end encryption from 14 to 23, with backups, Notes, and Photos now covered.
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Why Passkeys Will Be Simpler and More Secure Than Passwords - TidBITS
https://tidbits.com/2022/06/27/why-passkeys-will-be-simpler-and-more-secure-than-passwords/
Apple has unveiled its version of passkeys, an industry-standard replacement for passwords that offers more security and protection against hijacking while simultaneously being far simpler in nearly every respect.
EU data watchdog calls for Pegasus spyware ban | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/eu-data-watchdog-calls-for-pegasus-spyware-ban
The use of Pegasus spyware should be banned in the EU, the bloc’s data watchdog has advised, as it is a “gamechanger” offering unprecedented powers to intrude into targets’ lives.
The European data protection supervisor (EDPS) said a prohibition was necessary as the software, developed by the Israeli NSO Group, was able to secretly turn a mobile phone into a surveillance device.
Able to send or receive encrypted messages, download stored photographs, hear voice calls, access messages and secretly film through a phone’s camera, the spyware had the capacity to interfere “with the most intimate aspects of our daily lives”, the authority said.
2FA app with 10,000 Google Play downloads loaded well-known banking trojan | Ars Technica
A fake two-factor-authentication app that has been downloaded some 10,000 times from Google Play surreptitiously installed a known banking-fraud trojan that scoured infected phones for financial data and other personal information, security firm Pradeo said.
therecord.media
https://therecord.media/fbi-document-shows-what-data-can-be-obtained-from-encrypted-messaging-apps/
FBI document shows what data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps – The Record
Zoom Lied about End-to-End Encryption - Schneier on Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/08/zoom-lied-about-end-to-end-encryption.html
Zoom will pay $85M — to the class-action attorneys, and to users — for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user data to Facebook and Google without consent.
The proposed settlement would generally give Zoom users $15 or $25 each.
Where is end-to-end encryption for iCloud? – Ole Begemann
https://oleb.net/2020/icloud-end-to-end-encryption/
Here’s an incomplete list of data sources in iCloud that are not end-to-end-encrypted
Twitter prepares to pay up to $250 million for using security data for advertising
https://www.cyberscoop.com/twitter-ftc-fine-data-breach-passwords/
Twitter users could share their phone numbers with the company to improve their account security via its two-factor authentication feature
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Apple Dropped Plans for End-to-End Encrypted iCloud Backups After FBI Objected – mjtsai.com
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - Reuters
More than two years ago, Apple told the FBI that it planned to offer users end-to-end encryption when storing their phone data on iCloud
Under that plan, primarily designed to thwart hackers, Apple would no longer have a key to unlock the encrypted data, meaning it would not be able to turn material over to authorities in a readable form even under court order.
In private talks with Apple soon after, representatives of the FBI’s cyber crime agents and its operational technology division objected to the plan, arguing it would deny them the most effective means for gaining evidence against iPhone-using suspects, the government sources said.
When Apple spoke privately to the FBI about its work on phone security the following year, the end-to-end encryption plan had been dropped