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Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app’s authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.
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Apple Tracks You More Than You Think
Plus: WikiLeaks’ website is falling apart, tax websites are sending your data to Facebook, and cops take down a big phone-number-spoofing operation.
How to Use Passkeys in Google Chrome and Android
Google wants to make your digital life—in its ecosystem, anyway—passwordless and more secure.
A Matrix Update Will Patch Serious End-to-End Encryption Flaws
The messenger protocol had gained popularity for its robust security, but vulnerabilities allowed attackers to decrypt messages and impersonate users.
VPN Providers Flee India as a New Data Law Takes Hold
Many companies have pulled physical servers from the country as a mandate to collect customer data goes into effect.
How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging
The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.
Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption
The company says an expansion of privacy features in Messenger is unrelated to a high-profile Nebraska abortion case.
A Phone Carrier That Doesn’t Track Your Browsing or Location
The new Pretty Good Phone Privacy service for Android hides the data linking you to your mobile device.
A New Attack Easily Knocked Out a Potential Encryption Algorithm
SIKE was a contender for post-quantum-computing encryption. It took researchers an hour and a single PC to break it.
