ProtonMail expands encrypted email service to desktop clients including Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail

Encrypted email service ProtonMail has come a long way since its global launch 18 months ago, having expanding into VPNs, started targeting small businesses, grown into multiple languages, and — most recently — launched an encrypted contacts manager. Now, the Swiss company is making its core service available in desktop email clients that support IMAP and SMTP, including Microsoft Outlook, […]

Strange Secrets Lie In Sorry, James’ Encrypted Chat Logs

Sorry, James casts players as James, a security engineer at Mantis Corp, a tech company that specializes in weapons. Which is why it’s very, very odd that James’ current job involves going through the text files and chat logs of a couple of people in a romantic relationship. Why does his employer have him doing […]

‘Huge problem’: FBI director says agency couldn’t hack into nearly 7,000 encrypted devices

Federal agents failed to hack into 6,900 mobile devices protected by encryption, the FBI director told a police chiefs’ conference, amid heated debate over privacy and government control over cyberspace. The FBI was unable to retrieve content from more than 6,900 mobile devices, agency director Christopher Wray said on Monday at the International Association of […]

Google’s annual report shows more web traffic is encrypted

For several years now, Google has been exerting pressure to increase the usage of HTTPS across the internet. By defaulting to secure connections on both ends, users can be protected from anyone who may intercept or even manipulate data as it flows back and forth — quite useful in a world where you can’t even […]

Encrypted email service ProtonMail expands beyond English into 7 new languages

Encrypted email service ProtonMail has come a long way since its global launch back in March 2016, introducing two-factor authentication (2FA), Tor support, and even rolling out a standalone VPN product. But a major gap in ProtonMail’s “global” credentials so far has been its lack of language support. The service offered just an English interface at […]

Encrypted email service ProtonMail targets businesses with new centralized admin controls

ProtonMail has unveiled its latest initiative to make its encrypted email services available to the masses, as the Swiss startup quietly rolled out a new Professional subscription tier aimed at businesses. ProtonMail was founded out of CERN in 2013, and after a period in beta the company launched its service globally last March, with the promise of client-side encryption […]

German police will be able to hack WhatsApp, other encrypted messages by end of 2017 – leaked report

German police will be able to use surveillance software by the end of the year that can hack into people’s smartphones and read encrypted messages in such services as WhatsApp, says a report that cites a leaked document. A new version of the German police’s Remote Communication Interception Software (RCIS), which is used for surveillance […]

IBM’s new mainframe keeps everything encrypted, all the time

Data breaches are bad enough by themselves, but they’re made worse when companies don’t bother to (or can’t) encrypt all their info. It’s tantamount to giving hackers the keys to the kingdom. But what to do? IBM thinks it has a simple solution: encrypt absolutely everything. Its latest Z mainframe system now has enough power […]