WhatsApp Is Rolling Out Passkey Support for Encrypted Backups

In the beginning, WhatsApp users could not protect their chat backups with encryption—while all communications were encrypted end-to-end, backups weren't afforded the same protection. Since 2021, ...

WhatsApp can now use passkeys to secure your backups

WhatsApp is introducing a passwordless way to instantly secure your chat backups. The messaging platform is launching passkey ...
Government Technology

Berkeley, Calif., Moves to Encrypt Police Scanners

Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio communications.
Cryptopolitan

IBM’s 120-qubit breakthrough escalates quantum threat to Bitcoin encryption

IBM scientists entangled 120 qubits in a single coherent “cat state,” a record-breaking feat in quantum computing.

Qilin ransomware abuses WSL to run Linux encryptors in Windows

The Qilin ransomware operation was spotted executing Linux encryptors in Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to ...
IEEE

Secure Data Sharing in V2N Based on a Privacy-Preserving Identify-Based Broadcast Proxy Re-Encryption Plus Scheme

Abstract: In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), vehicle terminal and user information collection are the main data sources. But sharing these data can easily violate personal privacy and data security.
IEEE

Efficient Hardware Accelerator Design for AES Encryption Using High-Level Synthesis Techniques

Abstract: In this work, we present the design and implementation of a hardware accelerator for AES encryption and decryption using AMD Vitis HLS and Xilinx Vivado. The primary objective of this work ...