Apple begins testing end-to-end encryption for Apple-to-Android RCS

Now, Apple's latest iOS 26.4 Developer Beta 2 finally starts testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Apple-to-Android RCS messaging, leveraging the GSMA’s RCS Universal Profile 3.0, which uses ...

A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.

Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...
eWeek

OpenAI Introduces New Safeguards in ChatGPT to Prevent AI Prompt Injection

OpenAI launches Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk warnings to protect ChatGPT against prompt-injection attacks and reduce data-exfiltration risks.
GitHub

Database::isEncrypted is not correct with sqlcipher / sqlite-m-c unencrypted first bytes

There's a bit of a story behind this one. On Apple iOS, there is some sort of OS-level baked in auto-detection of SQLite databases to add a special case to locks that are allowed to be held when iOS ...
IEEE

EncryptoSnap: A Secure Image Encryption and Storage System

Abstract: With the rapid adoption of cloud-based storage and the increasing threat of data breaches, safeguarding sensitive multimedia content has become a critical concern. EncryptoSnap presents a ...
Ars Technica

How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...