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On Super Tuesday, America's voting technology will be under intense scrutiny - CNBC On Super Tuesday, America's voting technology will be under intense scrutiny - CNBC Posted: 02 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PST Shelves and shelves of sequestered voting machines, wrapped with yellow caution tape, sitting unrecorded, and unused, at the Fulton County Election Preparation Center in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday November 6, 2018, after 700 voting machines in Fulton County were sequestered due to a lawsuit over paper ballots. Melina Mara | The Washington Post via Getty Images March 3 is Super Tuesday , when voters in 14 states will be making primary election candidate decisions. However, America's election technology has turned out to be a vital issue itself, as many voters worry about the security of the process. The Iowa caucus on Feb. 3 was a significant cause. It took three days for results to be reported from Iow...

Has Houseparty really hacked your phone and stolen your bank details? - Naked Security Has Houseparty really hacked your phone and stolen your bank details? - Naked Security Posted: 30 Mar 2020 01:12 PM PDT by Paul Ducklin If you're at home right now – and who isn't? – then you've probably heard of Houseparty. It's a social networking app that came out back in 2015 and was bought by Epic Games – famous for Unreal and Fortnite – in the middle of 2019. The name gives you a good idea of what is does: simply put, you go online, hang out and other members (players?) can join you in your "room" and engage in face-to-face chat, or as close to face-to-face as you can get in a virtual world. Think of it as a multiuser video call that friends and family – or, indeed, anyone, if that's your thing – can wander in and say, "Hi." As the app makers themselves put it early last year: We're the ...

Apple iPhone users, here's why you may want to 'avoid' Zoom app - Times of India Apple iPhone users, here's why you may want to 'avoid' Zoom app - Times of India Posted: 31 Mar 2020 08:11 PM PDT Video conferencing app Zoom has become one of the most popular free apps for iPhone and Android phone users with sudden surge in people working from homes due to coronavirus pandemic. However, it may not be a best choice for iPhone users as a new report by The Intercept claims that Zoom meetings aren't end-to-end encrypted as claimed by the company. On the other hand, for iPhone users, FaceTime is a better choice as FaceTime calls are always end-to-end encrypted, including group FaceTime calls with up to 32 participants. As per the report, a Zoom spokesperson confirmed the same and said, "Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption for Zoom video meetings. Zoom video meetings us...

Signal introduces ephemeral media messages in its beta app - Android Police Signal introduces ephemeral media messages in its beta app - Android Police Signal's encrypted video calling is now available to all - Engadget Keybase offers encrypted chat where you control all the pieces - Macworld WhatsApp Brings Fingerprint Unlocking to Android - PCMag US Government Report Reveals Its Favourite Way to Hack iPhones, Without Backdoors - VICE What Australia's new encryption laws mean for you and your phone - The Australian Financial Review Government Report Reveals Its Favorite Way to Hack iPhones, Without Backdoors - VICE Finally, an easy way to encrypt calls on your iPhone - Digital Trends Signal, the open-source encrypted messaging app, is now available for desktop - Digital Trends Google's Adiantum Encryption Is Designed for Low-End Devices - PCMag Signal introduces ephemeral medi...

Zoom Meetings Do Not Support End-to-End Encryption - The Intercept Zoom Meetings Do Not Support End-to-End Encryption - The Intercept Posted: 31 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PDT Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end encryption, widely understood as the most private form of internet communication, protecting conversations from all outside parties. In fact, Zoom is using its own definition of the term, one that lets Zoom itself access unencrypted video and audio from meetings. With millions of people around the world working from home in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus, business is booming for Zoom, bringing more attention on the company and its privacy practices , including a policy, later updated, that seemed to give the company permission to mine messages and files shared during meetings for the purpose of ad targeting. Still, Zoom offers reliability, ease...

How to Encrypt Android Devices in 2020: Securing Your Phone - Cloudwards How to Encrypt Android Devices in 2020: Securing Your Phone - Cloudwards Posted: 06 Feb 2020 12:00 AM PST With data breaches, leaks and hacks occurring on a regular basis, users are paying more and more attention to online security and encryption technology. However, someone gaining physical access to your device is an often-overlooked avenue of attack. To protect against this, we'll show you how to encrypt Android devices and keep your apps, accounts and personal data safe. How to Enable Encryption on Android Enabling device encryption on your Android device is a very straightforward process, and many phones even have it enabled right out of the box. In order to complete the encryption process, your phone must be unrooted (we'll discuss this more later), plugged in and have at least 80 percent battery remaining. If the process is interrupted for any reaso...