INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Another week in quarantine.
As the world adjusts to working from home under mandatory stay-at-home orders, hackers are keeping busy
Microsoft said this week that coronavirus-related attacks are on the rise but still make up just a fraction of the overall malicious
Cybersecurity companies seem to be faring mostly well — in part thanks to the uptick of attacks, but also the challenges of securing the
workforce as hundreds of millions work from home.
But as coronavirus dominates the headlines, the wheels of government keep turning
Lawmakers are trying to push through a controversial bill that critics say would undermine encryption, which keeps everything from your
phone to your online banking accounts safe
One startup is bracing for a showdown
Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app, sounded the alarm when it warned this week that it may exit the United States market if
Congress passes the controversial EARN IT Act.
In a blog post this week, Signal engineer Joshua Lund wrote it would ¬ be possible for a
small nonprofit like Signal to continue to operate within the United States.
Will encryption become the latest causality of this tumultuous
year?
THE BIG PICTURE
Zoom slapped with more security woes, but calls in the cavalry
A growing number of companies and governments, from
SpaceX and Google to Taiwan and Germany, have banned Zoom
Not even the United States Senate is taking any chances with the video-calling software, which has faced a steady stream of headlines
critiquing its security practices and privacy policies
But Zoom popularity, undoubtedly sparked by the mass working from home to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, seems to be
