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U.S. will still push for encryption workarounds

Facebook engages Safety Check after Brussels attacks

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Mar 23, 2016

U.S. will still push for encryption workarounds

Don't expect the U.S. government to back off its push for technology vendors to build encryption workarounds into their products, even as the FBI has acknowledged it may have a way to crack into an iPhone used in a high-profile mass shooting case. Read More ▶

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•	Facebook engages Safety Check after Brussels attacks

•	Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others publish new email security standard

•	Apple patches 56 vulnerabilities in OS X El Capitan, improves Live Photo sharing

•	Tor Project says it can quickly catch spying code

•	Google warns of Android flaw used to gain root access to devices

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Facebook engages Safety Check after Brussels attacks

Facebook activated its Safety Check service Tuesday for users living near Brussels after a series of terrorist attacks killed at least 34 people and wounded 200. Read More ▶

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Engineers from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Comcast, LinkedIn and 1&1 have devised a new mechanism that improves the encryption of email traffic. Read More ▶

Apple patches 56 vulnerabilities in OS X El Capitan, improves Live Photo sharing

Other El Capitan modifications fixed compatibility problems between the operating system and Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client, and improved the reliability of connecting a Mac to the Internet using the iPhone's Personal Hotspot tool. Read More ▶

Tor Project says it can quickly catch spying code

The Tor Project is fortifying its software so that it can quickly detect if its network is tampered with for surveillance purposes, a top developer for the volunteer project wrote on Monday. Read More ▶

Google warns of Android flaw used to gain root access to devices

An application that allows users to root their Android devices is taking advantage of a security flaw in the Linux kernel that has remained unpatched in Android since its discovery two years ago. Read More ▶

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