Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure

Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, ...

Ransomware gang exploits Cisco flaw in zero-day attacks since January

The Interlock ransomware gang has been exploiting a maximum severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Cisco's ...

Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...
InfoQ

Java 26 Delivers Language Innovation, Library Improvements, Performance and Security

Oracle has released version 26 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first non-LTS release since JDK ...
Opinion

Meta sabotaged Instagram's end-to-end encryption rollout to justify killing it

Meta is getting rid of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Instagram's DMs. There's no second guessing there. However, the story behind why Meta is going through with the change is a lot more complicated ...

Java 26 with JVM optimizations, HTTP/3, and finally no Applet API

The current OpenJDK 26 is strategically important and not only brings exciting innovations but also eliminates legacy issues like the outdated Applet API.

LeakNet ransomware uses ClickFix, Deno runtime in stealthy attacks

The LeakNet ransomware gang is now using the ClickFix technique for initial access into corporate environments and deploys a ...
MacRumors

Apple Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta

Apple is testing secure messaging between Android and iOS devices with iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4. The updates introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, a security ...
9to5google

Apple starts testing end-to-end RCS encryption on iPhone, but without Android support

Apple’s latest iOS 26.4 beta is now available for iPhone owners, with an added perk for RCS messaging – end-to-end encryption. But, unfortunately, that doesn’t work with Android yet. Within the ...
9to5Mac

Lawsuit claims WhatsApp encryption is a lie; cryptography professor weighs in

Both the founders of WhatsApp and current owner Meta state that the app uses end-to-end encryption, meaning that nobody outside the chat can access the content. A lawsuit claims that this isn’t true ...
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 ...
New Scientist

End-to-end encryption: Best ideas of the century

We all keep secrets. Whether you are trying to protect messages to loved ones, company accounts or vital state intelligence, the technology that allows you peace of mind in our increasingly online ...