Google, known for its security practices, has finally brought HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to google.com to strengthen its data encryption. HSTS helps protect against eavesdroppers, man-in-the-middle attacks, and hijackers who attempt to spoof a trusted website. Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer all support HSTS. "HSTS prevents people from accidentally navigating to HTTP URLs by ...
After Google’s decision not to provide end-to-end encryption by default in its new chat app, Allo, raised questions about the balance of security and effective artificial intelligence, one of the company’s top security engineers said he’d push for end-to-end encryption to become the default in future versions of Allo. Allo debuted with an option to ...
Google is disclosing how much of the traffic to its search engine and other services is being protected from hackers as part of its push to encrypt all online activity. Encryption shields 77 percent of the requests sent from around the world to Google’s data centers, up from 52 percent at the end of 2013, ...
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai lent support to Apple Inc.'s pushback against a federal order to help law enforcement break into the locked iPhone of an alleged shooter in the San Bernardino, Calif., attacks. Mr. Pichai wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that “forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise users’ privacy.” A federal judge Tuesday ...
Microsoft, Google and Facebook are urging U.K. officials not to undermine encryption as they work on laws that would authorize forcing communications service providers to decrypt customer traffic. In a joint written submission to the U.K. Parliament the three U.S.-based companies lay down several areas of concern, which, if not addressed, they say could damage ...
Companies such as Apple and Google will be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new UK laws. Set to be unveiled on Wednesday (November 4), internet and social media companies will no longer be able to provide encryption so advanced that they cannot decipher it, according to The Daily Telegraph. It will see tech firms ...
The government has blamed a junior official - a scientist — for the encryption policy fiasco, saying he was responsible for the poor and confusing wording of the document and failed to seek advice from his higher ups before making it public. Several officials in the communications and IT Ministry that ET spoke to admitted ...
Google recently announced enhanced security support for its cloud customers by granting them the ability to hold the encryption keys to their data. These customer-supplied encryption keys for the Google Cloud Platform follow the example set by other cloud industry leaders such as Amazon Web Services and Box and position the tech giant as an ...
Bush, the former governor of Florida, said Tuesday that encryption "makes it harder for the American government to do its job." That job would be, according to Bush, "making sure that evildoers aren't in our midst," echoing a phrase frequently used by his brother President George W. Bush to describe the threat of radical Islamic ...
If you're using Google Hangouts as your main messaging service, you might want to know that Hangouts doesn't use end-to-end encryption (E2EE), a must-have feature for messaging services in the post-Snowden world. This was recently confirmed during a Reddit Ask Us Anything (AUA) session by Google's Richard Salgado, Director for Law Enforcement and Information Security, ...
