US Senate pushes for censorship, instead of looking for real solutions. Here's why KOSA legislation will fail to help the children,
and will ultimately pose a threat to free speech. Congress must stop this dangerous legislation now!
Despite two years of intense internal negotiations, the Council of the EU has again not been able to reach consensus about the Chat Control proposal.
In June, the European Council postponed a vote on the so called 'Upload Moderation' law, better known as Chat Control.
The proposal would have turned everyone into a suspect and undermined encryption, so we are taking the cancelled vote as a victory.
This success was mainly possible because Germany, the spearhead in the fight for privacy in Europe, has summoned all its power - politically and through raising public awareness
to stop this dangerous law.
This May, the Belgian Council presidency has repackaged the EU CSAM regulation to gain a majority support from EU member states. Yet,
the new draft version of the law does not address critical issues and remains a clear threat to end-to-end encryption. Together with
60+ organizations, we've sent an open letter to the EU council to underline the importance of strong encryption and citizens' right
to privacy.
In a time of fads and fastly changing trends, it’s easy for things to slip away and fall out of use, especially in terms of tech. Over the past ten years, there have been
many trends in tech that have had quick successes and sometimes failures followed just as quickly.
But over the years, one form of online communication has been a constant companion since its invention: e-mail.
Sandworm, the Russian hacking group behind the cyber attacks on the Ukrainian power grid are back. Newly discovered malware dubbed "Kapeka" found in Estonia
has been attributed to the group by threat researchers. This backdoor malware poses a threat not only to Ukraine, but also to other European nations who may
find themselves under attack either directly or as a spillover from the Russia-Ukraine war.
China was able to hack Microsoft's email servers in 2023. Microsoft did not detect the attack, but had to be informed about it
by US government officials.
This security scandal caused the US to investigate Microsoft's security standards. The now published report paints a devastating
picture: It recommends that Microsoft should hold off on new features until it has fixed its security issues and established an adequate corporate security culture.
The latest version of Microsoft's email client behemoth Outlook made its debut in September 2023 and it has
security and privacy experts concerned: The American tech giant
is collecting more data than ever from its users - and sharing it with an ever increasing partner network. But even worse are
its security issues: The new Outlook for Windows is no longer an email client, but a wrapper for Microsoft's 365 cloud that shares
not only the unencrypted content of your mailbox, contact lists,
and calendar events, but also sensitive login information like passwords with its servers located in the USA.
It’s no surprise your wondering if Dropbox is secure and safe – after all, it has had its fair share of security scandals.
In this guide we take a look at Dropbox’s security features and fill you in on how safe and private the cloud storage really is.
While most countries want to introduce new surveillance laws, Germany is taking the opposite approach: The Federal Ministry
for Digital and Transport Affairs (BMDV) has published a draft bill that will require email, messenger and other cloud
providers to use strong end-to-end encryption. The bill is celebrated by cryptography experts as well as privacy enthusiasts
as it enshrines the digital secrecy of correspondence.
Google and Yahoo, major Big Tech email providers, will be requiring bulk senders of 5000+ emails per day to deploy additional security measures to prevent
abuse, reduce spam, and stop phishing attacks. This comes as a major surprise when this technology itself is not new. These security measures are a great move, but none of these technologies are new.
Hopefully these new requirements will push other companies to up their email security configuration.
Riot is continuing to push their Vanguard anti-cheat software, now requiring League of Legends players to install software which runs upon booting your
computer even when you are not playing their games. Do we really want to make running closed-source kernel level software the new norm in online gaming?
Google is the top spy among all Big Tech companies. So to protect your privacy to the maximum, you need to stop using
Google services wherever possible. The most
difficult part when quitting Google is if you are using an Android phone as most apps use Google Push notifications.
But the number of open source apps refusing to let Google spy on their users
is constantly growing. Here is our top nine of FOSS apps that do not use Google Push!
