X Chat, X's dedicated end-to-end encrypted messaging app, has disappeared from both Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store.
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An investigation by the EFF found that cops treat mass surveillance as a joke, typing reasons for searches such as "LMAO," "LOL," and other non sequiturs or keyboard mashing in leu of an actual reason.
Revolut disclosed customers' passports, selfies, and full transaction histories to a fake government employee over email.
Two Trezor breaches, more healtcare companies, and more identification documents. This week was a mess.
Microsoft patched a record 973 vulnerabilities this September, beating their other records from earlier this year.
Apple today announced Siri Recap, a new feature in their upcoming Apple Watches that will allow it to generate a summary of conversations you have throughout the day.
Nitter, an alternative frontend for X.com, announced that they "will be back up and running shortly" after a cease and desist from X Corp.
GrapheneOS announced that they are overhauling the default apps into "modern" apps, including RCS support in the messaging app, as well as implementing a secure clipboard feature to stop apps from accessing it without permission.
This week saw data breaches from more hospitals, a toy company, an age verification service, an update to a French breach from last year, and more.
Signal has merged numberless accounts into the code as a feature in the upcoming Android beta 8.26, although you can't use it yet.
A bug in Google Messages is causing some people's texts from months or years ago to be sent to random people instead.
After GrapheneOS previously hit a roadblock porting to the Pixel 11 due to a missing security feature, they found the hardware does have "at least bare minimum support for MTE."
Researchers at VulnCheck found multiple backdoors in routers from Chinese manufacturer Zbtlink allowing a remote server root access to the router with no authentication.
GrapheneOS has completed a partial port to the new Pixel 11 devices, but they say they're unable to complete it due to Google dropping ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) support.
Once again, multiple hospitals have been hit this week, as well as apparel companies, airports, and more.
Windows is making new app-level permissions such as location, camera, and microphone available to Windows Insiders users.
Meta's end-to-end encrypted messenger remains popular around the world, so it's still a win that they offer additional protections to users.
The popular privacy frontend Nitter has received a cease and desist letter from X Corp demanding a permanent takedown of the project's repository and all instances.
Researchers at Securelist discovered a new type of Android malware that infects car infotainment systems without any user interaction using the built-in updater.
In a currently active malware campaign, hackers are now hiding Windows malware inside lists of plain English words.
The CEVA Logistics breach continues to impact companies, a people search site left their databases exposed, and a couple small updates on the scope of previously-disclosed breaches.
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