The U.K.’s Home Office hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch a publicity campaign against end-to-end encryption, according to documents reviewed by Rolling Stone. A major objective is to mobilize public opinion against Facebook’s decision to encrypt its Messenger application. The me...

A ransomware attack against school website infrastructure provider Finalsite potentially impacted thousands of schools, InfoSecurity Magazine reports. Finalsite, which serves more than 8,000 schools worldwide, said it identified ransomware on its systems Jan. 4 but has found no evidence data was com...

Accellion reached a $8.1 million agreement in a nationwide class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Reuters reports. The lawsuit was brought against Accellion over a breach in its legacy file transfer product, a platform that allowed companies to securel...

Federal investigators say they accessed encrypted Signal messages sent before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol and used them as evidence to charge the leader of a far-right militia group and other defendants, CNBC reports. A complaint filed by the Department of Justice refers to Signal mes...

A third party has recently scraped the contents of TransUnion's TLO and posted it elsewhere on the internet, Vice News’ Motherboard reports. TLO is a database containing personal information, including peoples’ physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and the contact details of their relat...