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Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides

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Oh, Canada. The Great White North is the latest country to contemplate legislation that could essentially mandate backdoors and increase data retention in encrypted services. The proposed changes have prompted the Canadian anti-censorship company Psiphon VPN—which keeps millions of Iranians online during repressive internet shutdowns—to say it will leave the country if the bill passes. And Psiphon is not the only one.

Encrypted messaging app Signal has said it would exit the Canadian market because the legislation would require unacceptable changes to its open source projects. Apple and Meta have criticized the bill, and DuckDuckGo and NordVPNsay they would consider pulling their services, too. But as countries around the world...

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AWS says hackers tried to exploit PHP security issues days before fix — as Cloudflare CEO says it saw a huge rise…

* Evidence suggests PHP2Shell exploitation began days before public disclosure, indicating prior attacker knowledge * Researchers say real-world attacks remain limited, though exploitation attempts rapidly surged after disclosure * Millions of PHP systems remain exposed, with experts urging immediate patching of supported versions The exploitation of php2shell began four days before the vulnerabilities