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Wickr Inc, the secure collaboration platform known for its strong end-to-end encryption and the ability to securely operate on Zero Trust Networks (ZTN), has entered a strategic partnership in Australia with CISTECH and AUCloud, Australia’s sovereign cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, to bring secure collaboration and communications to Australia’s government. Read more…

Political campaigns are flocking to encrypted messenging apps to avoid being the next big target after the Hillary Clinton campaign’s emails were exposed by hackers in 2016. But these apps are far from a panacea if other campaign security practices are subpar.  That’s the blunt assessment from Joel Wallenstrom, chief executive of encrypted

A nonprofit co-founded by former campaign managers for Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney officially launched this week to provide free or low-cost security technology and services to federal election campaigns. Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC) basically acts as an intermediary to negotiate software licenses and service contracts from security vendors and

WASHINGTON — Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC), a new nonprofit and nonpartisan organization committed to bringing cybersecurity tools and resources to federal election campaigns, announced today that Michael Kaiser has been named the organization’s first president and CEO. Additionally, the group released a list of initial services that will be offered

Over 8 million people use Slack every single day to communicate in online teams, for work and sometimes play — including us here at CNET — and that number’s about to get bigger now that Slack is kinda-sorta merging with its rival, Atlassian’s Hipchat. Read more…

Ephemeral messaging apps, which automatically delete data after a set timeframe, can present significant roadblocks to in-house compliance and e-discovery operations. So why is their enterprise use growing? Read more…

Slack, WhatsApp, Snapchat And Ghost Protocol All Security Risks, Says Wickr CTO “I believe the future of communication, “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in March, “will shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and messages and content won’t stick

The Cybersecurity 202: Security pros defend DNC’s handling of hacking false alarm On Wednesday, the DNC revealed that it alerted the FBI about an unsuccessful attempt to hack its voter database, sparking fears that it was being targeted again by foreign adversaries. By the end of the day, however, the

Wickr gets slicker with fresh network tricker: Privacy-protecting domain fronting alternative emerges Encrypted comms service Wickr has hooked up with Psiphon, a maker of censorship circumvention tools, to provide an alternative to domain fronting as a defense against prying eyes online. Source: The Register August 24, 2018VIEW ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Wickr Partners with Psiphon to Improve Network Availability Despite government demands for backdoors into end-to-end encryption, it remains a legitimate requirement for business. Political tensions affect, but don’t stop, international commerce; and business teams visiting foreign countries need to know that their communications are secure and delivered. The problem is

After Google and Amazon Drop Anti-Censorship Support, Wickr Steps In Now, encrypted messaging platform Wickr is starting to roll out a service to its users that includes domain fronting spread across a variety of infrastructure, meaning that customers and soon free users should be able to use the feature to

Traveling to China for work? Punch through the Great Firewall and securely connect with your home office Unlike Signal and Tor, which are designed to offer the greatest political freedom to the greatest number of people, Wickr and Psiphon are designed with very different goals in mind. Wickr is a