WhatsApp’s Fight With India Has Global Implications

The country’s “traceability” requirement would undermine the privacy of the encrypted messaging app’s users far beyond its borders...

WhatsApp Sues Indian Government Over New Internet Regulations

WhatsApp on Wednesday fired a legal salvo against the Indian government to block new regulations that would require messaging apps to trace the "first originator" of messages shared on the platform, thus effectively breaking encryption protections. "Requiring messaging apps to 'trace' chats is th...

Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security, The W5H – Episode WHAT?

Teaching you to be a Natural Born Pillar! Last week, we took you through the “WHO” of securing a cloud migration here, detailing each of the roles involved with implementing a successful security practice during a cloud migration. Read: everyone. This week, I will be touching on the “WHAT” of...

Vital infrastructure: securing our food and agriculture

I don’t expect to hear any arguments on whether the production of our food is important or not. So why do we hardly ever hear anything about the cybersecurity in the food and agriculture sector? Depending on the country, agriculture makes up about 5 percent of the gross domestic product. That...

LocalTapiola: Authorization issue on 'valtakirjat' (/e2/verkkopalvelu/)

Issue The reporter found some inconsistencies related to authorizations and access between family members. Fix The application was fixed in a monthly release. Reasoning The issue was valid and the reporter provided a lot of valuable information for us to go on including traces, screenshots and...

New Wickr App Enables Secure, Self-Destructing Text Messages

Text messages are great, but they have the annoying property of being out of the sender’s control as soon as they’re sent. That’s resulted in all kinds of fun for the Internet, and it’s also presented a big opportunity for a security company to pick up the slack and impose some sanity and privacy...

Workflow permission to limit ability to link issues

We need to be able to limit the ability to link issues by the issue status. If we have two issues, and they are both closed, I do not want to be able to link them. If one or both are opened or in progress, I'd like to be able to create the link from the open issue. We are trying to use Jira for...

Workflow permission to limit ability to link issues

We need to be able to limit the ability to link issues by the issue status. If we have two issues, and they are both closed, I do not want to be able to link them. If one or both are opened or in progress, I'd like to be able to create the link from the open issue. We are trying to use Jira for...