COMPUTING & GAMING

Home Secretary demands encrypted messaging backdoors Newly instated Home Secretary Priti Patel has taken to  The Daily Telegraph  to call for the elimination of encrypted messaging ( The Register ). Commenting on Facebook's plans for secure encrypted messaging across its platforms, Patel said that "where systems are deliberately designed using end-to-end encryption, which prevents any form of access to content, no matter what crimes that may enable, we must act." Read More ...

Whistleblower reveals Cambridge Analytica work for Leave.EU A former director of Cambridge Analytica parent company SCL Group has  given parliament  a trove of emails and data indicating that the political consultancy firm had worked on the Leave.EUcampaign, despite the campaign's denials ( The Guardian ). In a letter to Damian Collins at the DCMS, Brittany Kaiser says that "chargeable work was completed for UKIP and Leave.EU, and I have strong reasons to believe that those datasets and analysed data processed by Cambridge Analytica as part of a Phase 1 payable work engagement." Read More ...

Hacker stole 100 million Capital One customers' data then tweeted about it A US hacker has been arrested for  breaching  a web application firewall and stealing the personal and account details of 106 million US and Canadian Capital One customers ( The Seattle Times ). Paige A. Thompson of Seattle was arrested by FBI agents following an investigation prompted earlier this month when Capital One was tipped off about the breach and an encrypted online cache of the stolen data. Thompson had posted messages about the files she'd obtained on Slack and Twitter in June. Capital One  says  it has patched the vulnerability she exploit...