The UK’s secret request is to allow Apple to access the encrypted data for users

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Out of US government news, WIRED conducted Investigation of more than 300 electronic attacks in the past five years against school K -12 She found that the victims’ schools sometimes obscure the important information about the scale and scope of violations from affected students and parents. In a little better news, data appears from Cryptocrency Trading Cainalysis The ransom payments decreased dramatically in the second half of 2024. Experts, though, fear that brief rehabilitation may be short -term and may not be easy for defenders to keep them.

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The Washington Post reported on Friday that Apple received a secret order from the office of the UK Minister of the Interior imposes the company to provide a way to access any user data protected by protecting the advanced data of the company for iCloud. The feature, which He appeared for the first time at the end of 2022It is designed with encryption from run to end, so only users themselves, not Apple, can access their data. As a result, compliance with the UK request will require Apple to break the feature by building the back door in it. The published sources told that instead of installing the rear door, Apple is likely to withdraw the support of the advanced data protection of iCloud in the United Kingdom. “However, this privilege will not fulfill the UK request to reach service in other countries, including the United States,” noted.

The order was issued according to the law of the extensive investigation authorities in the United Kingdom for the year 2016. Law enforcement agencies defended the United Kingdom, not to mention the police in the United States and other countries, The lawmakers have tried At different times to delegate the background. “We are not commenting on operational issues, including, for example, to confirm or deny any such notifications,” the Ministry of Interior told the Post in a statement. Apple spokesman refused to comment on the post.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise notifying dozens of users that their personal information was stolen during a breach of 2023. The company attaches the attack to the country -supported infiltrators. The stolen data included social security numbers, driver’s license information and credit card numbers. The accident began as a storming of the regime in May 2023 in HPE email and Microsoft SharePoint systems. Hpe It publicly revealed the accident In January 2024.

The giant PowerSchool Edtech says that at least 16,000 students in the United Kingdom have been stolen as part of a Huge data breach in December Which – which I was affected 62 million students and 9.5 million teachers, most of them in the United States and Canada. The attackers used the accreditation data that was at risk to infiltrate the company’s customer customer support portal and then access user data.

Powerschool, PowerSchool, confirmed on Techcrunch in a statement stating that students in four schools in the UK were affected by “about 16,000 students”. It is not clear whether this is the total number of UK victims. Data at risk includes student birth dates, communication information, some medical data and “other relevant information”.