UK Secret Order requires Apple to give access to encrypted data to users

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The Washington Post announced on Friday that Apple has received a secret order from the United Kingdom office of the Interior Secretary, which requires the company to provide a way to access all user data protected from the extended data protection of the iCloud company data. The characteristic that Debuts at the end of 2022.is designed with an end -to -end encryption so that only the users themselves, not Apple themselves, have access to their data. As a result, compliance with the search for the United Kingdom will require Apple to disrupt the feature by incorporating a back door into it. Sources have told the publication that instead of installing a rear profit, Apple will probably withdraw support for advanced iCloud data protection in the UK. “Still, this concession would not fulfill the search for the United Kingdom for access to rear profit to the service in other countries, including the United States,” the publication noted.

The order was issued under the United Kingdom Act of Investigators of 2016. The United Kingdom of law enforcement agencies, not to mention cops in the US and other countries, have been supporting encryption for years and for years and Legislators have tried At different times for the background. The interior office told the publication in a statement: “We do not comment on operational issues, including confirmation or refusal to exist such notifications.” A spokesman for Apple declined to comment on the publication.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump a Golden Pager when the two met in Washington on Tuesday. The gift refers to an attack in September in Lebanon against the Hesbulah belligerent group, in which Bobby, caught by Bobby (and Wuki-Toki) exploded in coordinated explosions All over the country. Operation killed at least 42 peopleincluding some civilians and wounded at least 4000 civiliansAccording to Lebanese officials. The attack is widely attributed to Israel, but the country has neither confirmed nor denied its participation. At the Trump meeting apparently He gave Netanyahu a picture of the two, which he signed: “To Bibi, great leader!”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise informs dozens of users that their personal information was stolen during a violation in 2023. The company attributes the attack to Russian state hackers. The stolen data included the social security number, information about the driver’s license and credit card numbers. The incident began as a systemic penetration in May 2023 in HPE and Microsoft SharePoint Systems email. HPE publicly revealed the incident In January 2024

Giant Powerschool Edtech says at least 16,000 UK students have stolen their data as part of A Mass Data Violation in December that may have been affected 62 million students and 9.5 million teachers, most of them in the US and Canada. The attackers used compromised credentials to penetrate the customer support portal and then gain access to user data.

Powerschool spokesman Beth Kigbler confirmed to TechCrunch in a statement that students in four United Kingdom schools are affected by approximately 16,000 students. It is unclear if this is the total number of victims of the United Kingdom. Compromised data include the dates of the birth of students, contact information, some medical data and “other related information”.