Microsoft Expanding Encryption to Protect Against Spying

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will elaborate the use of encryption to defend customer data, following accounts that governments are intercepting data traveling between users and servers or between business facts and figures centers. The business will furthermore step up its lawful efforts to protect personal facts and figures and will make its programs code more transparent so customers can comfort themselves Microsoft’s goods don’t contain “back doorways” permitting access to their data, the Redmond, Washington-based software company said in a mail on its authorized blog today. The encryption enhancements will be completed by the end of next year, it said.

“We are taking steps to double-check governments use lawful process rather than technological brute force to access customer data,” Microsoft said. “Government snooping possibly now constitutes an ‘advanced continual risk’ alongside sophisticated malware and cyberattacks.” Yahoo! Inc. and Google Inc. have furthermore broadcast they’ll beef up encryption, following accounts of spying by the U.S. National Security Agency. The NSA has tapped fiber-optic twisted cords abroad to siphon facts and figures from Google and Yahoo, circumvented or cleft encryption, and presented weaknesses and back doors into coding, according to accounts in the Washington mail, the New York Times and the U.K.’s Guardian bulletin founded on documents issued by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Finally, Your GSM SIM Card Hacked by Hackers

According to new reports coming from Group of Hackers, the Phone SIM cards can be hacked and the hacker can get the full control over your SIM Card’s data and plans. This hack can be done with some pair of text messages. The hacker cloaks some text messages and the other SIM card got hacked and loosens the control over his mobile SIM card with the Hacker. After this hack, the hacker can listen and make calls from the hacked SIM card, can do the online shopping from other mobile and steal the hacked SIM card data.

The hackers said that this will be done in only two minutes and can be done with only SIM cards having DES (Data Encryption Standard), the old system for security. The new SIM cards have the Triple DES system will not be affected with this hack. After this hack, the owners of SIM cards having old DES are worrying and seeing towards their cellular companies to upgrade their networks with newer triple DES system for more security.

As the data protection is already in discussions after NSA leaks that all major technology companies including the social media website have sometime in full control of National Security Agency of United States for stealing users data and information. After this news, the Cellular companies approaching SIM Card manufacturing companies for updating the security features to protect the consumer’s data and security.