Banks have agreements with certain other banks in the network, and so when a payment instruction is received, payments are made. In theory, outsiders shouldn't have access and so SWIFT should be difficult to hack.
_WhatsApp_ was acquired by Facebook a couple of years ago, and they have just announced that their messenger application is now fully encrypted, end-to-end.
Many companies store confidential documents in the cloud, often unknown to companies themselves. Individuals simply use cloud-based services for collaboration because they are convenient.
You might remember the infamous Jeep hack last year, in 2015. In a scary demonstration, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated their ability to remotely control almost everything, including steering and braking.
Unfortunately, security and privacy are not necessarily high priorities for many technology companies. There are also the issues of licensing and supply of services, which come down to vendor trust.
We posted a story on Friday about how Amazon has disabled device encryption on its FireOS devices. It was an optional feature that few used, but a very useful one - and those users kicked up quite a fuss.
While Apple battles the FBI over their demand for software to unlock an iPhone, Amazon has disabled encryption in its Fire devices. Any device running FireOS 5 or later will no longer support encryption.
A sophisticated new piece of android malware is targeting Android users of banking apps for the largest banks in Australia, New Zealand and Turkey.
Apple today released a letter to its customers that is extraordinary in its content, and strongly related to today's post about the UK's "snooper's charter"
Some of our customers may not be aware of how easy it is to run CompleteFTP on Amazon's EC2 cloud platform.