Encrypted Mail ProtonMail Service Back Online After DDoS Attack

Users of the free encrypted email service ProtonMail can back to their e-mail after the service became inaccessible due to multiple DDoS attacks. The attacks were only directed at first ProtonMail, but spread out to the Swiss data center where the servers are.

This also went to the websites of different tech companies and banks offline. "Despite our efforts do not manage to stop the attack, but we are trying to come back online," as ProtonMail said earlier in a blog posting know. This morning followed another attack. A few hours before the early e-mail service via Twitter to a data center in Switzerland "brave enough" to host servers ProtonMail.

Many providers would be afraid because of the scale of the DDoS attacks that will make the service. Despite the request and the recent attacks to the website of ProtonMail is now accessible again. The email service has been developed with the help of scientists from Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the European research lab CERN.

Signal 2.0 Introduces Encrypted Chat On iOS

There is a new version of the Signal for iOS app appeared, which lets users both with other users and Signal Text Secure users can chat encrypted on Android. Through the app, users could already encrypted with each call . Signal was developed by Open Whisper Systems, which previously Text Secure and RedPhone developed for Android. The developers do not charge for their apps and let them see no ads. The development of the apps is fully funded by donations and grants.

The Signal app uses the existing telephone number and address book. According to the developer, users therefore no separate logins, usernames, passwords or PINs to remember or they run the risk of losing it. They also emphasize that both the developers themselves as others can not overhear the conversations or messages. "Everything in Signal is always encrypted end-to-end, and carefully designed to protect your communication." For additional openness Open Whisper Systems has the source code of the app made ​​available so that experts can verify the protocols and cryptography.