The makers of the popular messaging app Confide said Wednesday it has patched multiple security vulnerabilities that could of allowed hackers to intercept messages sent using its secure end-to-end messaging platform.

FBI Director James Comey revived old rhetoric on strong encryption during a keynote at the Boston Conference on Cyber Security. He did not address the leak of CIA hacking tools or Russia during his talk.

A coalition of researchers and cryptographers are urging the Guardian to retract a story it published last week which suggested the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp contained a backdoor.

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook discuss security-wise what they hope will and won’t change under a Trump presidency, then discuss the news of the week, including SHA-1 deprecation, Carbanak’s return, and the WhatsApp “backdoor” debacle.

A chorus of security experts say allegations WhatsApp’s end-to-end messaging platform has a backdoor are wrong and explain why reports making the claim are false.

Claims of a security hole in WhatsApp’s messenger app were shot down by WhatsApp, which called the allegations false.

Academics audited the popular end-to-end encryption app Signal and their findings are encouraging.

The Article 29 Working Party, an EU privacy coalition urges WhatsApp to clarify that user information shared between the company and Facebook is compliant with data protection laws on the books in Europe.

The latest on the Yahoo breach, Germany’s problem with WhatsApp-Facebook, Facebook’s osquery tool for Windows, and Zerodium’s $1.5M iOS bounty are all discussed.

A German privacy regulator issued an order this week prohibiting Facebook to stop collecting user data on German WhatsApp users.