Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including internet-connected teddy bears, the latest on the Going Dark debate, and whether or not there’s a backdoor in Socat. They also preview next week’s Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain.
Tag Archives: Encryption
Encryption 101: What is it? When should I use it?
More than perhaps any other security topic, encryption really seems to perplex a lot of people. So, let’s take a closer look – from basics to best practice.
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WhatsApp to Share your Personal Data With Facebook
Recently the Facebook-owned messaging app dropped its $1 annual subscription fee to make WhatsApp Free for Lifetime.
Now, WhatsApp has plans to introduce a new feature that would allow its users to integrate their Facebook accounts with the most widely used messaging app.
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So far, the social media giant has been focusing on its own messaging platform, Messenger and both
Police Using Planes Equipped with Dirtbox to Spy on your Cell Phones
The Anaheim Police Department of California — Home of Disneyland — admitted that they used special Cell Phone surveillance technology, known as DirtBox, mounted on aircraft to track millions of mobile users activities.
More than 400 pages of new documents [PDF] published Wednesday revealed that Local Police and federal authorities are using, DRTBox, an advanced version of Dirtbox developed
Critical OpenSSL Flaw Allows Hackers to Decrypt HTTPS Traffic
The OpenSSL Foundation has released the promised patch for a high severity vulnerability in its cryptographic code library that let attackers obtain the key to decrypt HTTPS-based communications and other Transport layer security (TLS) channels.
OpenSSL is an open-source library that is the most widely used in applications for secure data transfers. Most websites use it to enable Secure
Apple Can Still Read Your End-to-End Encrypted iMessages
If you are backing up your data using iCloud Backup, then you need you watch your steps NOW!
In government fight against encryption, Apple has positioned itself as a staunch defender of its user privacy by refusing the federal officials to provide encryption backdoors into its products.
When it comes to Apple’s iMessage service, the company claims that it can’t read messages sent
Questions Linger as Juniper Removes Backdoored Dual_EC RNG
Juniper Networks has removed the backdoored Dual_EC DRBG algorithm from its ScreenOS operating system, but new developments show Juniper deployed Dual_EC long after it was known to be backdoored.
Threatpost News Wrap, January 8, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news: How the Dutch are opening encryption with open arms, the end of support for IE 8, 9, and 10, and the latest bounty offered up by Zerodium.
Mozilla Warns of SHA-1 Deprecation Side Effects
Mozilla warns Firefox users that the browser’s rejection of new SHA-1 certificates is keeping some users behind security scanners and antivirus software from reaching HTTPS sites.
SLOTH Attacks Up Ante on SHA-1, MD5 Deprecation
Researchers have demonstrated new collision attacks against SHA-1 and MD5 implementations in TLS, IKE and SSH.