Terrorist organisations are increasingly using high-grade encryption technologies to prevent being caught by the law enforcement. But, that was not in the case of last year’s Paris attacks that killed 129 people, as Encryption seems to have played little to no role.
So, Who was the Real Culprit Behind the Attacks?
The ‘Burner’ Phones.
Burner Phones, or Prepaid mobile phones, are
Johns Hopkins University researchers disclosed crypto vulnerabilities in iOS that put iMessage security at risk to advanced attackers.
RSA is over and it’s back to work for Dridex. Botnet operators have hardened the encryption on their settings files, a move that complicates detecting the next steps of this banking malware.
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The legal battle between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is turning ugly with each passing day.
Apple is fighting with the federal authorities over iPhone encryption case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) requires Apple’s assistance to unlock an iPhone 5C belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said explicitly that
Let’s Encrypt has achieved another big milestone by issuing 1 million free Transport Layer Security (TLS) SSL Certificates to webmasters who wish to secure the communications between their users and domains.
Let’s Encrypt – operated by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) – is an absolutely free, and open source certificate authority recognized by all major browsers, including
Unlike desktops, your mobile devices carry all sorts of information from your personal emails to your sensitive financial details. And due to this, the hackers have shifted their interest to the mobile platform.
Every week new exploits are discovered for iOS and Android platform, most of the times separately, but the recently discovered exploit targets both Android as well as iOS devices.
And the Winners of this year’s Turing Award are: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman.
The former chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Whitfield Diffie and the professor at Stanford University Martin E. Hellman won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, which is frequently described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”.
Turing Award named after Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician and computer
A new deadly security vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL that affects more than 11 Million modern websites and e-mail services protected by an ancient, long deprecated transport layer security protocol, Secure Sockets Layer (SSLv2).
Dubbed DROWN, the highly critical security hole in OpenSSL was disclosed today as a low-cost attack that could decrypt your sensitive, secure HTTPS
Even if Locky is no longer a hot news story, the financial success of this ransomware for the cybercriminals means that it – or a new and improved version of it – will be coming around again. Here are four lessons to be learned from the latest round of ransomware.
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There are several encrypted messaging apps for mobile and desktop platforms that shipped with “The Most Secure” tagline but ends up in de-anonymizing the real identity of its users in some or the other way.
In fact, very few encrypted messaging apps available today deal with the core problem of Metadata.
The majority of apps offer end-to-end encryption that kept the content of your
