We put people first in everything we do at Messenger, and today we are beginning to roll out a new option within Messenger to better support conversations about sensitive topics. Your messages and calls on Messenger already benefit from strong security systems — Messenger uses secure communications channels (just like banking and shopping websites) as […]
Short Bytes: Facebook is testing a new end-to-end encryption feature for their Messenger app. Titled Secret Conversations, the feature is currently in testing phase and will be rolled out in the coming months. It seems as if the blue network has adopted some good things from their subsidiary which they acquired in 2014. We are […]
Unlike Apple’s iOS, Android is vulnerable to several key-extraction techniques. Privacy advocates take note: Android’s full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor maker Qualcomm, thanks to new research that reveals several methods to extract crypto keys off of a locked handset. Those methods include publicly available attack code […]
Short Bytes: A new security flaw related to the encryption measures in Android smartphones has posed a risk to millions of users. While some flaws related to Google have been patched, others related to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors have been labelled unpatchable. We recently told you about the dangerous malware that can root your Android smartphone without […]
How do companies regardless of size and industry prepare for ransomware attacks? A recent study revealed that businesses are considering saving up Bitcoins, just in case they get hit by these threats and can recover their confidential files in a short span of time. While we don’t recommend succumbing to the ransom payment as it doesn’t […]
University of Texas researchers find a way to merge two low-quality sources of random numbers into high-quality output. Two researchers from the University of Texas have published a paper that details a new algorithm for combining two sources of entropy to obtain a higher-quality random number that can be used to bolster encryption operations with […]
Pentagon’s DARPA Desperate for Developing One-Of-A-Kind Encryption Enabled Messaging App. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, needs a secure communication and transaction platform that utilizes all the encryption tactics and security features, which popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Richochet or Signal uses. However, DARPA also aims to create a decentralized structure just like the […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is calling for the development of a hacker-proof encryption App for the U.S. military. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is calling security experts to create a hacker-proof “messaging and transaction platform.” The project for a hacker-proof encryption App was proposed under the rules of the Small Business Technology Transfer […]
Viber to put encryption to their messaging app People are definitely worried about the threat of hacking and malware, as every other day we get to hear about some firm switching to more advanced encryption techniques so as to make its services safer and secure for users. The latest to join the encryption bandwagon is […]
Following WhatsApp’s move to add end-to-end encryption to its platform, another big messaging company is joining the wave of apps turning on expanded privacy features.Viber — a messaging app with 711 million+ users — today is introducing end-to-end encryption for all messages and calls on its platform, including group chats (you can chat with up to 200 people), and a […]
An individual going by the twitter handle leostone was able to create an algorithm that can generate the password used to decrypt a Petya encrypted computer. In my test this, this algorithm was able to generate my key in 7 seconds. The solution used to generate this key is called a genetic algorithm and is one that that mimics […]
WhatsApp has added end the end encryption but in this article, you will learn “everything is not what it seems” WhatsApp has been getting plaudits for recently updating their encryption. The popular messenger service app recently added end to end encryption to its devices thus restricting any outside interferences from seeing messages that are not […]
Apple is a company that has maintained and reinforced the statement over and over again that it takes consumer privacy very seriously — This approach is indeed inspiring and admirable. But there are certain loopholes left in Apple’s data encryption mechanisms that point fingers upon the comprehensiveness of the claims made by Apple about the security of […]
Comcast and LinkedIn are also backing the proposal. A group of independent security researchers and major Silicon Valley tech giants have submitted last Friday, March 18, 2016, a proposal for a new email protocol called SMTP STS (Strict Transport Security). STMP has never been a secure protocol, mainly because at the moment it was invented, in […]
The Government wants backdoor access to our devices so that it can protect us from terrorists and defend matters of national security. Even if its intentions are good, there are people out there that would abuse such a feature, security professionals attending the RSA conference agree. Endpoint protection and response, security and compliance solutions company […]
Google Stands with Apple on the Encryption Issue — Yes, this is Big and this comes as a Surprise no doubt! The fight between the FBI and Apple is not going to slow down any sooner and it is time now for Apple’s camaraderie and free-willed individuals to show support. In the most recent twists, […]
Backdoor code was committed by a former Oracle employee. Developers of Socat, a *NIX-based networking utility, have discovered and patched a security bug affecting its encryption capabilities and that weakened the tool enough to allow attackers to downgrade and break encrypted data streams. Socat is a command-line utility for *NIX-based operating systems that enables developers to […]
WhatsApp is working on making your chats more secure by introducing end-to-end encryption along with a much deeper Facebook integration. A developer by the name of Javier Santos shared a few screenshots on Google Plus that adheres to the changes mentioned above. When we connect the dots, WhatsApp’s co-founder Jan Koum spoke of adding end-to-end […]
GCHQ insists on shooting itself in the foot with backdoored VoIP encryption protocol, developed in-house by CESG. Britain’s intelligence agency, GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), has already developed a phone encryption protocol that contains a backdoor, as the government has been recently asking companies to provide. During the past year, both the US and UK governments […]
Short Bytes: Your perception about NSA might change a little after reading the statement by a former director of NSA, General Michael Hayden, where he is trying to see some value in the personal data. He defended end-to-end encryption by calling it good for America. NSA talking about the data privacy? Does not look absurd? […]
A new USB device series has been launched by Kingston aiming to provide secure and tamper-proof thumb drive to IT professionals while on the go. Kingston DataTraveler 2000 has been created for offering top-notch security to crucially important files that require transportation from one place to another or for preventing unauthorized employees from checking out […]