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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the California-based digital rights group, has launched an initiative called “Fix It Already” that highlights 9 big privacy and security related issues that tech companies need to resolve immediately. The 9 issues are spread across different tech platforms including social media companies, operating system, enterprise platforms and more. As EFF describes, some of these issues exist dues to […]
PGP and S/MIME protocols are used to ensure that emails are being sent securely. However, users of these protocols are urged to stop sending emails using these protocols since a serious flaw has been identified that can expose contents of new and previous encrypted emails. Reportedly, Münster University of Applied Sciences’ professor of computer security […]
Email users who use PGP (based on OpenPGP) and S/MIME to encrypt and decrypt their communications are at “immediate risk.” The reason is that a team of European researchers has found critical flaws in the encryption standards and currently there are no fixes available. The vulnerabilities dubbed EFAIL are harmful as they can reveal the contents of […]
Tor has hired a former Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) executive director to lead its project that is aimed for making the cyber world lot more secure. Tor’s interim executive director, in a blog post, wrote: Shari Steele was selected in part for her experience in growing non-profits and “will be especially valuable as we continue […]
Short Bytes: According to a latest EFF research, it’s possible that you own printer is leaking the important information about you to the government. By printing some secret yellow codes on each document, Xerox, Brother, Dell, HP, and Canon printers are “helping” the Secret Service. A research team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has cracked […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued an alert, urging users to watch out for a spear phishing email campaign that’s infecting victims with the Sednit malware. This was brought to EFF’s attention by Google’s security team, after the electronicfrontierfoundation.org domain was flagged in one of their routine scans. The official EFF domain name is […]
A website domain has been discovered by Google’s cyber-security team to be impersonating the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Registered on August 4, 2015, electronicfrontierfoundation.org has since been targeting unknown victims with a spear phishing attack and spreading malware into their systems. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/fake-bbc-website-lures-victims-with-charlie-hebdo-misinfo/”]Fake BBC Website lures victims with Charlie Hebdo misinformation[/must] Unfortunately, the domain seems […]
In the annual report of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, big players like WhatsApp and AT&T have been ranked worst in protecting your data and privacy. In the annual “Who Has Your Back” scorecard, EFF tells us about the tech companies’ efforts to ensure transparency when it comes to doing a reasonable job to protect you […]