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Virtual Private Networks, also known as VPNs, have had something of an image change in the last few years. Historically, the term VPN has come with negative connotations – linked to users on the Dark Web hiding their identities from law enforcement. With that in mind, it’s interesting to see the cultural shift around VPN […]
Messaging apps are now becoming more and more secure to make it difficult or rather impossible for anyone to access your conversations. Switching to end-to-end encryption although offered a stronger layer of protection but still the unencrypted metadata like sender/receiver information, message sending time, etc., wasn’t secured enough and could be exploited by an attacker. […]
There is good news for pro-anonymity web users who rely upon the Tor browser for using the internet. The first ever mobile browser app for the Tor browser has been released by the Tor Project, the organization behind the Tor network. The mobile version of the Tor browser is available for download at the Google […]
Spreading fake news through WhatsApp was never so easy before. According to the latest research from Check Point security firm, WhatsApp users are at the risk of getting their private chats and group conversations hacked and exploited. Researchers discovered a new wave of attacks that allow cybercriminals to penetrate your messages on WhatsApp. This penetration […]
Google is taking the privacy quite seriously, and the new Chrome security update will undoubtedly put a significant toll on all your favorite websites. Google Chrome just launched a security feature with the release of Chrome 68. From now on, Chrome web browser will label all HTTP sites as “not secure.” All the HTTPS websites […]
Google says third-party developers can read your Gmail because you allow them. In 2014, during a lawsuit hearing, Google acknowledged that the company reads users’ emails and that Gmail users should not expect privacy. Then, in June last year, Google announced that it will stop analyzing user’s personal emails for targeted advertising purposes. However, now, […]
Last year, when security researchers tore apart WPA2’s security with KRACK exploit, questions were raised regarding its ability to protect billions of WiFi-compatible devices across the world. As a result, in January 2018, the WiFi Alliance announced a major upgrade to the WiFi security protocol called WPA3 (WiFi Protected Access III). Now, after almost six months […]
A team of information security experts released a warning about a group of vulnerabilities that affect users of PGP and S / MIME. EFF kept in communication with the research group and can confirm that the vulnerabilities present an immediate risk for the users of these tools in the communication by email. The details will be published […]
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 […]
On May 10th, 2018, the online hacktivist group Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on the official website of Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) by hacking and defacing its subdomain against the ongoing censorship in the country especially the recent ban on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. If you are not familiar with the situation in Russia, […]
Apple is currently testing iOS 11.4 beta update for iPhone and iPad devices. Apparently, the update aims at increasing the security of these devices and protecting them from physical threats. This means that it might become difficult or nearly impossible for the law enforcement agencies and third-party iPhone cracking firms like GrayShift and Cellebrite to crack iPhones and iPads as […]
A WhatsApp photo of drug dealer’s hand carrying ecstasy tablets allowed police to track down and bust a drug ring. A photo sent by 28-year-old drug dealer Elliott Morris through WhatsApp was used by authorities to identify his fingerprint. The case happened in Bridgend, South Wales in which the fingerprint helped the local police to compare the record of […]
The encrypted messaging app Signal is Edward Snowden’s favorite app. Leonardo Porpora (pseudonym n0sign4l), a 17-year-old high school student from Arezzo, Tuscany-Italy, has discovered an easy to exploit vulnerability in popular encrypted messaging app Signal for iOS that would let malicious hackers bypass the authentication process and access user chats. According to Leonardo, the vulnerability affects all […]
Grindr shared personal, HIV and geolocation-related data with two of its third-party contractors without informing users. As a way to make relationships safer, the gay flirting application Grindr allows users to share information about whether or not they are infected with HIV and the date of the last test. This data is extremely sensitive and private […]
You might rest assured after setting a Master Password in the Firefox web browser, but it’s not as secure as you think. Last year, Mozilla did a major overhaul of their browser in the form of Firefox Quantum. But the non-profit forgot to fix the security holes that exist in their ‘very fast’ web browser […]
For gaming fans, the release of Final Fantasy XV for Windows was the event of the month given the high level of popularity this game has managed to garner over the years and the fierce fan-following it boasts of. However, much to their disappointment there are reports of Square Enix’s game being cracked by a […]
Apple and its much-hyped APFS or Apple File System have been under hot waters lately as the fateful APFS has been diagnosed with another bug that Apple will have to fix, that too in the same week. On Thursday it was reported that a bug in various iOS and macOS apps were unable to display […]
Facebook’s Onavo VPN app the essence of situational irony – invading while claiming to protect privacy. Facebook has begun releasing a controversial app for its Android and iPhone (iOS) users which is a free VPN program from Onavo, an Israeli company bought by Facebook in October 2013, which promises to protect users’ browsing data. However, the […]
Tinder is an online dating app that was launched in 2012 and allows members to swipe through profiles to make social connections. However, according to security experts from, Checkmarx, a Tel Aviv based security company, Tinder has two critical security flaws that expose every swipe and match of yours to strangers including cybercriminals who are […]
On January 10, Cisco’s officially released its software platform Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) that can keep a check on network packet metadata so as to detect malicious traffic. The software was previously launched in June 2017 but it has remained in private preview ever since because only enterprises were able to use it. Now, Cisco […]