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Tutanota, an email encryption service is gaining popularity all across the globe and has seen a rapid growth since the start of 2017. In the past month, the company has gained over half a million users and is now celebrating 2 million users in total. After the Snowden leak, it became abundantly clear that different […]
CheckPoint, an Israeli security firm, unveiled this Wednesday a security flaw in encrypted messages that could affect the web version of WhatsApp and Telegram. The platforms were alerted about the vulnerability on March 8th and have already fixed the issue in both messengers by changing the file upload validation protocols to protect against the attack. The flaw […]
Short Bytes: Google has open sourced the code of its E2EMail encryption system, which is available as a simple-to-use Chrome app. Now Google calls it an independent project that exchanges OpenPGP mail. When one launches the E2EMail app, it just shows the encrypted mails. Currently, it just only supports text-based email messages. Google introduced E2EMail system as a Chrome […]
According to Google’s research team, they have successfully broken Secure Hash Algorithm 1 encryption, commonly referred to as SHA-1, which is a vital internet security tool. They believe that with this new breakthrough they can limit the widespread use of encryption technology. It is indeed a breakthrough since SHA-1 has been touted as vulnerable so […]
Short Bytes: Google has achieved the first successful SHA-1 collision attack. By creating a specially crafted PDF prefix, the researchers were able to generate 2 documents with the same SHA-1 digest. Using its cloud infrastructure, Google was able to compute the mammoth collision. After this, Google expects that the usage of the vulnerable SHA-1 encryption hash […]
Your standard email service provider does not give you highly secure email services. In most cases, you are exposed to dangers every time you use your standard email communication services. Here are some of the dangers that you get exposed to when you are using your ordinary email communication service. 1 The emails that you […]
Short Bytes: The life of a former police sergeant Francis Rawls is in turmoil. He is living like a prisoner for the last 16 months without any criminal charges. The reason–he is accused of possessing child pornography on his devices including MacBook and encrypted hard drives. His condition will remain so until he complies with the […]
Short Bytes: Cryptkeeper is a popular Linux encryption application that’s used to encrypt your valuable data. But, it’s not as safe as you think. A bug has was recently discovered that allows universal decryption using a single letter password “p.” Debian developer Simon McVittie has advised the dev team to take it out of Debian altogether. Encryption apps […]
Scientists from the Binghamton University in New York have explored with using a person’s heartbeat as a password for encrypting and then decrypting personal data. Researchers say that each person possesses a unique electrocardiograph (ECG), which just like fingerprints and iris, can be used for authentication. Binghamton researchers say that systems can be created that […]
ProtonMail, launched in 2014 by a group of MIT and CERN experts, is the largest email encryption service provider in the world having more than two million users. It is the preferred emailing platform of activists and journalists who need to keep information confidential. In its latest announcement, ProtonMail’s co-founder Dr. Andy Yen stated that […]
Update (13:30 IST): Open Whisper Systems, whose Signal protocol is used in WhatsApp, has claimed that the “secret backdoor” story is not true. The ability to change the security keys for undelivered messages reduces users’ burden in case the recipient’s keys change during the course of message transfer, i.e., if he reinstalls WhatsApp on his […]
Short Bytes: Popcorn Time is a ransomware in development which opts for a strange but more dangerous mode to spread itself. It offers free encryption to the victim if he infects two other people using the referral link facilitated by the ransomware. It starts deleting the encrypted files if a wrong encryption key is entered by […]
If this had happened in the United States, the FBI would have spent millions of dollars from taxpayers money and employed an overseas company to unlock the suspect’s iPhone but back in the United Kingdom things are calm and traditional. Also Read: Turns out iPhone 5c can be hacked with a $100 hardware To prove this, […]
After Samba ransomware that encrypts victims’ hard drives and CryPy ransomware known for encrypting each file individually here comes Fantom, a ransomware that uses full-screen Windows updates progress UI to get users to wait while it encrypts their files. It is important to always keep your system and all software updated with the latest patches […]
“No More Ransom” Campaign Saves the Day for 2,500 Ransomware Victims Saving Over 1.3 Million Euros. Ransomware can easily be regarded as the biggest threat of this age as it affects the entire computer system and there is apparently no way to get your data back unless you pay the ransom. Ransomware is powerful malware […]
New Ransomware CryPy Can Encrypt Each File Individually with a Special Key — The C&C of this ransomware is hosted on a hacked Israeli server. Isn’t this surprising that there is a new strain of ransomware that uses a different key whenever it encrypts a file? This ransomware has been written in Python and needless to […]
A 33-year-old male in London has been charged with six terrorism counts under the Terrorism Act 2006 by the Metropolitan Police. The man, named Samata Ullah, appeared in a court in London the previous week. Ullah has been charged under the controversial Section 5 power in which the development of an “encrypted version” of personal blog […]
Sending passwords through an Internet connection or Bluetooth is not safe anymore so these researchers have developed a technology that sends passwords through nothing else but the human body. Researchers at the University of Washington have finally figured out a way to use a human body to transmit sensitive information such as your passwords and other […]
You may know Cerberus often called the “hound of Hades”, a monstrous multi-headed dog but in this case, Cerber is one nasty ransomware locking files and making it hard for victims to recover their data. [squaread][/squaread] Lately, we have been hearing a lot and quite often about the Cerber ransomware, which so far has proven […]
Do you know How to turn on encryption on Facebook messenger? Well, look no further and follow the steps mentioned in this article. Back in July, Facebook promised us all that the social network will soon be offering end-to-end message encryption. Now, the organization has lived up to our expectations and is now offering end-to-end […]
Good news, privacy enthusiasts: Facebook’s one-on-one encrypted messaging feature called Secret Conversations is now live for all Android and iOS users. Secret Conversations allows Messenger users to send end-to-end encrypted messages to their Facebook friends. There are a few caveats, however. First, it only works on a single device. Facebook says it doesn’t have the […]