Whatsapp accounts are based on phone numbers. This means your phone number is your username and it’s also used for authentication. While this is not perfect from a privacy standpointRead More →
Only a local hacker in a facility would be able to run an attack. General Electric (GE) has pushed out an update to its industrial control systems following the discoveryRead More →
Lavabit, the Snowden recommended encrypted email service, is back. Its CEO Ladar Levison announced new privacy-enhancing features. Do you remember Lavabit? It was the US Encrypted Email Service used by theRead More →
Reportedly, over a million accounts on the Supercell community forum have been compromised after a data breach occurred in 2016. The firm Supercell, the authors of the notorious “The ClashRead More →
A recently discussed feature in WhatsApp, the messaging app used by more than 1 billion people worldwide, is not a backdoor. That’s the message from an open letter written byRead More →
A Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges stemming from his employment with an unlicensed bitcoin exchange that prosecutors say was owned by an Israeli who oversaw a massiveRead More →
Users can expect to share 30 percent of their ill-gotten gains for signing up. A new kind of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) which offers users the chance to tailor their own codeRead More →
Security researchers have discovered a new Android trojan named Skyfin that can infiltrate the local Play Store Android app and download or purchase other apps behind the user’s back. UntilRead More →
The encrypted dark web site aims to help users circumvent government censorship. ProtonMail now has a home on the dark web.The encrypted email provider announced Thursday it will allow itsRead More →
A new ransomware family is targeting Android devices, locking access to the screen, and constantly pestering the user to enter his payment card details. According to Fortinet researcher Kai Lu,Read More →
