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Facebook Messenger has started rolling out Secret Conversations, a feature that enables end-to-end encryption for conversations within Messenger. Secret Conversations is built on Signal Protocol, a modern, open source, strong encryption protocol we developed for asynchronous messaging systems.
Two weeks ago, I was on holiday in Turin, Italy and made a boo boo. I forgot my phone in our rental car for a two hour visit to a local…
Wednesday, CloudFlare blogged that 94% of the requests it sees from Tor are "malicious." We find...
Recently, account takeovers, email hacking, and targeted phishing attacks have been all over the news. Hacks of various politicians, allegedly carried out by Russian hackers, have yielded troves of data. Despite the supposed involvement of state-sponsored agents, some hacks were not reliant on complex zero-day…
There have been rumors for years that the NSA can decrypt a significant fraction of encrypted Internet traffic. In 2012, James Bamford published an article quoting anonymous former NSA officials stating that the agency had achieved a “computing breakthrough” that gave them “the ability to crack current public…
The Containers Feature in Firefox Nightly enables users to login to multiple accounts on the same site simultaneously and gives users the ability to segregate site data for improved privacy and security. We all portray different characteristics of ourselves in different situations. The way I speak with my son is much…
You would think less than a month after a very popular HackerNews article on how Dropbox hacks your Mac, the file sharing company would be careful about their software distribution. They just distributed an update that hacks your UI and presents a Yahoo-like banner from 2004.
Posted by Tavis Ormandy.Symantec is a popular vendor in the enterprise security market, their fla...
<span style="font-weight: 400;">An attack has been found and exploited in <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413">the...
Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS. We live in an age where too ma
A lot of people are watching the spectacle of Apple vs. the FBI and the Homeland Security Theatre and rubbing their eyes, wondering why Apple (in the person of CEO Tim Cook) is suddenly the knight in shining armour on the side of consumer privacy and civil rights. Apple, after all, is a goliath-sized corporate…
171 words every programmer should understand
Penetration testing tools cheat sheet, a high level overview / quick reference cheat sheet for penetration testing.
This morning we filed a new lawsuit in federal court against the United States government to stand up for what we believe are our customers’ constitutional and fundamental rights – rights that help protect privacy and promote free expression. This is not a decision we made lightly, and hence we wanted to share…
Security and Vulnerability Research
Rogue cellular infrastructure disguised as office printer Oliver, 2015
The recording and slides are available, but for easier consumption here's a transcript.
Let’s Encrypt is happy to announce full support for IPv6. As IPv4 address space is exhausted, more and more people are deploying services that are only reachable via IPv6. Adding full support for IPv6 allows us to serve more people and organizations, which is important if we’re going to encrypt the entire Web. IPv6 is…
Posted by Fermin J. Serna, Staff Security Engineer and Kevin Stadmeyer, Technical Program Manager Have you ever been deep in the mines of ...
The Sophos Blog
The other day I set up a new OpenBSD instance with a nice RAID array, encrypted with Full Disk Encryption. And promptly proceeded to forget part of the passphrase.
[This is a guest post by Vitaly Shmatikov, professor at Cornell Tech and once upon a time my adviser at the University of Texas at Austin. — Arvind Narayanan.] TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large […]
[German]It seems that Google has established a surveillance function for Android phones. They are claiming the right, to collect and store meta data from incoming/outgoing phone calls and SMS from…
Edit: It seems that the blog post and the thesis caused quite some interest. Please contact me under the following mail address: admin [|[at]|] incolumitas [[|dot|]] com In this blog post, it is demonstrated how 17000 computers were forced to execute arbitrary code by typosquatting programming language…
Salted Password Hashing with Argon2, Scrypt, Bcrypt, and PBKDF2
When I launched Diablo III, I didn’t expect the pornography I had been looking at hours previously to be splashed on the screen. But that’s exactly what replaced the black loading scree…
