Security News

Police Arrested Hundreds of Criminals After Hacking Into Encrypted Chat Network
2020-07-03 04:56

In a joint operation, European and British law enforcement agencies recently arrested hundreds of alleged drug dealers and other criminals after infiltrating into a global network of an encrypted chatting app that was used to plot drug deals, money laundering, extortions, and even murders. Dubbed EncroChat, the top-secret encrypted communication app comes pre-installed on a customized Android-based handset with GPS, camera, and microphone functionality removed for anonymity and security.

Zoom will offer proper end-to-end encryption to free vid-chat accounts – not just paid-up bods – once you verify your phone number...
2020-06-17 20:58

Zoom today said it will make end-to-end encryption available to all of its users, regardless of whether they pay for it or not. We note that Google Meet and other rival services do not offer E2EE. "Today, Zoom released an updated E2EE design on GitHub," Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said.

Two Critical Flaws in Zoom Could've Let Attackers Hack Systems via Chat
2020-06-03 08:53

Cybersecurity researchers from Cisco Talos unveiled today that it discovered two critical vulnerabilities in the Zoom software that could have allowed attackers to hack into the systems of group chat participants or an individual recipient remotely. According to the researchers, successful exploitation of both flaws requires no or very little interaction from targeted chat participants and can be executed just by sending specially crafted messages through the chat feature to an individual or a group.

Two Critical Flaws in Zoom Could've Let Attackers Hack Systems via Chat
2020-06-03 08:53

Cybersecurity researchers from Cisco Talos unveiled today that it discovered two critical vulnerabilities in the Zoom software that could have allowed attackers to hack into the systems of group chat participants or an individual recipient remotely. According to the researchers, successful exploitation of both flaws requires no or very little interaction from targeted chat participants and can be executed just by sending specially crafted messages through the chat feature to an individual or a group.

Adult live-streaming site CAM4 leaks millions of emails, private chats
2020-05-06 10:59

Adult live-streaming site CAM4 has spilt millions of users' private chats, emails, names, email addresses, sexual preferences, password hashes, IP addresses and more. A streaming site for amateurs to watch live, explicit performances, it offers customers the ability to buy virtual tokens if they want to tip performers or watch private shows.

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer 5.0 gains the ability to display conversation histories and secret chats in Telegram
2020-04-30 00:45

Version 5.0 gains the ability to display conversation histories and secret chats in Telegram, one of the world's most popular instant messaging apps. Elcomsoft Phone Viewer 5.0 gains the ability to display Telegram conversations by analyzing the iPhone file system image.

Zoom adds Choose Your Own Routing Adventure to keep chats out of China
2020-04-14 05:03

Zoom's security catch-up sprint has seen it announce its users will soon be able to choose where their traffic goes. The new feature will help users in places like Taiwan, where the government banned Zoom after learning traffic could go through its frenemies in Beijing.

Facebook’s new Tuned chat app lets couples keep their mush private
2020-04-09 10:40

Facebook on Tuesday released a new couples-only messaging app that gives you a place to get "As mushy, quirky, and silly" with your bae as you do in front of each other even when you're apart, keeping it to yourselves and thus avoiding setting off nausea in others. You can use the app - which Facebook has dubbed "Tuned" - to chat and to share your mood, photos, music, love notes and more, or to create a shared, daily "Diary of special moments."

China and Taiwan aren't great friends. Zoom sends chats through China. So Taiwan has banned Zoom
2020-04-08 04:34

In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.

Epic Games floats $1m bounty to ID source of 'commercial smear' claiming Houseparty chat app has been hacked
2020-03-31 18:30

Group video chat app Houseparty has offered a $1m bounty to identify what it claims is an organised campaign to falsely depict it as a hackers' backdoor. Announced at 4am UTC on the firm's Twitter account, the million-dollar bounty is being offered to "The first individual to provide proof of such a campaign," with Epic Games, the firm behind Houseparty, alleging this effort is "a paid commercial smear to harm Houseparty."