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Just slightly better than coal in your stocking Roundup We are now firmly into the holiday season, the Christmas parties are kicking off, and folks are swapping their Excel files for eggnog, or...
Sliding into your DMs unnoticed, literally Analysis Britain's surveillance nerve-center GCHQ is trying a different tack in its effort to introduce backdoors into encrypted apps: reasonableness.…
PLAIN TEXT passwords showed up on file-hosting site German chat platform Knuddels.de ("Cuddles") has been fined €20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text (no hash at all? Come on, people,...
The "Kitten of Doom" denial-of-service attack is easy to carry out.
BlackBox IronPhones' IronChat app convos intercepted Dutch police claim to have snooped on more than a quarter of a million encrypted messages sent between alleged miscreants using BlackBox IronPhones.…
Patch your vid conferencing software to stop malware, users nabbing admin rights Sorry to spoil your day, Cisco admins and users, but it's time to patch Webex, again.…
WhatsAppers have until 12 November. That's when WhatsApp will sweep out dusty old backups that haven't been updated in more than a year.
WhatsApp, the most popular messaging application in the world, has been found vulnerable to multiple security vulnerabilities that could allow malicious users to intercept and modify the content...
An activist has just leaked thousands of private messages of an organization that's been known to publishing others' secrets. More than 11,000 direct messages from a Twitter group used by...