Security News

Chat Services: Be Diligent With This Must-Have Data Source for Intelligence Programs
2019-04-08 13:47

Deep & Dark Web (DDW) forums and marketplaces have long served as hubs for illicit activity and, consequently, as invaluable data sources for defenders looking to combat such activity. However,...

ACLU: Here's how FBI tried to force Facebook to wiretap its chat app. Judge: Oh, no you don't
2019-02-13 22:55

Federal court shoots down attempt to reveal Feds' decryption demands A US federal judge has refused to unseal court paperwork that would show how the FBI tried to force Facebook to snoop on calls...

Who cracked El Chapo's encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager
2019-01-09 21:33

Feds flipped techie and recorded hundreds of calls In an extraordinary twist, it was revealed on Tuesday that the man most likely responsible for bringing drug kingpin "El Chapo" Joaquin Guzman to...

Zerodium Offers $2 Million for iOS Hacks, $1 Million for Chat App Exploits
2019-01-08 07:16

Exploit acquisition firm Zerodium on Monday announced that it’s offering significantly higher payouts for many types of exploits, including up to $2 million for remote iOS jailbreaks and $1...

Memes, messengers, and missiles: From Twitter to chat apps and weapons, security is ho-ho-hosed this Xmas
2018-12-18 01:20

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...

GCHQ pushes for 'virtual crocodile clips' on chat apps – the ability to silently slip into private encrypted comms
2018-11-29 22:31

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.…

'Cuddly' German chat app slacking on hashing given a good whacking under GDPR: €20k fine
2018-11-23 13:15

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,...

Emoji Attack Can Kill Skype for Business Chat
2018-11-16 21:25

The "Kitten of Doom" denial-of-service attack is easy to carry out.

Dutch cops hope to cuff 'hundreds' of suspects after snatching servers, snooping on 250,000+ encrypted chat texts
2018-11-07 05:01

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.…

From 'WebEx' to 'WebExec' to 'WTF, my PC!' Cisco rapped in chat app security flap
2018-10-25 06:27

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.…