Security News

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...

How to use Cloudflare encrypted DNS on Android
2018-12-10 21:56

If you're looking for an easy means of enabling encrypted DNS on Android, the Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 app is the way to go.

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.…

258,000 encrypted IronChat phone messages cracked by police
2018-11-09 11:53

They expect to cuff hundreds of criminals who used the pricey phones, which were sold with the crypto app preinstalled.

Cracking Down on Criminals' Use of Encrypted Communications
2018-11-09 11:18

An analysis of a crackdown on criminals' use of encrypted communications leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also: a preview of ISMG's Healthcare Security and Legal & Compliance...

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.…

New Intel CPU Flaw Exploits Hyper-Threading to Steal Encrypted Data
2018-11-04 09:33

A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to sniff out sensitive protected data, like passwords and...

How to create an encrypted vault with KDE Vaults
2018-10-25 13:10

Jack Wallen shows you how to create encrypted folders the easy way, with

Mac Malware Injects Ads into Encrypted Traffic
2018-10-25 12:19

A newly discovered piece of malware targeting macOS devices is capable of injecting ads into encrypted web traffic, Malwarebytes security researchers warn. read more

Mozilla Brings Encrypted SNI to Firefox Nightly
2018-10-19 10:40

Mozilla says Firefox Nightly now supports encrypting the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Server Name Indication (SNI) extension, several weeks after Cloudflare announced it turned on Encrypted SNI...