Security News

AWS sends noise to Signal: you can't hide behind our server names
2018-05-02 01:58

Moxie Marlinspike bemoans Bezos' bit barns joining Google in Domain Fronting ban Amazon has followed Google's example by lowering the boom on a practice called “domain fronting” that organisations...

WhatsApp Co-founder Invests $50 Million in Signal
2018-02-22 17:15

Open Whisper Systems, the organization behind the privacy-focused messaging app Signal, announced on Wednesday the launch of the Signal Foundation, with an initial investment of $50 million from...

Skype, Slack and Signal Vulnerable to Critical Framework Bug
2018-01-24 19:21

The team behind the popular open-source framework Electron warns a remote code execution flaw could compromise user privacy.

DoS attacks against hard disk drives using acoustic signals
2018-01-16 19:31

A group of Princeton and Purdue researchers has shown that it’s possible to mount a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against hard disk drives via acoustic signals. Threat severity Hard disk drives...

WhatsApp, Signal group chats not as secure as users might believe
2018-01-11 18:34

Researchers have discovered flaws in the way WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema messaging apps handle secure (encrypted) group communication, which could result in unauthorized users getting added to...

Standalone Signal Desktop Messaging App Released
2017-11-01 16:46

Signal, a popular secure messaging application, is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux computers as a standalone program. read more

Signal Introduces Private Contact Discovery
2017-09-28 10:05

Open Whisper Systems announced this week that it’s working on a new private contact discovery service for its privacy-focused communications app Signal. read more

Signal Testing New Private Contact Discovery Service
2017-09-27 17:16

Signal is testing out a new private contact discovery service that will let the app determine if a user has Signal contacts in their address book, but forbid its servers from accessing the users’...

Senate Testimony: SEC Chairman Signals Cyber 'Mea Culpa'
2017-09-26 12:48

Regulator Also Launches 'Cyber Unit' to Investigate 'Cyber-Related Misconduct'The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, will promise the Senate banking committee that...

Wi-Fi holography: Generate a 3D image of space using stray Wi-Fi signals (Help Net Security)
2017-05-25 13:30

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a holographic imaging process that depicts the radiation of a Wi-Fi transmitter to generate three-dimensional images of the...