Security News

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...

Malware Network Communication Provides Better Early Warning Signal (Threatpost)
2017-05-24 15:10

An academic paper to be presented today at IEEE posits that analysis of network signals provides a better early warning of malware than infections than current practices.

Senate’s Use of Signal A Good First Step, Experts Say (Threatpost)
2017-05-18 16:05

The Senate's use of the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is a good first step in protecting U.S. democratic institutions, but much more needs to be protected.

The US Senate Is Using Signal (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-17 19:45

The US Senate just approved Signal for staff use. Signal is a secure messaging app with no backdoor, and no large corporate owner who can be pressured to install a backdoor. Susan Landau comments....

Hundreds of Apps Using Ultrasonic Signals to Silently Track Smartphone Users (The Hackers News)
2017-05-03 09:39

Your smartphone may have some apps that are continuously listening inaudible, high-frequency ultrasonic sounds from your surroundings and they know where you go, what you like and dislike — all...

Smart TV Hack via the Broadcast Signal (Schneier on Security)
2017-04-20 12:41

This is impressive: The proof-of-concept exploit uses a low-cost transmitter to embed malicious commands into a rogue TV signal. That signal is then broadcast to nearby devices. It worked against...