- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 3rd, 2017
How WhatsApp Fights Spam Without Seeing Your Messages
WhatsApp has developed an algorithm to spot spammers
- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- January 26th, 2017
Study: Americans Are Bad at Protecting Themselves Online
They believe online security is important, but fail to do much about protecting their various accounts
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Gabriela Vatu
- January 26th, 2017
Firefox and Chrome Start Flagging HTTP Connections as Insecure
In a push for more encryption, both browsers make more changes to the way they inform users about their security
- Hacking News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- January 25th, 2017
AlphaBay Dark Web Marketplace Flaw Exposes Private Messages
The vulnerability has since been patched
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 18th, 2016
SHA-1 Usage Goes Down After Browser Vendor Ban
Firefox 51 to show "Untrusted Connection" error for sites using digital certificates signed with SHA-1
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 18th, 2016
VeraCrypt Security Audit Concludes Despite Rocky Start
VeraCrypt 1.19 released to fix 8 critical issues
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 17th, 2016
New Tool Helps Group Members Synchronize GPG Keys Among Each Other
First Look releases new tool called GPG Sync
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 6th, 2016
Riseup Encrypted Communications Network Is Running Out of Money
Riseup has seen a massive growth in terms of freeloaders
- Server related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 25th, 2016
SWEET32 Attack: 3DES and Blowfish Ciphers Considered Insecure
HTTPS and VPN traffic broken with new semi-practical attack
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 21st, 2016
GnuPG Project Fixes "Critical Security Problem" That Existed Since 1998
Users should update GnuPG and Libgcrypt, if they use them
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 14th, 2016
Sharp Increase in Malware Utilizing SSL
SSL malware samples, C&C servers, grow manifolds
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 14th, 2016
Cryptography Experts Say Apple Needs to Replace iMessage Encryption
iMessage receives several fixes following mammoth research
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 3rd, 2016
Google Adds HSTS Support to YouTube, HTTPS Traffic Reaches 97 Percent
Google makes YouTube safer to navigate thanks to a massive amount of work to support technologies like HTTPS and HSTS
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 31st, 2016
Google Adds HSTS Support to Google.com Domain
Google secures the secure HTTPS with HSTS
- Mobile World
- By Alexandra Vaidos
- July 19th, 2016
Judge in Brazil Bans WhatsApp Indefinitely and Fines the Company Update
It's the third time WhatsApp is banned in Brazil
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 1st, 2016
Android's Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) Can Be Cracked on Qualcomm-Based Devices
Simple Python script can be used to launch the attack
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 23rd, 2016
Russia Wants Encryption Backdoors in Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber, Allo, Others UPDATED
Controversial encryption backdoor bill reaches Russian Duma