British hacker Stephen Tomkinson has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks.His first exploit relies on a poor Java implementation in a product called PowerDVD from CyberLink. PowerDVD plays DVDs on PCs and... read more
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Samsung's Smart TV Data Encryption Claims Proven False
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-03-02 00:46
After our recent discovery that our Samsung TV was sending voice recognition data over the internet unencrypted, they sent the following response:
“Samsung takes consumer privacy very seriously and our products are designed with privacy in mind. Our latest Smart TV models are equipped with data encryption and a software update will soon be available for download on other models."
OPSEC For Activists, Because Encryption Is No Guarantee
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-02-27 10:30
“None of the claims of what comsec works is to be taken saltless: Tor, OTR, ZTRP are lures.” —Cryptome [3], Dec. 30, 2014
CloudFlare crypto gets faster on old mobes
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-02-27 09:48
Popular denial of service deflection platform CloudFlare is deploying new speedy cipher suites previously championed by Google, maths boffin Nick Sullivan says.
The ChaCha-Poly1305 cipher is three times faster than the resource heavy AES-128-GCM cipher and was not subject to attacks against RC4, Sullivan (@grittygrease) says, meaning things will speed on CloudFlare for mobes.
Telegram Has Unencrypted Copies of Secret Chat Messages
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-02-24 02:28
Telegram users should be aware the messaging app's "Secret Chats" may not be so secret after all.
Yahoo exec goes mano a mano with NSA director over crypto backdoors
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-02-24 02:17
Echoing the concerns of many US-based technology companies have about US-led surveillance programs, Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos asked the director of the National Security Agency some pointed questions concerning proposed or existing backdoors placed in encryption technologies. The responses from NSA director Adm. Mike Rogers only underscored the growing divide.