Once it became clear that he was going to be trapped in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for a while, National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden chose to end his isolation by inviting several human rights activists to meet with him in July. The e-mails Snowden sent out to organize that meeting reportedly came from the e-mail address "edsnowden@lavabit.com."
The flaw in the encryption technology used in some -- not all -- SIM cards, one which could allow a hacker to take over a mobile device, has been fixed in a clever fashion. Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs in Germany, speaking at the Black Hat Security Conference on Wednesday, said that at least five carriers had closed the hole by using the same vulnerability to hack into their own SIMs and rewrite the software.
It took more than eight years for a CIA analyst and a California computer scientist to crack three of the four coded messages on the CIA’s famed Kryptos sculpture in the late ’90s.
Little did either of them know that a small group of cryptanalysts inside the NSA had beat them to it, and deciphered the same three sections of Kryptos years earlier — and they did it in less than a month, according to new documents obtained from the NSA.
Cracked encryption allows hackers to potentially clone your SIM, priovided you're still using an out-dated encryption protocol.
Over the weekend some news broke about an exploit that affects millions of phone users. Apparently, the encryption used has a flaw that allows a hacker to clone the encryption credentials of a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card, potentially allowing them to clone your SIM card and retrieve things like information about your plan and payments, or identify you on the network.
Up to 750 million mobile phones around the world carry SIM cards that contain a programming flaw that could leave their owners vulnerable to fraud. The bug allows a hacker to remotely access personal data and authorise illegal transactions within minutes.
The UN’s International Telecommunications Union is to send an alert to all mobile phone operators after being presented with “hugely significant” evidence of a design flaw by renowned German code-breaker Karsten Nohl.
Google's cloud service contains everything you want - and sometimes what you don't want, like the U.S. government spying on you through its Prism surveillance program.
That's why the search engine giant is reportedly testing out encryption for all Google Drive files, according to a report by CNET.
In case you’re using an older variant of Cryptocat, you are advised to update your installation immediately.
Crypto expert Steve Thomas claims to have identified a vulnerability that exposes all Cryptocat chats from the period between October 17, 2011, and June 15, 2013. He has even developed a tool, DecryptoCat, to demonstrate his point.
In the wake of the recent NSA / Prism debacle, there has been a large push for secure, encrypted communications for the average user. This essentially means employing cryptography solutions in order to protect private communications from eavesdroppers (government or otherwise).
Dell today said it’s ready with new anti-malware defense and encryption offerings for businesses using its PCs, laptops, and Android-based mobile devices.
The improved security is available via the company’s Protected Workspace program for business computing.
Taking another page out of the WikiLeaks playbook, Edward Snowden has apparently distributed an encrypted copy of at least “thousands” of documents that he pilfered from the National Security Agency to “several people,” according to Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian reporter who first published Snowden’s leaks.
In an interview with the Daily Beast on Tuesday, Greenwald said that Snowden “has taken extreme precautions to make sure many different people around the world have these archives to insure the stories will inevitably be published.”
