Signal Tells Cellebrite to Back Off Signal is the encrypted message app created by white hat hacker Moxie Marlinspike and his team. Cellebrite is the Israeli company that cracks cells phones for law enforcement. Cellebrite claims to be able to crack Signals messages (it is not clear if they are breaking the crypto or have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Bulk Energy Providers Must Report Attempted Breaches The Solar Winds attack, from what little we know about it, was bad enough, but what if it was Russia’s trial run for taking down the power grid like they did in Ukraine or taking out the water supply or gas supply? NERC, the electric utility regulator, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Retailer LightInTheBox Exposes 1.6 Billion Customer Records The challenge with today’s big data world is that the breaches are enormous. LightInTheBox left customer transaction data exposed due to, apparently, a server misconfiguration. They effectively breached themselves. The data was a web server log with dates from Aug 9 to Oct 11 of this year. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Does it Right Matt Green, the well known cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins said this about the encrypted messaging app Signal: “After reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.” But even nice code isn’t perfect. Last Friday, researchers announced very serious bug in […]
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