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WhatsApp adds end-to-end encryption using TextSecure Security boost initially available on Android app, with an iOS version coming soon WhatsApp adds end-to-end encryption using TextSecure | Technology | The Guardian More than 600 million WhatsApp users are about to benefit from default end-to-end encryption, which should prevent any snoops spying on their communications. The security […]

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web  Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP

Mobe-tracking planes deployed across country using dirtbox By Iain Thomson US marshals have reportedly fitted mini mobile phone cells, nicknamed dirtboxes, inside aircraft so that they can locate mobes from the sky. Or, in other words, another one of Uncle Sam’s agencies has found another way to secretly track citizens. The g-men, who work for

How ‘Guccifer’ went from online novice to infamous hacker, and got caught Andrew Higgins He revelled in tormenting members of the Bush family, Colin L. Powell and a host of other prominent Americans, and also in outfoxing the FBI and the Secret Service, foiling their efforts to discover even his nationality, never mind his identity.

If so, here’s what you need to know and do Jeff Guillet Following a recommendation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Microsoft will block Windows from accepting SSL certificates encrypted with the Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) algorithm after 2016. Given the number of mission-critical SSL certificates that are allowed to expire from

Hackers used luxury hotel Wi-Fi to steal business executive’s data, researchers say  ‘Darkhotel’ hackers targeted senior executives travelling across Japan, China and Russia, using a keylogger to steal logins for Google, Facebook and Yahoo services Hackers used luxury hotel Wi-Fi to steal business executive’s data, researchers say | Technology | The Guardian Business executives visiting

The project doesn’t have funding as yet to improve the security of hidden websites By Jeremy Kirk Little is known about how U.S. and European law enforcement shut down more than 400 websites, including Silk Road 2.0, which used technology that hides their true IP addresses. The websites were set up using a special feature

By Juha Saarinen ZeroAccess rootkits cleaned out.  Fast food franchise Pizza Hut has revealed its chain of stores fell victim to a year-long malware campaign in 2013 which hit point of sales systems and caused order transmissions to fail. Details of the malware infestation have been made public in a case study by Pizza Hut’s

Summary: US law-enforcement officials have warned that they will ‘return as many times as necessary’ to shut down underground illicit websites, after the arrest of alleged Silk Road 2.0 owner and operator, Blake Benthall, in California. By Leon Spencer The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced that it has arrested a 26-year-old