Security researchers found a couple of vulnerabilities affecting the chat features of the popular video conferencing app Zoom that, if exploited, would have...
Tag - encryption
The Signal messaging app is getting a new security feature called Signal PINs, allowing users to secure their cloud-stored information in a way not available...
The group behind the Shade ransomware has closed up shop and distributed around 750,000 decryption keys, along with decryption software, apologizing to...
A certificate authority named Let’s Encrypt found a bug in code used to generate certificates and was forced to revoke millions of certificates, leaving...
The developers of Thunderbird, one of the most-used free email clients in the world, plan to implement OpenPGP support in 2020. Thunderbird used to be made by...
Perhaps we should all change our Facebook passwords to play it safe, following news that Facebook kept, from as early as 2012, “hundreds of millions” of user...
Researchers at Netherlands-based Radboud University, which is active in almost all scientific fields, have discovered grave security flaws in several popular...
Encrypted messaging app Telegram is dealing with a major anonymity fail possibly affecting their brand reputation and customer trust. Last week, security...
Government officials from “Five Eyes” countries have declared war on encryption, seeing it as a threat instead of a shield. The US, UK, Australia, Canada and...
A survey of over 500 security professionals has revealed, rather disconcertingly, that most believe governments should regulate the way social networks handle...