Silent Text for Android now on Google Play
Silent Text for Android is now available for download in the Google Play store. It allows you to have secure and encrypted peer-to-peer text conversations on your mobile …
Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
If anyone knows what's really going on in cyberspace and which forces threaten stability and security, it's Ronald Deibert and his colleagues from the well known and reputed …
NSA tips off law enforcement, asks them to keep the practice secret
Just days after the NYT wrote about the NSA denying other federal intelligence agencies access to their surveillance tools comes the disclosure that a US Drug Enforcement …
German Minister calls for punishment of US companies involved in NSA spying
The revelations of mass online spying by US government agencies that involved cooperation from the British and the German governments and intelligence services, as well as the …
Advice on Tor use in wake of Freedom Hosting compromise
In the wake of the discovery that someone has compromised Tor hidden services hosted by Freedom Hosting and injected malicious JavaScript aimed at de-anonymizing specific …
Tor users targeted with spyware following anonymous Web-host shutdown
The news that the alleged owner of Freedom Hosting, the internet host for a great number of Tor hidden services, has been arrested and is accused of distributing and promoting …
ZeroAcces rootkit dominates, adds new persistence techniques
According to a recent report by Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary Kindsight, as much as 10 percent of home networks and over 0.5 percent of mobile devices are infected with malware, …
Universities are putting private financial data at risk
HALOCK found that over 50% of the colleges and universities investigated allow for the transmission of sensitive information over unencrypted (and therefore unprotected) email …
New leaks say NSA can see all your online activities
If you have followed the unfolding of the NSA surveillance scandal, you have probably heard the mantra “It’s only metadata!” repeated many times by US …
72k people affected by University of Delaware hack
University of Delaware is the latest of the high-learning institutions in the US to have been hit with a cyber attack that resulted in a data breach. According to a …
Security and privacy risks of top mobile apps
Appthority performed a static, dynamic and behavioral app analysis on the 400 most popular free and paid apps on the iOS and Android platforms. They analyzed each app for …
The scary implications of Google Glass
Google Glass, for all its promise, has some scary implications. Here is my list of potential challenges we face with Glass: User experience Social awkwardness Privacy (or lack …