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Ring's Flying In-Home Camera Drone Escalates Privacy Worries
Ring’s newly announced robot drone – a connected device that flies around homes taking security footage – is causing privacy experts’ concerns to take off. Amazon on Thursday unveiled the Always Home Cam as part of its Ring division, which will cost $249.99 and starts shipping next year. The...
Croc - Easily And Securely Send Things From One Computer To Another
croc is a tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders. AFAIK, croc is the only CLI file-transfer tool does all of the following: allows any two computers to transfer data using a relay provides end-to-end encryption using PAKE enables easy cross-platform...
Zoom Faces More Legal Challenges Over End-to-End Encryption
Video-conferencing behemoth Zoom has been hit with yet another lawsuit stemming from its claim to offer end-to-end encryption for sessions. The suit, filed in a Washington D.C. court PDF this week by a nonprofit advocacy group called Consumer Watchdog, alleges that the company falsely told users...
Cisco, Zoom and Others Must Bolster Security, Say Privacy Chiefs
Global privacy commissioners issued a joint public decry against leading video conferencing companies such as Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Zoom to demand the companies beef up their security and privacy strategies. The critique was delivered via an open letter published by data protection and...
New Bill Targeting ‘Warrant-Proof’ Encryption Draws Ire
Privacy advocates are decrying a new bill, which would force tech companies to unlock encrypted devices if ordered to do so by law enforcement with a court issued warrant. The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act was introduced on Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham R-SC,...
Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
The videoconferencing platform had previously said that only paid accounts would get the feature—a move privacy advocates roundly decried...
Zoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users
Zoom is doing the right thing: it's making end-to-end encryption available to all users, paid and unpaid. This is a change; I wrote about the initial decision here. ...we have identified a path forward that balances the legitimate right of all users to privacy and the safety of users on our...
CVE-2020-13637
An issue was discovered in the stashcat app through 3.9.2 for macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and possibly other platforms. It stores the clientkey, the deviceid, and the public key for end-to-end encryption in cleartext, enabling an attacker by copying or having access to the local storage databas...
Code injection
An issue was discovered in the stashcat app through 3.9.2 for macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and possibly other platforms. It stores the clientkey, the deviceid, and the public key for end-to-end encryption in cleartext, enabling an attacker by copying or having access to the local storage databas...
CVE-2020-13637
The CVE-2020-13637 entry applies to the stashcat app up to version 3.9.2 across macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and possibly other platforms. The root issue is the storage of sensitive credentials (client_key, device_id, and the public key for end-to-end encryption) in cleartext in the local storag...
Zero Trust—Part 1: Networking
Enterprises used to be able to secure their corporate perimeters with traditional network controls and feel confident that they were keeping hackers out. However, in a mobile- and cloud-first world, in which the rate and the sophistication level of security attacks are increasing, they can no...
News Wrap: Fake Minneapolis Police Breach, Zoom End-To-End Encryption Debate
Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch and Tara Seals discuss the top security news stories of the week, including: Reports emerged earlier this week that the Minneapolis police department had been breached by hacktivist group Anonymous. Security expert Troy Hunt debunked the reports, however...
Zoom's Commitment to User Security Depends on Whether you Pay It or Not
Zoom was doing so well.... And now we have this: Corporate clients will get access to Zoom's end-to-end encryption service now being developed, but Yuan said free users won't enjoy that level of privacy, which makes it impossible for third parties to decipher communications. "Free users for sure ...
Zoom's End-to-End Encryption Will Be for Paying Customers Only
The videoconferencing company says it wants to be able to work with law enforcement to catch bad actors on its platform...
Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy
Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert you when messages appear to come from financial scammers or potential child abusers, displaying warnings in the Messenger app that provid...
Guardedbox - Online Client-Side Manager For Secure Storage And Secrets Sharing
GuardedBox is an open-source online client-side manager for secure storage and secrets sharing. It allows users to upload secrets to a centralized server and retrieve them at anytime and from anywhere. It also allows users to share their secrets with other users, individually or via groups. Secre...
Securing Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
The NSA just published a survey of video conferencing apps. So did Mozilla. Zoom is on the good list, with some caveats. The company has done a lot of work addressing previous security concerns. It still has a bit to go on end-to-end encryption. Matthew Green looked at this. Zoom does offer...
Zoom Taps Ex-Facebook CISO Amid Security Snafus, Lawsuit
As it faces a major lawsuit, Zoom is taking a significant step to bolster security and privacy efforts by recruiting an industry heavy-hitter – former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos – to provide special counsel. It has also named third-party expert security advisory teams. The popular videoconferencin...
FBI Releases Guidance on Defending Against VTC Hijacking and Zoom-bombing
The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on defending against video-teleconferencing VTC hijacking referred to as “Zoom-bombing” when attacks are to the Zoom VTC platform. Many organizations and individuals are increasingly dependent on VTC platforms, such as Zoom and...