Apple Weakens iOS 10 Backup Encryption; Now Can Be Cracked 2,500 Times Faster

After the iPhone encryption battle between Apple and the FBI, Apple was inspired to work toward making an unhackable future iPhones by implementing stronger security measures even the company can't hack. Even at that point the company hired one of the key developers of Signal — one of the world's...

How to Auto-BackUp Your WhatsApp Data to Google Drive with Encryption

What if your phone suddenly slips into a bathtub? Maybe you'll end up losing all your important data, more specifically, your WhatsApp photos, videos, Voice Notes and Chat Data that flows through your chats. Sounds scary, isn't it? But, now you need not worry if your phone suddenly died or broke ...

CVE-2014-8017

The periodic-backup feature in Cisco Identity Services Engine ISE allows remote attackers to discover backup-encryption passwords via a crafted request that triggers inclusion of a password in a reply, aka Bug ID CSCur41673...

CVE-2014-8017

The periodic-backup feature in Cisco Identity Services Engine ISE allows remote attackers to discover backup-encryption passwords via a crafted request that triggers inclusion of a password in a reply, aka Bug ID CSCur41673...

CVE-2014-8017

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) periodic-backup password disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2014-8017) arises from improper processing of certain client requests. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can trigger a crafted request that causes the backup password to be included in a reply, enabling ...

Researcher Identifies Hidden Data-Acquisition Services in iOS

There are a number of undocumented and hidden features and services in Apple iOS that can be used to bypass the backup encryption on iOS devices and remove large amounts of users’ personal data. Several of these features began as benign services but have evolved in recent years to become powerful...

CVE-2012-4584

McAfee Email and Web Security EWS 5.x before 5.5 Patch 6 and 5.6 before Patch 3, and McAfee Email Gateway MEG 7.0 before Patch 1, does not properly encrypt system-backup data, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by reading a backup file, as...

Information disclosure

Acronis True Image Echo Server 9.x build 8072 on Linux does not properly encrypt backups to an FTP server, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information...