WhatsApp and Telegram Vulnerabilities Opened Users to Account Takeover

Encrypted messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram patched vulnerabilities in the last week that could have let an attacker take over a user’s account, access personal and group conversations, along with photos, videos and other files. A trio of researchers with Check Point Software Technologies,...

Using 'Signal' for Encrypted Chats? You Shouldn't Skip Its Next Update

Two Researchers have discovered a couple of vulnerabilities in Signal, the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app recommended by whistleblower Edward Snowden. One of those vulnerabilities could allow potential attackers to add random data to the attachments of encrypted messages sent by Andro...

More than 1 million People now access Facebook Over Tor Network

In Brief Facebook has hit another Milestone: More than 1 MILLION people, or you can say privacy conscious, are accessing Facebook over TOR. Facebook proudly announced today that, this month, for the first time, the people connected to the anonymous version of Facebook that's accessible only throu...

Sen. Warren Worried About Banks' New Encrypted Messaging Platform

UPDATE–The list of politicians in Washington wringing their hands over the increasing use of encryption by consumers and businesses is growing longer by the day. Sen. Elizabeth Warren added her name to that list on Monday. Warren D-Mass. sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressing...

OTR.to — Secure 'Off-the-Record' p2p Encrypted Messaging Service

In this post-Snowden era of mass surveillance, being out-of-reach from the spying eyes really doesn't mean they can not get you. So, if you are concerned about your data privacy and are actually searching for a peer-to-peer encrypted messaging service, then it’s time to get one. "Otr.to" — an...

TextSecure to Drop Support for Encrypted SMS

Open Whisper Systems is phasing out support for encrypted SMS and MMS messages in its TextSecure messaging product. The move does not spell the end for encrypted messaging for users of the Android app, as the company plans to switch to its own transport protocol to address some of the security an...

Moxie Marlinspike on TextSecure CyanogenMod integration

Moxie Marlinspike Moxie Marlinspike has published landmark research on SSL vulnerabilities, taken on certificate authorities and even built an alternative to CAs as we know them today called Convergence. But now that government surveillance and online privacy have been elevated to mainstream...