Android and Chrome Users Can Soon Generate Virtual Credit Cards to Protect Real Ones

Google on Wednesday took to its annual developer conference to announce a host of privacy and security updates, including support for virtual credit cards on Android and Chrome. "When you use autofill to enter your payment details at checkout, virtual cards will add an additional layer of securit...

The EU Wants Big Tech to Scan Your Private Chats for Child Abuse

Europe’s proposed child protection laws could undermine end-to-end encryption for billions of people...

Client side scanning may cost more than it delivers

On May 11, 2022, the EU will publicize a proposal for a law on mandatory chat control. The European Commission wants all providers of email, chat and messaging services to search for suspicious messages in a fully automated way and forward them to the police in the fight against child pornography...

Elon Musk Wants to Make Twitter DMs End-to-End Encrypted

By Deeba Ahmed The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and the new owner of microblogging and social networking giant Twitter seem… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Elon Musk Wants to Make Twitter DMs End-to-End Encrypted...

Twitter's New Owner Elon Musk Wants DMs to be End-to-End Encrypted like Signal

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and Twitter's new owner, on Thursday called on adding support for end-to-end encryption E2EE to the platform's direct messages DM feature. "Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your messages," Musk said in a...

Apple’s child safety features are coming to a Messages app near you

Apple will soon be rolling out its promised child safety features in the Messages app for users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK. The announcement comes four months after the features initial launch in the US on the iOS, iPad, and macOS devices. To make communicating with Messages...

WhatsApp Doubles Down With End-to-End Encrypted ‘Communities’

More than just group DMs, WhatsApp's new feature is a major expansion of its comprehensive encrypted messaging...

PYSEC-2022-186

Apache Spark supports end-to-end encryption of RPC connections via "spark.authenticate" and "spark.network.crypto.enabled". In versions 3.1.2 and earlier, it uses a bespoke mutual authentication protocol that allows for full encryption key recovery. After an initial interactive attack, this would...

Keybase Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-11494)

Keybase is a PGP-based social networking platform that supports end-to-end encryption. keybase is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to disclose sensitive information that should be removed from a user's file system...

UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption

Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably theyll lean heavily on the "think of the children!" rhetoric were seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars. The technical eavesdroppin...

Zooming in on Zero-click Exploits

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero Zoom is a video conferencing platform that has gained popularity throughout the pandemic. Unlike other video conferencing systems that I have investigated, where one user initiates a call that other users must immediately accept or reject, Zoom calls ar...

Law Enforcement Access to Chat Data and Metadata

A January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Rolling Stone broke the story and its been written about elsewhere. I dont see a lot of surprises in the document. Lots of apps leak all sorts of metadata: iMessage and...

Matrix clients -- several vulnerabilities

Matrix developers report: Today we are releasing security updates to libolm, matrix-js-sdk, and several clients including Element Web / Desktop. Users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. These releases mitigate a buffer overflow in olmsessiondescribe, a libolm debugging function used b...

Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more

Not every secure messaging app is as safe as it would like us to think. And some are safer than others. A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about yo...

Adopting a Zero Trust approach throughout the lifecycle of data

Instead of believing everything behind the corporate firewall is safe, the Zero Trust model assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originates from an uncontrolled network. Regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, Zero Trust teaches us to “never trust...

Keybase Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Keybase is a social networking platform based on PGP technology that supports end-to-end encryption.An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Keybase Client for Android before version 5.8.0 and Keybase Client for iOS before version 5.8.0, which stems from the client's inability to properl...

Keybase path traversal vulnerability

Keybase is a PGP technology-based social networking platform that supports end-to-end encryption.Keybase Client for Windows prior to version 5.7.0 is vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability that stems from a networked system or product failing to properly filter special elements in a resourc...

Mediator - An Extensible, End-To-End Encrypted Reverse Shell With A Novel Approach To Its Architecture

Mediator is an end-to-end encrypted reverse shell in which the operator and the shell connect to a "mediator" server that bridges the connections. This removes the need for the operator/handler to set up port forwarding in order to listen for the connection. Mediator also allows you to create...

CVE-2021-40824

A logic error in the room key sharing functionality of Element Android before 1.2.2 and matrix-android-sdk2 aka Matrix SDK for Android before 1.2.2 allows a malicious Matrix homeserver present in an encrypted room to steal room encryption keys via crafted Matrix protocol messages that were...

CVE-2021-40824

A logic error in the room key sharing functionality of Element Android before 1.2.2 and matrix-android-sdk2 aka Matrix SDK for Android before 1.2.2 allows a malicious Matrix homeserver present in an encrypted room to steal room encryption keys via crafted Matrix protocol messages that were...