WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow 'Potential Attackers' to Spy On Encrypted Group Chats

A more dramatic revelation of 2018—an outsider can secretly eavesdrop on your private end-to-end encrypted group chats on WhatsApp and Signal messaging apps. Considering protection against three types of attackers—malicious user, network attacker, and malicious server—an end-to-end encryption...

Signal Testing New Private Contact Discovery Service

Open Whisper Systems, the company behind the encrypted messaging app Signal, is testing a new private contact discovery service that in theory will allow the app to determine if a user has Signal contacts in their address book but forbid its servers from accessing the users’ address book. Moxie...

iOS macOS Remote Administration Tool: EggShell

EggShell is an iOS and macOS post exploitation surveillance pentest tool written in Python. This tool creates 1 line multi stage payloads that give you a command line session with extra functionality. EggShell gives you the power and convenience of uploading/downloading files, taking pictures,...

Awesome! WhatsApp Now Lets You Send Files of Any Format

Have you ever felt like wishing of sending any type of file immediately to your friends and office colleagues on WhatsApp directly, instead of just contacts, images or documents? Well, now you can… The latest version of WhatsApp for Android and iOS now allows users to send and receive any type of...

Magic Wormhole - Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely

This package provides a library and a command-line tool named wormhole, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories or short pieces of text from one computer to another. The two endpoints are identified by using identical "wormhole codes": in general, the sending machine...

Telegram Agrees to Register With Russia to Avoid Ban, But Won't Share User Data

After being threatened with a ban in Russia, end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app has finally agreed to register with new Russian Data Protection Laws, but its founder has assured that the company will not comply to share users' confidential data at any cost. Russia's communications watchd...

Keybase Extension Brings End-to-End Encrypted Chat To Twitter, Reddit, GitHub

A recently released Chrome extension, developed by the public key crypto database Keybase, brought end-to-end encrypted messaging to several apps this week. Keybase, a service that allows users to identify themselves with a public encryption key, introduced its end-to-end encrypted chat feature...

Senate's Use of Signal A Good First Step, Experts Say

On Tuesday the United States Senate made it official and approved the use of encrypted messaging app Signal by staffers. Encryption advocates applauded the measure, but say more needs to be done to protect “civic” infrastructure critical to democracy. “The move to secure communications...

Fatal vulnerability will allow an attacker to bypass Apple's OTR signature verification and steal your iCloud keychain information-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Background content In the analysis of the iOS platform and sandbox escape about the attack surface when we in the iCloud keychain sync feature of OTR implementation has discovered a serious security vulnerability. iCloud keychain sync feature allows users in a secure manner across the device to...

Breaking Signal: A Six-Month Journey

UPDATE MIAMI–Markus Vervier and Jean-Philippe Aumasson have spent the past six months poking security holes in the end-to-end encryption protocol Signal, all on their free time. And they have been successful in privately disclosing what they consider more than a half-dozen flaws to Signal, most o...

Telegram Messenger Adds AI-powered Encrypted Voice Calls

Joining the line with rival chat apps WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger, and Signal, the Telegram instant messaging service has finally rolled out a much-awaited feature for the new beta versions of its Android app: Voice Calling. And what's interesting? Your calls will be secured by Emojis, an...

How One Photo Could Have Hacked Your WhatsApp and Telegram Accounts

Next time when someone sends you a photo of a cute cat or a hot chick on WhatsApp or Telegram then be careful before you click on the image to view — it might hack your account within seconds. A new security vulnerability has recently been patched by two popular end-to-end encrypted messaging...

How Dutch Police Decrypted BlackBerry PGP Messages For Criminal Investigation

The Dutch police have managed to decrypt a number of PGP-encrypted messages sent by criminals using their custom security-focused PGP BlackBerry phones and identified several criminals in an ongoing investigation. PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, an open source end-to-end encryption standard that can...

Secure Email Service Lavabit Relaunches

Lavabit, the secure email provider that suspended operations in 2013 after the U.S. government asked for its users’ SSL keys, relaunched Friday under a new architecture. Ladar Levison, the service’s owner and operator, announced Lavabit’s return on Inauguration Day, acknowledging that values such...

Explained — What's Up With the WhatsApp 'Backdoor' Story?

What is a backdoor? By definition: "Backdoor is a feature or defect of a computer system that allows surreptitious unauthorized access to data, " either the backdoor is in encryption algorithm, a server or in an implementation, and doesn't matter whether it has previously been used or not...

WhatsApp Video Calling for Android Launched

WhatsApp is, no doubt, the largest end-to-end encrypted messaging network that allows over billion of its users to send messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, and calls that are secure from falling into the wrong hands. And now it seems like WhatsApp is rolling out a much-awaited...

Disappearing Messages Added to Signal App

The Signal encrypted messaging application on Tuesday added disappearing messages to its array of privacy features. Disappearing messages gives users the ability to designate how long conversations live on respective devices. And while developer Moxie Marlinspike said the feature won’t necessaril...

Open Source Distributed Secure Skype Alternative: Tox Messenger

Open Source Distributed Secure Skype Alternative Distributed FOSS secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities Tox began a few years ago, in the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks regarding NSA spying activity. The idea was to create an instant messaging protocol that ran without any kind ...

How to Start Secret Conversations on Facebook Messenger

If you are looking for ways to start a secret conversation on Facebook Messenger with your friends, then you are at the right place. In this article, I am going to tell you about Facebook Messenger's new end-to-end encrypted chat feature, dubbed "Secret Conversations," but before that, know why d...

Apple Tracks Who You're Chatting Using iMessage — and Shares that Data with Police

Doing conversations with your friend on iMessage and thinking that they are safe and out of reach from anyone else other than you and your friend? No, it's not. End-to-end encryption doesn't mean that your iMessages are secure enough to hide your trace because Apple not only stores a lot of...