A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted

Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructur...

SIGINT During World War II

The NSA and GCHQ have jointly published a history of World War II SIGINT: "Secret Messengers: Disseminating SIGINT in the Second World War." This is the story of the British SLUs Special Liaison Units and the American SSOs Special Security Officers...

The Trump Administration Sure Is Having Trouble Keeping Its Comms Private

In the wake of SignalGate, a knockoff version of Signal used by a high-ranking member of the Trump administration was hacked. Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the platforms used for government communications...

stroom 安全漏洞

stroom is a highly scalable data storage, processing, and analytics platform open-sourced by GCHQ. A security vulnerability exists in stroom that stems from a vulnerability that allows bypassing the authentication of the stroom system when the ALB is configured and installed in a way that the...

Patch Tuesday, December 2017 Edition

The final Patch Tuesday of the year is upon us, with Adobe and Microsoft each issuing security updates for their software once again. Redmond fixed problems with various flavors of Windows, Microsoft Edge, Office, Exchange and its Malware Protection Engine. And of course Adobe's got another...