Signal App’s New Privacy Feature Conceals Sender ID from Metadata

By Waqas Messaging apps are now becoming more and more secure to make it difficult or rather impossible for anyone to access your conversations. Switching to end-to-end encryption although offered a stronger layer of protection but still the unencrypted metadata like sender/receiver information,...

From Now On, Only Default Android Apps Can Access Call Log and SMS Data

A few hours ago the company announced its "non-shocking" plans to shut down Google+ social media network following a "shocking" data breach incident. Now to prevent abuse and potential leakage of sensitive data to third-party app developers, Google has made several significant changes giving user...

BusyGasper – the unfriendly spy

In early 2018 our mobile intruder-detection technology was triggered by a suspicious Android sample that, as it turned out, belonged to an unknown spyware family. Further investigation showed that the malware, which we named BusyGasper, is not all that sophisticated, but demonstrates some unusual...

ThreatList: Popular Apps Get Enterprise Blacklisted

Mobile apps on BYOD handhelds tend to keep enterprise security pros worried. Between apps that are malicious, others that leak data and ones with pushy permissions – it’s hard to determine what’s safe and what might violate company rules. On Wednesday, Appthority released its annual list of the...

Keeping your business and personal instant messages secure

Most people want to know their instant messages are securely wrapped up—whether that's for personal privacy or making sure online scammers can't grab the message content. If you're sending text on a sensitive topic, or perhaps some photo attachments intended for one person only, you definitely...

Skype, Slack and Other Popular Windows Apps Vulnerable to Critical Framework Bug

UPDATE Hundreds of software applications built using the developer framework called Electron may be vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw, according to developers of the framework. Impacted are dozens of popular Windows applications such as Microsoft’s Skype for Windows and Slack. Earlier th...

A Company Offers $500,000 For Secure Messaging Apps Zero-Day Exploits

How much does your privacy cost? It will soon be sold for half a Million US dollars. A controversial company specialises in acquiring and reselling zero-day exploits is ready to pay up to US$500,000 for working zero-day vulnerabilities targeting popular secure messenger applications, such as...

Paper Spells Out Tech, Legal Options for Encryption Workarounds

FBI Director James Comey’s dogged attachment to the argument that strong encryption hinders criminal investigations by law enforcement is heading into its third year with little signs of abatement. That insistence comes despite three years of arguments to the contrary from security experts, who...

Lawmakers Reintroduce Popular Email Privacy Act

A group of bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced the Email Privacy Act, a bill that would require law enforcement to get a warrant before searching email, Facebook messages and files stored on cloud services no matter how old the archives. The Email Privacy Act is an attempt to reform the decade-old...

Iran orders all Messaging Apps to store its citizens' data within Country

Last year, Iran blocked Telegram and many other social networks after their founders refused to help Iranian authorities to spy on their citizens. Now it looks like Iranian government wants tighter controls on all foreign messaging and social media apps operating in the country that will give the...

Data Leaking 'Surreptitious Sharing' Vulnerability Identified in Android API

Researchers have identified a vulnerability in an Android API used by messaging apps such as Skype and perhaps more concerning, privacy-centric apps such as Signal, and Telegram, that could lead to privilege escalation and data loss including private keys. Dominik Schürmann and Lars Wolf,...

UK to ban WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat Under New Laws

If you rely on messaging apps to remain in contact with your family members and friends, then you may have to switch back to old-fashioned text messaging service in matter of weeks due to a new law currently going through Parliament. WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to Ban in UK The popular...