Better Security, 'Progressive Encryption' in Silent Text 2.0

Silent Circle has released a new version of its private text messaging and secure file transfer service for Android and iOS mobile devices. Silent Text 2.0 includes a number of security and user-interface upgrades. The company claims this version eliminates a keying delay issue that existed in...

Netherlands, Canada Say WhatsApp Still Violates Privacy Laws

Dutch and Canadian officials say the popular mobile text messaging app WhatsApp violates their countries’ privacy laws because it rifles through users’ contacts to find other devices hooked up to the service. The announcement Monday follows a joint investigation launched a year ago into whether...

Bug Hunters have Windows 8 Zeroday Exploit

French security researcher firm and famous bug hunters at Vupen announced that it had already developed an exploit that could take over a Window 8 machine running Internet Explorer 10, in spite of the many significant security upgrades Microsoft built into the latest version of its operating...

Facebook Letting Users Designate 'Guardian Angel' Friends To Restore Locked Accounts

Social networking giant Facebook said on Thursday that it is testing a feature that will allow users to designate certain friends as ‘guardian angels’ entrusted with helping the user to recover a locked or hijacked account. The company, which has already experimented with forms of “social...

[USN-38-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-38-1 December 14, 2004 linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities CAN-2004-0814, CAN-2004-1016, CAN-2004-1056, CAN-2004-1058, CAN-2004-1068, CAN-2004-1069, CAN-2004-1137, CAN-2004-1151...