The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has broken off its partnerships with Chinese telecoms equipment makers Huawei and ZTE, amidst them facing US federal investigations. MIT follows suite moves by Stanford University, University of California’s flagship Berkeley and the University of Minnesota, who have all cut future research collaborations with Huawei ... Read More

Yesterday, Kali Linux’s first release for 2019 was announced. Kali Linux 2019.1 comes with a variety of changes and new features including, support for Metasploit version 5.0, kernel up to version 4.19.13, ARM updates and numerous bug fixes. Users with a Kali installation can upgrade using: root@kali:~# apt update && ... Read More

Baptiste Robert, a French security researcher who goes by the online handle Elliot Alderson, has found a vulnerability in a WordPress plugin called Social Network Tabs. The plugin leaks user’s Twitter account information exposing them to compromise. This WordPress plugin is developed by Design Chemical, which allows websites to help ... Read More

EU’s proposed copyright bill has received major oppositions from Europeans for its Articles 11 and 13, also known as the “censorship machines” rule and the “link tax” rule. Major European countries including Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, have been quite vocal about their resistance to support the latest version of ... Read More

The Electronic frontier foundation is taking part in copyright week. Their motto, “Copyright should encourage more speech, not act as a legal cudgel to silence it.” According to EFF, copyright law often belongs in a majority to the media and entertainment industries, with little to no effect on other domains ... Read More

It has been only two months since Google reported a bug discovery in one of the Google+ People APIs, which affected up to 500,000 Google+ accounts, initiating the shutdown of Google+. Yesterday, Google+ suffered another massive data leak that has impacted approximately 52.5 million users in connection with a Google+ ... Read More

On Thursday, Australia passed a rushed assistance and access bill which will allow Australian police and government the powers to issue technical notices. The Labor party had planned to amend the legislation. However, even after calling the bill flawed, Labor pulled its amendments in the Senate and the bill was ... Read More

Mastercard has partnered with Microsoft to help people better manage and use their digital identity. Current identity management systems are complex in proving user identity and managing their data. Following this, Mastercard and Microsoft are provided a way for people to instantly verify their digital identity with whomever they want, ... Read More

Google’s Project Dragonfly has faced significant criticism and scrutiny from both the public and Google employees. In a major report yesterday, the Intercept revealed how internal conversations around Google’s censored search engine for China shut out Google’s legal, privacy, and security teams. According to named and anonymous senior Googlers who ... Read More

Last month, JFrog a DevOps based artifact management platform bagged a $165 million Series D funding. Now they are announcing JFrog Xray, a binary analysis tool for performing recursive security scans and dependency analyses on all standard software package and container types. It performs a multilayer analysis of containers and ... Read More