WhatsApp

While you try to lock down your windows, your door could be wide open. Many of my friends ask me if I get bored writing about encryption day-after-day. Well, this... The post ...

Facebook announced an interesting new limitation to WhatsApp with the clear goal of curbing the spread of false information related to COVID-19. While it’s difficult to dispute the benefits of having a ...

In episode 113 for March 23rd 2020: Israel passes an emergency law to use mobile data to track people infected with COVID-19, the latest coronavirus cyber-attacks to be aware of, and how ...

Jeff Bezos’s phone was hacked by Saudi Arabia last week, thanks to a video containing malicious code. While the situation was pretty specific—Jeff Bezos was targeted because assets through an attack that ...

The 2019 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors lists improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer as the most critical weakness that leads to a dangerous vulnerability ...

You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 93 for November 4th 2019: The WhatsApp NSO group ...

Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook plan to backdoor WhatsApp by adding client-side scanning and filtering. It seems that I was wrong, and there are no such plans. The only source for ...

This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include ...

May 2019 was the busiest month of the year for critical security vulnerabilities and patch announcements. The standout was a Microsoft critical security update for Windows, rated with a CVSS score of ...

The recent WhatsApp™ hack is pretty alarming: all the hackers had to do was drop a missed encrypted WhatsApp call to their target and—boom—spyware was installed. The hack didn’t require the user ...