Given the high trust we have on Gmail we tend to believe that all messages that fall into our inbox are legit and safe, but there is something to know … 1. Introduction Taking good care of e-mail messages is certainly among the first recommendations of any information security policy and user awareness program. The involved […]
WhatsApp development team is working on a number of new features, including the possibility to revoke sent message and to track Friends Live Location What’s app is working to improve user’s experience introducing new features, in particular, today I’ll speak about two of them about the possibility to track friends location and also to revoke […]
A notorious security expert has discovered online an open Rsync server hosting the personal details for at least 200,000 IndyCar racing fans. The notorious expert Chris Vickery has discovered an open Rsync server hosting the personal details for at least 200,000 racing fans. Further analysis revealed that data belongs to the archive of a defunct racing […]
The TorWorld initiative aims to build a community area for those people that desire to set up either a Tor Relay or a Tor Exit node. We all recognize the importance of the Tor network, an important instrument to protect users’ anonymity and avoid censorship. Today I desire to present you an interesting initiative launched by Tor […]
The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The oligarchy of internet companies. […]
Lavabit, the Snowden recommended encrypted email service, is back. Its CEO Ladar Levison announced new privacy-enhancing features. Do you remember Lavabit? It was the US Encrypted Email Service used by the popular whistleblower Edward Snowden. Lavabit was an encrypted webmail service founded in 2004 by Ladar Levison, it closed on August 8, 2013 after the US authorities ordered it to turn […]
The popular encrypted email provider ProtonMail has launched the Tor Hidden Service to provide further protection to its users. ProtonMail is the world’s largest encrypted email provider with over 2 million users worldwide. Its popularity exploded just after the US presidential election, its users include journalists, activists, businesses, and normal people that want to protect their […]
Key findings of a new study conducted by Keeper Security that analyzed 10 million hacked accounts from breached data dumps for the most popular passwords. Users’ bad habits are still one of the biggest problems for the IT industry, weak passwords and their reuse on multiple websites every day potentially expose a billion users to cyber […]
A security issue can be used to intercept and read encrypted messages. Is this a WhatsApp backdoor? Which are potential risks? Is the popular messaging service Whatsapp affected by a backdoor? According to a blog post published by The Guardian, the application was affected by a vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to intercept and read messages. […]
Google hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a serious flaw that affects the Kaspersky antivirus software and the way it manages inspection digital certificates. Experts from Kaspersky are solving a problem that disabled certificate validation for 400 million users. The problem was spotted by the notorious Google hacker Tavis Ormandy, the vulnerability affects the Kaspersky antivirus software […]