by ray | Mar 15, 2017 | Security, Tech News
Researchers from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Queensland University of Technology in Australia and McMaster University in Canada gave the messaging application a fervent thumbs up. “We have found no major flaws in its design, which is very...
by ray | Mar 15, 2017 | Security, Tech News
Earlier this year, Open Whisper Systems was served with a federal subpoena for records on its users, according to documents published today. Prosecutors were seeking data on two suspects who used Signal, an encrypted chat app produced by Open Whisper. Unfortunately...
by ray | Mar 15, 2017 | Security, Tech News
Two-factor authentication is one of the best things you can do to make sure your accounts don’t get hacked. We’ve talked about it a bit before, but here’s a list of all the popular services that offer it, and where you should go to turn it on right...
by ray | Mar 14, 2017 | Security, Tech News
A week ago Friday, someone took down numerous popular websites in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the domain name provider Dyn. DDoS attacks are neither new nor sophisticated. The attacker sends a massive amount of traffic, causing the...
by ray | Mar 14, 2017 | Security, Tech News
Just months after disclosing a breach that compromised the passwords for a half billion of its users, Yahoo now says a separate incident has jeopardized data from at least a billion more user accounts. The company also warned attackers have figured out a way to log...
by ray | Oct 27, 2016 | Security
SEE ALSO: If Apple loses to the FBI, we’re all screwed First, some background: An iPhone 5C used by a gunman, Syed Farook, in the San Bernardino attack was recovered by the FBI. The phone — which was running iOS 9 — was locked with a passcode. The FBI believes...
