The biggest U.S. internet wiretapping program outside the NSA may be headed to the Supreme Court. Google is asking the high court to rule on the legality of the company’s past sniffing of unencrypted Wi-Fi traffic in neighborhoods around the country as part of its Street View program. An appeals court last September found that the sniffing ... Read More »
Phishing: The act of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Problem- Most phishing occurs when a client clicks on a URL that is embedded in an email, social media site, adware etc and is redirected to a ... Read More »
With more than 450 million users and a price tag of 19 billion USD WhatsApp has become one of the largest cross-platform text messaging and multi-media apps. However as new reports have shown the security of this text messaging service may be inconsistent to what they advertise, leaving their 450 million users in jeopardy. In order to make sense ... Read More »
GnuTLS, an open source SSL and TLS implementation used in hundreds of software packages including Red Hat desktop and server products and all Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions, is the latest crypto package to improperly verify digital certificates as authentic. The vulnerability, discovered and reported yesterday by engineers at Red Hat, puts ... Read More »
