ISIS Secure Messaging App Uncovered
ISIS is known for its strong affinity to modern technological solutions, using encrypted apps like Telegram to communicate in secret from prying eyes, and...
A Strong Case For Strong Encryption
by Konstantin Bodragin
A vocal and at times fierce debate over encryption has developed in recent months. On the one side are those proposing the...
Most Cyber Products Will Not Be Included Under New Supervision Law
About two weeks after publishing the draft of the export law for supervision on cyber export, and as part of the talks between exporters...
Computers Can Be Fooled By Optical Illusions, Raising Security Concerns
Computer vision has made great strides over recent years. Machines can now recognise objects nearly as well as humans. However, the similarity does not...
North Korea’s Paranoid Operating System Revealed
Two German researchers recently ran an analysis of North Korea’s homegrown operating system, Red Star OS. Turns out, Red Star mirrors quite closely the...
Teenager Breaks Into Personal E-mail of US Security Official. Again.
A second high-ranking American intelligence official has had his personal accounts breached in roughly three months.
The personal online accounts of James Clapper, director...
US Seeks Help of Tech Companies to Combat Terrorism
Top officials of the Obama administration have met leading Internet companies in Silicon Valley in an effort to build cooperation with them in combating...
Yahoo To Warn Users Of State Sponsored Hacking
Yahoo is now starting to warn users if they’ve been targeted by state-sponsored hackers, following similar moves by Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
The announcement came...
MIT Invents A Messaging System More Anonymous Than Tor
Researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new online text messaging...
Image-Based System Could Replace Multi-Factor Authentication
Researchers from the Centre for Security Communication and Network Research (CSCAN) at Plymouth University have developed a new system for secure, multi-level authentication that...
Drug Cartels Can Now Spoof Patrol Drones Along US Border
UAVs have become a common presence in the US military, but they have also spread to other US law enforcement agencies like local police...
Criminals Rake In $70 Million By Spreading Malware
Criminals are earning around $70 million a year by installing malware on users’ devices, a new study RiskIQ study reveals.
The “Digital Bait” study,...
Your Child’s Toy Could Be Spying On Them
One of the most popular gifts this year is the Hello Barbie, an internet-connected doll that actively listens and responds to children, using fairly...
Major Hack in Juniper Networks Equipment
US officials are worried that hackers backed by foreign governments were able to spy on communications between the US government and private companies for...
Anonymous Claim To Have Foiled ISIS Attack On Italy
Anonymous are stepping up their game in the fight against ISIS, if latest claim by the hacktivist collective is to be believed.
It has now...
IoH – Internet of Humans
By Avi Yariv
A few weeks ago I heard a presentation of CEO of a leading Israeli company, developing technologies for IoT – the new...
Jihadists Plans Are Public – Why Aren’t Authorities Acting?
Recently there have been increasingly vocal calls for weakening encryption heard around the world, with the strongest of them in the US. Federal authorities...
Anonymous Declares War On Turkey
Turkey has been accused by a variety of sources of aiding and abetting ISIS. Some of the accusations include giving medical treatment to ISIS...
Critics of UK “Snoopers Charter” Claim Massive Technical Flaws
Adrian Kennard, head of UK ISP Andrews & Arnold, an Internet service provider, has warned of major technical issues with the proposed Investigatory Powers...
New Technology Can Detect Physical Attacks Using WiFi Signals
The Internet of Things (IoT) is fast becoming an everyday reality, with about half of enterprises set to deploy IoT solutions by the end...
Blockchains To Protect UK’s Nuclear Power Plants
Power plants are some of the most critical bits on infrastructure. An attack against a power plant could incapacitate an entire region of any...
A Comprehensive Cyber Attack On ISIS – Pros and Cons
The Pentagon is set to step up its cyber warfare efforts against ISIS, and is arguing that disabling the group’s computers, mobile phones, and...
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Drones Could Soon Navigate Collapsed Buildings Without Slowing Down
Flying autonomous drones through unpredictable environments remains one of the biggest technical challenges in robotics. In confined spaces such as collapsed buildings, industrial sites,...
