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Signal Foundation Warns Against EU’s Plan to Scan Private Messages for CSAM

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Jun 18, 2024NewsroomPrivacy / Encryption A controversial proposal put forth by the European Union to scan users' private messages for detection child sexual abuse material (CSAM) poses severe risks to end-to-end encryption (E2EE), warned Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the privacy-focused messaging service of the same name. "Mandating … [Read more...] about Signal Foundation Warns Against EU’s Plan to Scan Private Messages for CSAM

How to read encrypted messages from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots

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Israeli researchers from Offensive AI Lab have published a paper describing a method for restoring the text of intercepted AI chatbot messages. Today we take a look at how this attack works, and how dangerous it is in reality. What information can be extracted from intercepted AI chatbot messages? Naturally, chatbots send messages in encrypted form. All the same, the … [Read more...] about How to read encrypted messages from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots

Elon Musk Confirms Twitter 2.0 will Bring End-to-End Encryption to Direct Messages

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Twitter chief executive Elon Musk confirmed plans for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages on the platform. The feature is part of Musk's vision for Twitter 2.0, which is expected to be what's called an "everything app." Other functionalities include longform tweets and payments, according to a slide deck shared by Musk over the weekend. The company's plans for … [Read more...] about Elon Musk Confirms Twitter 2.0 will Bring End-to-End Encryption to Direct Messages

3 Best Practices to Effectively Manage Failed Messages

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In a recent blog post, Sharding Kafka for Increased Scale and Reliability, the CrowdStrike Engineering Site and Reliability Team shared how it overcame scaling limitations within Apache Kafka so that they could quickly and effectively process trillions of events daily. In this post, we focus on the other side of this equation: What happens when one of those messages inevitably … [Read more...] about 3 Best Practices to Effectively Manage Failed Messages

Phishing e-mail messages request cash for delivery

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By 2019, 14.1% of all retail purchases in the world occurred online, and some digital buying statistics show 1.92 billion digital buyers worldwide having received goods through various delivery services. On the average, any given buyer receives 19 deliveries per year. The 2020 figures are likely to be significantly higher. In this year of self-isolation, it’s no longer uncommon … [Read more...] about Phishing e-mail messages request cash for delivery

Unpatched Bug in GO SMS Pro App Exposes Millions of Media Messages

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GO SMS Pro, a popular messaging app for Android with over 100 million installs, has been found to have an unpatched security flaw that publicly exposes media transferred between users, including private voice messages, photos, and videos."This means any sensitive media shared between users of this messenger app is at risk of being compromised by an unauthenticated attacker or … [Read more...] about Unpatched Bug in GO SMS Pro App Exposes Millions of Media Messages

OkCupid Dating App Flaws Could’ve Let Hackers Read Your Private Messages

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Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed several security issues in popular online dating platform OkCupid that could potentially let attackers remotely spy on users' private information or perform malicious actions on behalf of the targeted accounts.According to a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers from Check Point found that the flaws in OkCupid's Android and … [Read more...] about OkCupid Dating App Flaws Could’ve Let Hackers Read Your Private Messages

Chinese Hackers Compromise Telecom Servers to Spy on SMS Messages

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A group of Chinese hackers carrying out political espionage for Beijing has been found targeting telecommunications companies with a new piece of malware designed to spy on text messages sent or received by highly targeted individuals.Dubbed "MessageTap," the backdoor malware is a 64-bit ELF data miner that has recently been discovered installed on a Linux-based Short Message … [Read more...] about Chinese Hackers Compromise Telecom Servers to Spy on SMS Messages