Author Archives: Swati Khandelwal

Apple hires developer of World’s Most Secure Messaging App

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Apple is serious this time to enhance its iPhone security that even it can not hack. To achieve this the company has hired one of the key developers of Signal — World’s most secure, open source and encrypted messaging app.

Frederic Jacobs, who worked to develop Signal, announced today that he is joining Apple this summer to work as an intern in its CoreOS security team.

“I’m delighted to

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Judge Confirms Government Paid CMU Scientists to Hack Tor Users for FBI

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Everything is now crystal clear:

The security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) were hired by the federal officials to discover a technique that could help the FBI Unmask Tor users and Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal … Continue reading Judge Confirms Government Paid CMU Scientists to Hack Tor Users for FBI→

How to Hack a Computer from 100 Meters by Hijacking its Wireless Mouse or Keyboard

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No matter how secure you think your computer might be, something malicious can always happen. As a Computer is an open book with right tools and talent.
The same is proved by a group of security researchers by hacking into a computer with no internet, … Continue reading How to Hack a Computer from 100 Meters by Hijacking its Wireless Mouse or Keyboard→

Ricochet — Most Secure Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messenger that Sends No Metadata

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There are several encrypted messaging apps for mobile and desktop platforms that shipped with “The Most Secure” tagline but ends up in de-anonymizing the real identity of its users in some or the other way.

In fact, very few encrypted messaging apps available today deal with the core problem of Metadata. 

The majority of apps offer end-to-end encryption that kept the content of your

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