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Last month, Singapore hosted a summit between the leaders of North Korea and the United States. Accredited journalists invited to the event were given a press kit containing a bottle of water, various paper goods, and a fan that plugs into a USB port.
Understandably, the computer security crowd on Twitter had a great laugh. You shouldn’t plug random USB devices into a computer, especially if you’re a journalist, especially if you’re in a foreign country, and especially if you’re reporting on the highest profile international summit in recent memory. Doing so is just foolhardy.
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Continue reading Teardown Of USB Fan Reveals Journalists’ Lack Of Opsec
Journalists and sources may try to secure their communications not just with encryption, but also with automatically disappearing messages. But Signal has a nasty bug that can retain some messages. Continue reading Some Signal Disappearing Messages Are Not Disappearing
Journalists and sources may try to secure their communications not just with encryption, but also with automatically disappearing messages. But Signal has a nasty bug that can retain some messages. Continue reading Some Signal Disappearing Messages Are Not Disappearing
Don’t commit crimes. But if you do, don’t back up the evidence of your crimes to Apple or Google’s cloud, where it doesn’t matter that the evidence was originally end-to-end encrypted. Continue reading Paul Manafort’s Terrible Encrypted Messaging OPSEC Got Him Additional Charges
In the 1950s and 1960s, the NSA was very worried about employees spilling secrets. Here’s some of the best internal propaganda posters that taught them to keep their mouths shut. Continue reading The NSA Just Released 136 Historical Propaganda Posters
If you use the Signal desktop app, be careful with your notification settings. Continue reading ‘Disappearing’ Signal Messages Are Stored Indefinitely on Mac Hard Drives
In regards to PSK, a salt (the SSID) is used as part of the four-way handshake.
PSK = PBKDF2(PassPhrase, ssid, ssidLength, 4096, 256)
Would it not be more secure requiring users input a second “password”, which would act … Continue reading Wi-Fi – Proposal for stronger OpSec with PSK
This question seems to come up for my often, and despite all the Windows backlash I’d like to check and see what the actual deal is.
For a daily driver, is there any security benefit to using Mac OS x or Linux over Windows? … Continue reading Windows vs Unix Overall Security/Privacy [on hold]
Hacking just got fully automated for script kiddies. Continue reading New Tool Automatically Finds and Hacks Vulnerable Internet-Connected Devices