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Signal has announced an upgrade to its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol to protect users of its popular messaging app from encryption-breaking attacks through quantum computers. Getting ready for quantum computing “Quantum computing represen… Continue reading Signal takes a quantum leap with E2EE protocol upgrade
Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store.
An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play roughly 100 times before Google took it down last April after being tipped off by security firm ESET. It was also available in the Samsung app store and on signalplus[.]org, a dedicated website mimicking the official Signal.org. An app calling itself FlyGram, meanwhile, was created by the same threat actor and was available through the same three channels. Google removed it from Play in 2021. Both apps remain available in the Samsung store…
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ESET researchers have identified two active campaigns targeting Android users, where the threat actors behind the tools for Telegram and Signal are attributed to the China-aligned APT group GREF. Most likely active since July 2020 and since July 2022, … Continue reading Trojanized Signal, Telegram apps found on Google Play, Samsung Galaxy Store
Signal claims they only know when users created their account and when users last connected to the server, but what about the message queue waiting for users devices to come online?
I don’t know how Signal Protocol works, but it must be ti… Continue reading How does Signal protocol work? Message queue is somehow disappeared after requested?
Say WhatsApp and Signal on Android devices, how do they keep the E2EE not be broken?
Some answers claimed that WhatsApp uses VoIP background mode on iOS to make the push notification invoke the app to decrypt the message and send a local n… Continue reading How do end-to-end encryption (E2EE) IM apps implementing push notifications? [duplicate]
Researchers have developed a new technique to better detect extraterrestrial radio signals by weeding out the interference caused by Earth-based devices. It’s hoped that the technique will lead to the discovery of the first evidence of life outside our… Continue reading New technique will more accurately detect ET’s signals from space
I am a front-end developer with little experience in infosec and there is a popular tutorial by Rob Braxman you can view here:
https://rumble.com/v24xdb9-session-private-messenger-really-understands-privacy.html
regarding monitoring sessio… Continue reading Can session traffic be monitored on Signal? [closed]
Over the last 15 years or so, astronomers have detected hundreds of unexplained radio signals from space, which they call fast radio bursts (FRBs). Now a fresh look at radio telescope data has doubled the number of known sources, bringing us closer to … Continue reading Number of known sources of repeating radio signals in space doubles
In an open letter, seven secure messaging apps—including Signal and WhatsApp—point out that the UK’s Online Safety Bill could destroy end-to-end encryption:
As currently drafted, the Bill could break end-to-end encryption,opening the door to routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal messages of friends, family members, employees, executives, journalists, human rights activists and even politicians themselves, which would fundamentally undermine everyone’s ability to communicate securely.
The Bill provides no explicit protection for encryption, and if implemented as written, could empower OFCOM to try to force the proactive scanning of private messages on end-to-end encrypted communication services—nullifying the purpose of end-to-end encryption as a result and compromising the privacy of all users…
The boss of WhatsApp, the most popular messaging platform in the UK, says that it will not remove end-to-end encryption from the app to comply with requirements set out in the UK government’s online safety bill.
Learn more in my article on the Hot f… Continue reading WhatsApp and UK government on collision course, as app vows not to remove end-to-end encryption