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Signal is armed with measures to instil a sense of privacy in users by preventing undisclosed screenshotting and screencasting message threads, and by enabling the sender to set their text, audio and video-based messages to disappe… Continue reading Signal — Can message previews of the messages you send be disabled in the chats’ list of your addressee?
I was reading the Signal protocol on how it handles out-of-order messages. What if those messages never arrived, does Signal keep the keys forever or are the keys deleted as soon as a new session is started?
https://signal.org/docs/specif… Continue reading How long does Signal keep the keys for out-of-order messages?
Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker:
WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. That was absolutely a visionary choice that Brian and his team led back in the day - and big props to them for doing that. But you can’t just look at that and then stop at message protection. WhatsApp does not protect metadata the way that Signal does. Signal knows nothing about who you are. It doesn’t have your profile information and it has introduced group encryption protections. We don’t know who you are talking to or who is in the membership of a group. It has gone above and beyond to minimize the collection of metadata…
Signal is phasing out SMS support from Android to enable it to focus on developing a more secure and reliable platform.
The post Signal to remove SMS support from Android appeared first on TechRepublic.
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PQShield published a white paper that lays out the quantum threat to secure end-to-end messaging and explains how post-quantum cryptography (PQC) can be added to the Signal secure messaging protocol to protect it from quantum attacks. The company is of… Continue reading Researchers publish post-quantum upgrade to the Signal protocol
Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. Continue reading How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability
Group-IB has discovered that the recently disclosed phishing attacks on the employees of Twilio and Cloudflare were part of the massive phishing campaign that resulted in 9,931 accounts of over 130 organizations being compromised. The campaign was code… Continue reading 0ktapus: Twilio, Cloudflare phishers targeted 130+ organizations
Twilio was hacked earlier this month, and the phone numbers of 1,900 Signal users were exposed:
Here’s what our users need to know:
- All users can rest assured that their message history, contact lists, profile information, whom they’d blocked, and other personal data remain private and secure and were not affected.
- For about 1,900 users, an attacker could have attempted to re-register their number to another device or learned that their number was registered to Signal. This attack has since been shut down by Twilio. 1,900 users is a very small percentage of Signal’s total users, meaning that most were not affected…
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The attacker behind the recent Twilio data breach may have accessed phone numbers and SMS registration codes for 1,900 users of the popular secure messaging app Signal. “Among the 1,900 phone numbers, the attacker explicitly searched for three nu… Continue reading 1,900 Signal users exposed following Twilio breach
Why is it so easy to send spam messages via iMessage? Does this shortcoming make using Pegasus exploits easier for attackers? I assume Signal, Facebook Messenger, which allow users much more control who can message them, don’t cause as muc… Continue reading Why doesn’t iMessage allow users to block unknown contacts?