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How Your Car Shares Data with Insurers & TikTok Ban Impact

The TikTok Ban Bill, Your Car is Spying on You, Signal’s Username Update

| | Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Federal Privacy Law, Information Security, Infosec, insurance, Insurance Companies, messaging, phone numbers, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, secure messaging, security, signal, surveillance, technology, TikTok, TikTok Ban, tracking, US government, usernames, Weekly Edition
In episode 321, the hosts discuss how connected cars are sharing driving data with insurance companies, potentially leading to increased rates for drivers. They also talk about the anti-TikTok bill passed by ...
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Signal Intros Quantum-Resistant Encryption for App

| | Cybersecurity, messaging app, post quantum, signal
The developers of the Signal messaging app are strengthening the app’s central encryption capabilities for the upcoming post-quantum era. Signal is upgrading the Signal Protocol – the cryptographic specifications behind the end-to-end ...
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Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store

| | cyberespionage, Espionage, open source, signal, spyware, Telegram, Uncategorized
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 ...
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BadBazaar: Chinese Spyware Shams Signal, Telegram Apps

| | android, android spyware, APT15, BadBazaar, Flygram, google, Google Play Incompetence, Google Play Store, GREF, Lukas Stefanko, Nickel, Samsung, SB Blogwatch, signal, Signal Plus Messenger, spyware, Telegram, Vixen Panda
After sneaking into Google and Samsung app stores, “GREF” APT targets Uyghurs and other PRC minorities ...
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Advanced Frida Usage Part 2 – Analyzing Signal and Telegram messages on iOS | 8kSec Blogs

Advanced Frida Usage Part 2 – Analyzing Signal and Telegram messages on iOS | 8kSec Blogs

| | Binary Instrumentation, Frida, ios, signal, Telegram
Introduction In this blog post, we will explore the message objects in two popular chat applications: Signal and Telegram. We’ll take similar technical approaches to analyze them, and also learn how to ...
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Artificial Ignorance & Pen Testing - Kevin Johnson - PSW #785

Google Now Supports Passkeys, Risky New Top Level Domains, Twitter’s Encryption Dilemma

| | Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Direct Messages, end-to-end encryption, Episodes, google, Information Security, Infosec, Passkeys, passwordless, passwords, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, signal, technology, TLD, Top Level Domain, Twitter, Weekly Edition, WhatsApp
In this episode, we explore the arrival of passwordless Google accounts that use “passkeys,” which offer enhanced usability and security. We discuss the benefits of passkeys over traditional passwords, but also why ...
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Governments Try to Ban Encryption (Yet Again)

Governments Try to Ban Encryption (Yet Again)

| | Child Abuse, child exploitation, child porn, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, CSAM, encryption, end-to-end encryption, SB Blogwatch, signal, Threema, WhatsApp, Won’t somebody think of the children?
Déjà vu: Yet again, they’re tugging on the “think of the children” strings. But you can’t make math illegal ...
Security Boulevard
The LastPass Attack Gets Worse, What is Gamification, Signal's Encryption Standoff

The LastPass Attack Gets Worse, What is Gamification, Signal’s Encryption Standoff

| | Attack, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, end-to-end encryption, Episodes, gamification, Information Security, Infosec, lastpass, legislation, password manager, passwords, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, Security Awareness, signal, technology, training, uk, United Kingdom, Weekly Edition
Popular password manager LastPass suffered a second attack that lasted for over two months. Now new and disturbing information is being released about the attack. Scott discusses the benefits and challenges of ...
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Attack of the Wi-Fi Spy Drones, How to Destroy Your Old Electronics, Signal Removes SMS Support

Attack of the Wi-Fi Spy Drones, How to Destroy Your Old Electronics, Signal Removes SMS Support

| | android, Cyber Security, Cyber-attack, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Distruction, Data Privacy, Data Wipe, Digital Privacy, drones, electronics, encryption, end-to-end encryption, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, Mobile, Mobile App, Old Electronics, Physical Security, Podcast, Privacy, security, signal, SMS, spying, technology, Weekly Edition, Wi-Fi Spy Drones
Two modified wi-fi enabled drones were found on the top of a financial firm’s building and used to intercept a employee’s credentials, a fun discussion about the best way to physically destroy ...
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Interview with Signal’s New President

| | facebook, Interviews, metadata, Privacy, signal, Uncategorized, WhatsApp
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 ...
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