Twitter has begun enabling SSL-secured connections as the default method for users to connect to the microblogging service.
The company said that it has begun configuring the feature as a default setting for some of its users, allowing users to always sign in to the service by way of an HTTPS connection.
SSL secured connections encrypt traffic...
A cryptographer has devised a way to monitor cellphone conversations by exploiting security weaknesses in the technology that forms the backbone used by most mobile operators.
Karsten Nohl, chief scientist of Berlin-based Security Research Labs, said the attack works because virtually all of the world’s cellular networks deploy insecure...
How do one ex-Air Force official and one former airplane hobby shop owner, both of whom happen to have decades of experience as network security contractors for the military, spend their weekends? Building a flying, unmanned, automated password-cracking, Wi-Fi-sniffing, cell-phone eavesdropping spy drone, of course.
At the Black Hat and Defcon...
With the Defcon 19 hacking conference set to begin in Las Vegas next week, hacking group/movement/”idea” Anonymous is touting its own “social network,” a site with the Googly moniker Anon+.
@YourAnonNews recently sent out a tweet advertising the effort, which seems to be an attempt to create an anonymous, open-source...
Researcher will demonstrate at Black Hat USA next week how ‘horrifyingly’ easy it is to disarm a car alarm system and control other GSM and cell-connected devices
It took researcher Don Bailey a mere two hours to successfully hack into a popular car alarm system and start the car remotely by sending it a message.
Bailey, a security...
