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[Link] Advice on How to Use Telegram Safely
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Russian police have started stopping people in the street and scrolling through messages stored on their phone, according to a video uploaded to social media.
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[Link] Lid blown off Conti ransomware gang after leaked internal files analyzed
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
It was a Ukrainian security specialist who apparently turned the tables on the notorious Russia-based Conti, and leaked the ransomware gang's source code, chat logs, and tons of other sensitive data about the gang's operations, tools, and costs.
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[Link] WhatsApp criticised for plan to allow messages to disappear after 24 hours
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
WhatsApp users are to be given the option to have their messages disappear after 24 hours, a change that drew immediate criticism from children’s charities. In a blog post announcing the change, WhatsApp, which has 2 billion users, said its mission was to “connect the world privately”.
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[Link] Operation Ironside nets 18 more suspects as police seize guns and drugs
Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Another 18 men have been arrested in South Australia as part of ongoing Operation Ironside investigations, including two who have been charged with false imprisonment.
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[Link] Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday a Finnish court ruled that chat messages secretly gathered by the FBI from encrypted phone company Anom can’t be used as evidence against two particular suspects, according to a report from Finnish outlet Iltalehti.
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[Link] Air Force Spent Millions on Encrypted App Wickr
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. Air Force has spent millions of dollars on licenses from encrypted chat platform Wickr, according to Air Force documents and public procurement records reviewed by Motherboard. The documents further solidify Wickr’s position as a preferred tool of the U.S. government and military.
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[Link] A third of all dark web domains are now v3 onion sites
Read: 25/11/2021 therecord.media
Throughout 2020 and 2021, the Tor anonymity network has gone through a major change as the Tor software team has released a new version of its software that updated how .onion domains look and work. More specifically, the Tor Project has done away with 16-character-long .
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[Link] Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users’ messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.
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[Link] Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade
Read: 9/11/2021 www.technologyreview.com
The threat comes from quantum computers, which work very differently from the classical computers we use today. Instead of the traditional bits made of 1s and 0s, they use quantum bits that can represent different values at the same time.
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[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.
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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.
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[Link] Organised crime going undetected, says AFP, as Australian hits US ‘most wanted’ list
Read: 17/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
A top security official has warned that 90 per cent of Australia’s organised crime groups are operating with relative impunity, as police say employees of the Australian arm of Dubai’s government air services company have been used to infiltrate Sydney airport and smuggle drugs.
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