In this paper we describe a new type of threat in which adjacent IoT devices will infect each other with a worm that will spread explosively over large areas in a kind of nuclear chain reaction, provided that the density of compatible IoT devices exceeds a certain critical mass. In particular, we developed and verified Read more about IoT Goes Nuclear – Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction / How they hacked your Philips Hue and made a worm[…]

As explained in a paper titled A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol (PDF) from the International Association for Cryptologic Research, Signal has no discernible flaws and offers a well-designed and compromise-resistant architecture. Signal uses a double rachet algorithm that employs ephemeral key exchanges continually during each session, minimising the amount of text Read more about ‘Trust it’: Results of Signal’s first formal crypto analysis are in[…]

Cisco has fixed a vulnerability in its Professional Careers portal that may have exposed truckloads of personal information. The networking giant has sent an email to affected users in which it says a “limited set of job application related information” was leaked from the mobile version of the website, blaming an “incorrect security setting” placed Read more about Cisco’s job applications site leaked personal data[…]