Day: March 10, 2020

Whisper App Exposes Entire History of Chat Logs, personal details and location

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Whisper, the anonymous messaging app beloved by teens and tweens the world over, has a problem: it’s not as anonymous as we’d thought. The platform is only the latest that brands itself as private by design while leaking sensitive user data into the open, according to a damning Washington Post report out earlier today. According Read more about Whisper App Exposes Entire History of Chat Logs, personal details and location[…]

Intel CPUs vulnerable to new LVI attacks, allows information injection

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Named Load Value Injection, or LVI for short, this is a new class of theoretical attacks against Intel CPUs. While the attack has been deemed only a theoretical threat, Intel has released firmware patches to mitigate attacks against current CPUs, and fixes will be deployed at the hardware (silicon design) level in future generations. A Read more about Intel CPUs vulnerable to new LVI attacks, allows information injection[…]

Avast’s and AVG AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Web researcher David Eade found and reported CVE-2020-8987 to Avast: this is a trio of blunders that, when combined, can be exploited by a snooper to silently intercept and tamper with an AntiTrack user’s connections to even the most heavily secured websites. This is because when using AntiTrack, your web connections are routed through the Read more about Avast’s and AVG AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping[…]