Cybersecurity and anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has reportedly tried to mislead reporters into believing that he had sabotaged Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. Apparently, this isn’t the first time that the self-styled libertarian gained media attention for such outlandish claims like when he told the FBI that he’ll help them hack into the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone.
A US court have now ordered Apple to crack an iPhone in another case in the name of fighting crime. Apple still are firm on their decision. A US magistrate court in Massachusetts has signed a court order demanding Apple to retrive content in the form of text messages, pictures along with other data from their cloud servers uploaded through the culprit's iPhone last year to help police investigate suspected gang crimes according to a document uploaded online by the ACLU.
Security experts at Johns Hopkins University demonstrated that the exploit allowed them to guess the 64-bit decryption key.
Nano-spirals developed by researchers at University of Vanderbilt have unique optical properties that can be used on credit cards and for tracking purposes.
Researchers have shown a vulnerability created in the 90s which plagues today's systems.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
