Converso, a relatively new privacy-focused messaging service, has withdrawn its
application from both the Google and Apple app stores amid growing concerns over
a significant security flaw.

Crnković, an independent blogger renowned for his deep interest in encryption
protocols, uncovered the flaw while analyzing the Android version of the
Converso app.

His analysis [https://crnkovic.dev/testing-converso/] unearthed references to
both AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Ad

The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) announced that Ukraine, Ireland, Japan and Iceland joined the organization. The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) is a multinational organization established to enhance cyber defence capabilities and promote cooperation among NATO member countries and partner nations. “On its 15th anniversary, the NATO Cooperative Cyber […]

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Cisco has released updates to address a set of nine security flaws in its Small Business Series Switches that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
“These vulnerabilities are due to improper validation of requests that are sent to the web interface,” Cisco said, crediting an unnamed external researcher for

A U.S. national has pleaded guilty in a Missouri court to operating a darknet carding site and selling financial information belonging to tens of thousands of victims in the country.
Michael D. Mihalo, aka Dale Michael Mihalo Jr. and ggmccloud1, has been accused of setting up a carding site called Skynet Market that specialized in the trafficking of credit and debit card data.
Mihalo and his

Apple has announced that it prevented over $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions and rejected roughly 1.7 million app submissions for privacy and security violations in 2022.
The computing giant said it terminated 428,000 developer accounts for potential fraudulent activity, blocked 105,000 fake developer account creations, and deactivated 282 million bogus customer accounts. It

În ultimii ani, paginile de rețele sociale au devenit bunuri valoroase pentru
infractorii cibernetici. Conturi sau pagini deturnate sunt folosite drept
panouri publicitare digitale. Astfel hackerii promovează escrocherii cu
criptomonede, fraudele de investiții sau răspândesc programe malițioase.

Mai multe pagini de Facebook verificate și cu reputație bună au devenit victime
ale unor atacuri cibernetice în ultimele zile și au început să-și direcționeze
urmăritorii către programe malware. Dintre

Der 17. Mai ist Welttag der Telekommunikation und Informationsgesellschaft. Er
soll die vielseitigen Chancen und Möglichkeiten des Internets (unter anderem)
hervorheben und so durch Förderung umfassender digitaler Transformation und
Konnektivität helfen, die digitale Kluft zu überwinden.

Ohne die Telekommunikationsgeräte und Informationstechnologien, die jeden Aspekt
unserer täglichen Interaktionen fundamental verändert haben, würde unser Leben
heute anders aussehen.

Nach den neuesten Zahlen d

The rapid proliferation of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is spearheading digital transformation, leading to explosive growth in adoption of APIs in recent years. In fact, it’s hard to think of any software that doesn’t use or is in itself, an API. By supporting swift development and deployment, they help developers quickly and efficiently bring applications […]

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