SAN FRANCISCO - Wickr, an SMS encryption program, launched Monday in beta on Android. The app's argument is simple: its San Francisco-based makers claim that Wickr, now cross-platform between Android and iOS, provides the most secure text messaging apparatus currently available. It uses AES-256, RSA-4096, ECDH-521, Transport Layer Security, and SHA-256 to encode data while
GRAND RAPIDS ? More than 800 security professionals attended the first day of GRRCon, Midwest Information Security & Hacker CON, roughly the same amount as the year before. But exhibitors at the show were up by a third, the show?s co-producer said Thursday. Chris Payne, a security professional in Grand Rapids, said he had to
GRAND RAPIDS - LED Lights marked the Speakers badges fueled by a tiny Arduino chip. Wireless hacking stations made you scared to get on any Wi-Fi service. You have no idea who to trust at GRRCon, the third annual Midwest IT Hacker Con, which began Thursday. Day one was packed full of events, including four
SAN FRANCISCO - A new variant of the Tibet malware for OS X has been found. This variant uses a recently patched Java exploit to install a backdoor service in targeted systems and allow a remote hacker to log in and steal files. While OS X has been affected relatively minimally by malware, the platform
LONDON, UK - Another shoe has dropped in the National Security Agency's covert mass surveillance program. Whistleblower Edward Snowden has provided The Guardian with a document that outlines the NSA's widespread sharing of "US persons" cellular and e-mail metadata with Israel. According to The Guardian, "US persons" include US citizens, permanent residents, and anyone located
DAMASCUS, Syria - If the United States attacks Syria, it will be the first time it strikes a country that is capable of waging retaliatory cyberspace attacks on American targets. The risk is heightened by Syria's alliance with Iran, which has built up its cyber capability in the past three years, and already gives the
DEARBORN ? ISACA Detroit's Sept. 18 Chapter Meeting features a talk called Dark Cloud Rising during dinner and another called Data Masking Case Study after. The dinner speaker is Melissa Markey, while the post dinner discussion will be offered by Keith Fournier, MA, MBA, PMP, APMC, CMS, GISP, CDIA. The meeting will be held at
WASHINGTON DC - A full 50 percent of Internet users surveyed say they're concerned about the growing amount of personal information revealed about them online. A study released Thursday by Pew Internet found that more people are worried about certain information now available online, including photos, videos, e-mail addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, home addresses,
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network and the Michigan Cyber Range Thursday announced the new Merit Secure Sandbox service, a virtual environment that lets users practice, train, and test cybersecurity techniques, is now operational. Merit Secure Sandbox is designed for instructors to set up their own virtual environments for cybersecurity training. It is also aimed at
WASHINGTON DC - The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association have bonded in their fight against the National Security Agency's mass spying program that came to light in June. The NRA joined the ACLU's lawsuit against the government agency on Wednesday by filing a "friend of the court" legal brief. "The mass