WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow 'Potential Attackers' to Spy On Encrypted Group Chats

The Hacker News Daily Updates Threat Monitoring, Detection and Response Report The ultimate research on threat management. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jan 11, 2018 macOS Malware Creator Charged With Spying on Thousands of PCs Over 13 Years The U.S. Justice Department unsealed 16-count indictment charges on Wednesday against a computer programmer from Ohio who is accused of creating and installing spyware on thousands of computers for more than 13 years. According to the indictment, 28-year-old Phillip R. Durachinsky is the alleged ... Read More [Bug] macOS High Sierra App Store Preferences Can Be Unlocked Without a Password Yet another password vulnerability has been uncovered in macOS High Sierra, which unlocks App Store System Preferences with any password (or no password at all). A new password bug has been discovered in the latest version of macOS High Sierra that allows anyone with access to your Mac to unlock ... Read More WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow 'Potential Attackers' to Spy On Encrypted Group Chats A more dramatic revelation of 2018—an outsider can secretly eavesdrop on your private end-to-end encrypted group chats on WhatsApp and Signal messaging apps. Considering protection against three types of attackers—malicious user, network attacker, and malicious server—an end-to-end encryption ... Read More Microsoft Releases Patches for 16 Critical Flaws, Including a Zero-Day If you think that only CPU updates that address this year's major security flaws—Meltdown and Spectre—are the only ones you are advised to grab immediately, there are a handful of major security flaws that you should pay attention to. Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for 2018 to ... Read More Wi-Fi Alliance launches WPA3 protocol with new security features The Wi-Fi Alliance has finally announced the long-awaited next generation of the wireless security protocol—Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA3). WPA3 will replace the existing WPA2—the network security protocol that has been around for at least 15 years and widely used by billions of wireless devices ... Read More Threat Monitoring, Detection and Response Report The ultimate research on threat management. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India