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Cory Doctorow / 11:34 am Thu, Jan 16, 2020

Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks

Now that many online services rely on sending SMSes to your phone to authenticate your identify, thieves and stalkers have created a whole "SIM swap" industry where they defraud your phone company or bribe employees to help them steal your phone account so they can break into all your other accounts. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 12:56 pm Thu, Aug 8, 2019

Whatsapp, Slack, Skype and apps based on popular Electron framework vulnerable to backdoor attacks

This week at B-Sides LV, security researcher Pavel Tsakalidis presented his work on security defects in the Electron framework, a cross-platform development framework that combines Javascript with Node.js: apps built with Electron include Skype, Slack, Whatsapp, Visual Studio Code and others. Read the rest