Flash Freezing Flash Boys: Per-transaction encryption to fight malicious MEV

Flash Freezing Flash Boys can be implemented with one of two cryptographic protocols, either TDH2 or PVSS. The difference lies in who bears the setup burden and how often the committee structure is ...
Techlicious

WhatsApp Embroiled in Privacy Controversy - What to Use Instead

End-to-end encryption (nicknamed E2EE) has been a major selling point of Meta's WhatsApp messenger since the feature was introduced in 2016. In short, true E2EE ensures that texts, calls, images, and ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...
Forbes

Hackers Bypass Signal, Telegram And WhatsApp Encryption To Read Messages

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated November 25 with a new warning from America’s Cyber ...
Android Authority

New banking malware can stealth-hack your Android phone: Here's how to stay safe (Updated)

A malware, called “Sturnus,” has emerged, and it exploits Android’s accessibility features to spread on your phone even without you noticing. It gains access to your Android after being installed via ...
Bleeping Computer

Multi-threat Android malware Sturnus steals Signal, WhatsApp messages

A new Android banking trojan named Sturnus can capture communication from end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, as well as take complete control of the device.
WKRN-TV

Wrongful death action filed on behalf of AES explosion victim’s 9-year-old

BUCKSNORT, Tenn. (WKRN) — A complaint alleging that Accurate Energetic Systems’ parent company failed to create safe premises and failed to enforce safety rules and regulations was filed in Hickman ...
WTHR

AES Indiana, City of Indianapolis reach agreement in dispute over proposed utility rate hikes

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis officials and AES Indiana have announced an agreement regarding the utility company's highly-contested proposed rate increase. Wednesday night, an Indy DPW spokesperson ...
Tennessean

Lives cut short. What we know about the 16 victims who died in the Bucksnort AES explosion

The 16 victims who died in the Accurate Energetic Systems explosion, leaving the greater Bucksnort community in Hickman and Humphreys Counties devastated, spanned generations, with some nearing the ...
The Conversation

The world’s most sensitive computer code is vulnerable to attack. A new encryption method can help

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...
WHIO

New settlement reduces proposed AES Ohio rate increase to 9%

As reported on News Center 7 at 11:00, the power company has agreed to request a 9% rate increase from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), rather than the initial 14%. “The settlement is ...
WDTN

Settlement reached in AES Ohio rate increase: What to know

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — AES Ohio is raising rates, but a settlement was reached to lower the percentage. AES Ohio announced Wednesday afternoon that they will be not be going forward with a 14 percent ...