Cyberculture agenda: WhatsApp’s End-to-End Encryption…

WhatsApp Launches End-to-End Encryption All Facebook by David Cohen WhatsApp upped its security game in a big way with this week’sannouncement that it now provides full end-to-end encryption. Co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton announced the news in a blog post, saying that users do not need to take any actions to activate end-to-end encryption, as it is now the … Read more

A nice piece: “The Paris attackers hit the city’s young, progressive core…#ParisAttacks

The Paris attackers hit the city’s young, progressive core fusion.net – Manu Saadia – Nov 13, 6:11 PM Tonight, the golden triangle of Parisian youth culture is covered in blood. We do not yet know the full extent of the terrorist attacks in Paris that started Friday night, or even how many attacks there were. … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Story of how Naoki Hiroshima lost his Twitter handle, @N

Social Engineering Always Wins: An Epic Hack, Revisited   Naoki Hiroshima’s gripping account of how he was forced to give up his single character Twitter handle, @N, to an attacker re-exposes a fundamentally unaddressed issue of how easily companies’ customer support systems can be tricked into handing out password resets. PayPal denies providing payment information … Read more