If a report from this weekend’s New York Times is to be believed, the popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp may be the next technology company to find itself in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice and its war on crypto. Government officials are reportedly torn on how to proceed with a wiretap that a...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including how Amazon is backtracking on encryption when it comes to their devices, a new set of alleged passcode bypasses for iOS, and the new OS X ransomware KeRanger. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_March_11_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

The Justice Department took off the gloves in its latest volley against Apple and its refusal to comply with a court order to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone. “Apple deliberately raised technological barriers that now stand between a lawful warrant and an iPhone containing evidence related to the terrorist mass murder of 14 Americans,” wrote attorneys...

Users of secure messaging apps such as Pidgin, Adium and others built upon libotr, the Off-the-Record protocol, are being urged to update immediately to current versions after the discovery of a critical flaw that can be used in targeted attacks to expose encrypted communication. The OTR development team yesterday pushed out libotr 4.1.1 which patches...

SAN FRANCISCO—One would think that six of the smartest security people on the planet could come to some sort of collective conclusion on the FBI-Apple debate. But that wasn’t the case today during the annual Cryptographers’ Panel at RSA Conference. The debate over whether Apple should assist the FBI in unlocking an accused terrorist’s iPhone...

A researcher at IOActive believes the U.S. intelligence community has the capability to carry out a delicate hardware hack that could unlock the iPhone 5c at the center of the current FBiOS debate. The attack requires considerable financial resources and acumen with an intrusive attack against the device’s chip in order to extract enough data...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including the iPhone encryption debacle, the glibc Linux vulnerability, and the latest ransomware headlines. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_February_19_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Now that the Apple-FBI story has gone mainstream with rallies supporting CEO Tim Cook scheduled for Apple stores nationwide, presidential candidates weighing in, and a cute hashtag (#FBiOS) affixed, it appears that Apple can technically comply with the judge’s order if must. Security company Trail of Bits founder Dan Guido wrote a detailed explanation of...

Apple CEO Tim Cook late Tuesday defiantly challenged a U.S federal magistrate judge’s order that it help the FBI break into an iPhone 5c belonging to one of the shooters involved in last December’s attack in San Bernardino, Calif. Cook released a letter last night expressing his opposition to the court order and called for...

Mike Mimoso talks with Steve Adegbite, Chief Information Security Officer at E*TRADE, about data integrity and some of the challenges he encounters when it comes to encrypting data and dealing with third-party access to data. [embedded content]