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The co-founder of WhatsApp becomes the director of Signal, its safer alternative – CVBJ

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The helm at the forefront of Signal changes hands. The application is not as popular as WhatsApp in Spain, but it is known to rival it in terms of security and privacy, even the European Union uses Signal. Precisely, the co-founder of WhatsApp is the one who assumes the position in place of Moxie marlinspike, the one who has been CEO of Signal until now.

This transfer is not entirely surprising, since Brian Acton, one of the creators of WhatsApp, has been on the board of directors of the Signal Foundation for years and has been very critical of the evolution of WhatsApp since leaving the company. Since 2018, Acton encourages on its social networks to delete Facebook (now Meta), current owner of WhatsApp.

However, from the statement issued by Signal it appears that Acton will not hold the position permanentlyRather, it will serve as a bridge until the company finds a more suitable candidate for this task. Moxie Marlinspike encourages interested parties to submit their applications for the position.

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“I will continue to remain on the Signal board, committed to helping to manifest Signal’s mission from that role, and will transition as CEO over the next month to focus on finding candidates,” states Marlinspike on his website blog. by Signal.

Marlinspike has been a tireless advocate for internet security and privacy, flag that flies in Signal as the most secure messaging application against all types of attacks or espionage, whether from cybercrime groups or governments. It has even promoted where the company’s engineers have hacked a police tool used to enter mobiles in order to demonstrate that this technology was not reliable.

Now this task falls to Brian Acton, who in an interview for Forbes in 2018 showed sorry for selling WhatsApp to Facebook years agowith which he and his partner, Jan Koum, received millions of dollars. “I sold the privacy of my users (…) I made a choice and I compromised. I live with it every day,” he said at the time.

“Brian Acton, who is also on the board of the Signal Foundation, volunteered to serve as interim CEO during the search period,” Marlinspike says the transfer of…

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This is how ‘smishing’ works, the fraud that uses SMS to infect mobile phones – CVBJ

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12/01/2021

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Check Point Research has warned of the campaigns of ‘smishing‘, a series of cyberattacks that They use texting and social engineering to mislead users, infect their computers and steal sensitive data and money.

SMS from ‘phishing‘, that is, the text messages that simulate their sending from a known body or brand, include a supposed notification for the user, such as a complaint, and accompany it with a link for your follow-up.

By clicking on the link, the user is urged to download a malicious Android application, and to enter sensitive data, such as the bank card. Once installed, the ‘app’ steal all SMS from the infected device, allowing criminals to use the credit or debit card and access the SMS that are sent as part of the two-factor authentication.

The malicious application checks the command and control (C&C) server controlled by cybercriminals for new commands to be executed periodically. In addition, to maintain persistence, after sending the card information, the application can hide its icon, making it difficult to control and uninstall.

This methodology described by the Check Point researchers has been detected in the ‘smishing’ campaigns directed against Iranian citizens, who supplant the Government of the country, and which has led to the theft of billions of Iranian rials from victims, with estimated figures of between 1,000 and 2,000 dollars per user. In addition, third parties can access stolen data ‘online’ since it has not been protected.

The company indicates in a statement that cybercriminals are taking advantage of a technique known as ‘smishing’ botnets, in which compromised devices are used as ‘bots’ to spread SMS of ‘phishing’ similar to other potential victims.

Attackers use various Telegram channels to promote and sell their tools for between $ 50 and $ 150, providing a complete ‘Android campaign kit’, including the malicious app and underlying infrastructure, with a dashboard that can be easily managed by anyone via a simple Telegram bot interface.

“The campaign takes advantage of social engineering and causes significant economic losses, despite the low…

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smartphones with power, autonomy and creativity – CVBJ

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New range made up of the edge 20 pro, edge 20 and edge 20 lite models.

According to Motorola, this new edge family goes beyond the company’s previous generation of smartphones in almost every category, bringing more powerful processors, a main camera with larger pixels and Motorola’s first periscope-style zoom, with up to 50x. . In addition, the screen refresh rate is higher, the battery charge is faster, and the number of experiences on the Ready For software platform has been expanded.

Cameras

Across the Motorola edge 20 family, the company has focused on improving camera quality. The Motorola edge 20 pro offers a new 108MP main camera with 1 / 1.5 ″ optical format. It features Ultra Pixel technology: every nine pixels are combined into one large ultrapixel, improving light sensitivity by nine times and resulting in better low-light performance. It also offers an ultra-wide-angle lens with built-in Macro Vision, allowing you to capture four times more of the scene in the frame to capture more of the surroundings and fit more people in each shot. Macro Vision also allows you to get up to five times closer to your photographed subject for extreme close-ups, up to 3 cm away, to capture photos of food, crafts, nature and more.

Telescope camera

The third camera represents Motorola’s first periscope-type telephoto lens, a rarely seen feature in this class of smartphones, which bends light 90 degrees for clarity greater than 5x away. In addition, the Super Zoom 50x allows you to capture details from incredible distances. And as a video feature, the Motorola edge 20 pro can record in incredible 8K resolution.

Screens

The Motorola edge 20 pro incorporates a large 6.7 ″ Max Vision display with OLED technology for a crystal clear viewing experience. This display offers 10-bit color, reaching the DCI-P3 color space and meeting HDR10 + standards. This means that users can see more than a billion shades of colors, which are reproduced vividly, brightly and realistically on the screen. For the first time, a 144Hz refresh rate is offered, the highest refresh rate available on a conventional smartphone. When it comes to dynamic, high-motion content such as…

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