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How ISIS could use video games, messaging apps to evade surveillance

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A new report sheds some light on how terrorists, particularly those with the Islamic State (ISIS) involved in last week’s deadly attacks in Paris, manage to communicate in an age when most communications tools are susceptible to government surveillance.

The most interesting is how the group can use video game platforms, specifically Sony’s PlayStation 4, to relay messages between members. A Buzzfeed News report quoted Belgium’s federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon, who had explained at an event prior to the Paris attacks that communications on a device like the PlayStation 4 could be more difficult to monitor than those on encrypted messaging apps, such as WhatsApp.

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Tor Messenger: Anonymous instant messaging beta released

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Anyone who values their privacy will be aware of Tor, the distributed “onion routing” network that makes it possible to avoid surveillance (though it is thought that even the sophistication of the Tor system may not be enough to avoid NSA scrutiny if they really want to get the login for your Ashley Madison account). 

While Tor is great for hiding your browsing until now, it hasn’t been able to anonymize instant messaging. That changed yesterday with the beta release of the open source Tor Messenger. Available for Windows, Linux, and OS X the Tor Messenger:

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Popular messaging apps fail EFF’s security review

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Some of the most widely used messaging apps in the world, including Google Hangouts, Facebook chat, Yahoo Messenger and Snapchat, flunked a best-practices security test by advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

The organization evaluated 39 messaging products based on seven criteria it believes such tools should meet in order to ensure the privacy and security of digital communications.

The reviewed products included mobile texting apps, instant messaging clients, voice and video calling software and email services. The results were published Tuesday under the form of a Secure Messaging Scorecard.

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Le botnet per Android usano Google Messaging – ictBusiness

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Le botnet per Android usano Google Messaging
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Secondo gli esperti di sicurezza russi il terzo trimestre è stato "senza dubbio all'insegna delle botnet mobili", e i criminali informatici hanno cercato di migliorare il modo in cui gestiscono le reti di dispositivi Android infetti. L'ultima arma nell …

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