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India’s Supreme Court declines Google’s request to block the Competition Commission of India’s antitrust order on Android, leaving in place a $116M fine — India’s competition regulator on Thursday denied allegations by Goog…
Too many default ‘admin1234’ passwords increase risk for industrial systems, research finds
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After the arrest of Italy’s most wanted criminal, what next for the Mafia?
The arrest of a murderous mob boss who had been on the run for decades has prompted relief around Italy – while raising a pressing question: what becomes of the Mafia now?
Iraq stadium stampede leaves two dead, dozens injured
Two people were killed and 80 more injured in a stampede ahead of a soccer match in the Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday. The stampede took place near the Jaza’a Al Nakhla Stadium, where Iraq and Oman were set to play in the Persian Gulf Cup final.
US to send more ‘tank-killer’ fighting vehicles to Ukraine
According to some reports, like one from AP, the U.S. is finalizing a massive package of military aid for Ukraine totaling more than $2.6 billion that includes Stryker armored vehicles and additional Bradley fighting vehicles. AP also quoted the source…
Chinese hackers targeted Iranian government entities for months: Report
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Estonia ups Ukraine military aid to over 1% of GDP
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Report: PM told US national security adviser judicial overhaul will be softened – The Times of Israel
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Security Analysis of Threema
A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema.
We provide an extensive cryptographic analysis of Threema, a Swiss-based encrypted messaging application with more than 10 million users and 7000 corporate customers. We present seven different attacks against the protocol in three different threat models. As one example, we present a cross-protocol attack which breaks authentication in Threema and which exploits the lack of proper key separation between different sub-protocols. As another, we demonstrate a compression-based side-channel attack that recovers users’ long-term private keys through observation of the size of Threema encrypted back-ups. We discuss remediations for our attacks and draw three wider lessons for developers of secure protocols…