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Internet Explorer has a security flaw when copying masked passwords on Windows Phone (Update)

By Daniel Rubino, Tuesday, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:56 pm EDT

Information security is always one of those topics that is hard to report on, especially with the sheer number of devices available today. The problem lies in what is dangerous, what is bad, or what is no-big-deal. Frankly, opinions vary on the risks and threats involved.

One neat feature in Windows Phone is the ability to select text and hit the Search key. The Windows Phone OS copies the information over to Bing (or Cortana), and it lets you search without having to copy/paste the selection. It is super useful and certainly convenient for speedy searches.

However, there does seem to be one instance where this feature works where it should not: password fields.

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Gemalto denies 'massive theft' of SIM card encryption keys by NSA and GCHQ [updated]

By Harish Jonnalagadda, Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:41 am EST

Update: A new report in The Intercept claims that Gemalto is drastically downplaying the effects of this attack. In the report, several security researchers came to the conclusion that "the company made sweeping, overly-optimistic statements about the security and stability of Gemalto's networks, and dramatically underplayed the significance of the NSA-GCHQ targeting of the company and its employees."

Original story: Digital security vendor Gemalto revealed its findings today following last week's report of an incursion by the NSA and the GCHQ into the vendor's SIM card encryption keys. While Gemalto noted that an operation by NSA and GCHQ "probably happened" in 2010 and 2011, the intrusion could not have resulted in a "massive theft" of SIM card encryption keys as the breach affected the company's office network and not its secure networks.

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The NSA and GCHQ gave themselves a direct line into your phone

By Dan Thorp-Lancaster, Thursday, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:09 pm EST

According to new documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA and its UK counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), hacked into the computers of Gemalto, a company that manufactures SIM cards for a large number of carriers around the world. In doing so, the intelligence agencies acquired encryption keys that would allow them to intercept communications from customers of all four major U.S. carriers, along with 450 others around the world.

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Google security researcher outs another exploit in Windows 8.1 and 7

By Dan Thorp-Lancaster, Friday, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:32 pm EST

After having outed a vulnerability in Windows a few weeks ago, Google is at it again. This time a Google security researcher detailed another vulnerability in in both Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. Similar to the exploit that Google previously detailed, this vulnerability could allow a user to impersonate another ID, allowing encryption and decryption of data he or she otherwise wouldn't have access to.

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Unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1 gets published

By Joseph Keller, Wednesday, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:43 pm EST

An unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1 has been disclosed on Google Security Research. The issue was subject to a 90-day automatic disclosure policy, meaning the existence of the vulnerability is published after 90 days without a broadly available patch for the issue. The issue allows for privilege elevation in ahcache.sys/NtApphelpCacheControl.

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T-Mobile quietly upgrades 2G network security

By Joseph Keller, Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:17 am EDT

T-Mobile US is quietly upgrading the security of their older 2G network, moving to more advanced encryption that prevents eavedropping. The new, more secure network has already been deployed in at least three locations, New York, Washington, and Boulder, Colorado. The T-Mobile 2G network has previously relied on older A5/1 encryption, with the new security standard known as A5/3.

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