Security Vulnerability of the day: Skype

Security researchers discovered several serious security and privacy flaws in Skype that even a ‘high school-age hacker’ could use to track not only users’ locations over time but also their P2P file-sharing activity. The security team warned that this information could easily be used for “stalking, blackmail or fraud.”

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For example, they tracked one vacationing volunteer from New York to Chicago, back to New York, and then to his home in France. “If we had followed the mobility of the Facebook friends of this user as well, we likely would have determined who he was visiting and when.”

Better call Saul! … but not via Skype.

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Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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