November 17, 2017

Skype faces fine after refusing to allow eavesdropping

The trouble began when authorities came knocking, wanting to listen in on organised crime

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September 07, 2017

News in brief: hacker fail; voting fail; Twitter fail

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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June 21, 2017

News in brief: WannaCry knocks out Honda plant; Skype hit by global outage; NSA shares tools on GitHub

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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December 15, 2016

Regulators crack down on Skype and WhatsApp over privacy

OTT messaging services could soon fall under the same privacy regulations as telephone calls and SMS text messages

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October 20, 2016

Snoops can tell what you type while you Skype, researchers find

Researchers developed an acoustic eavesdropping attack scenario using VoIP, hitting an accuracy rate of up to 91.7%.

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June 04, 2015

Skype can no longer be crashed with these eight characters

Bad week for messaging apps, with Skype choking on http://: and iOS on... well, it hasn't been fixed, so let's just say "some characters!"

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January 15, 2015

Sextortionist who preyed on teens via Facebook and Skype gets 53 months

Andrew McBride, who preyed on victims as young as 13, has been sentenced to 53 months in jail and three years of monitoring after that.

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