University of Birmingham Tag

12 Dec “Certificate Pinning” Security Flaw in Banking Apps a Hacking Risk

Posted at 11:07h in Foreign, News by Disini & Disini Law Office

Last week, University of Birmingham researchers identified several security flaws in a number of mobile banking apps that could have put millions of users at risk of hacking. The researchers said that a technology called “certificate pinning”, used in apps of banks such as HSBC,...

28 Sep Scientists Create Solution to End-to-End Encryption Problem

Posted at 10:58h in Foreign, News by Disini & Disini Law Office

Computer scientists from the universities of Luxembourg, Birmingham, and Oxford have come up with a solution for a privacy gap in end-to-end encryption. Dr. Jiangshan Yu, Professor Mark Ryan, and Professor Cas Cremers revealed that they have come up with DECIM (Detecting Endpoint Compromise in Messaging)...