People in the security community often criticize the code behind Cryptocat, an open-source encrypted instant messaging project. Ironically, Cryptocat’s policy of publicly releasing third-party code ...

Cryptocat, a free tool designed to encrypt online chats, has been updated to fix errors that would have allowed an attacker to eavesdrop on chats. The vulnerability resulted from developers using ...

Open source Cryptocat was vulnerable anywhere between seven and 19 months to brute force attacks that put encrypted chats at risk for simple decryption. Cryptocat, an open source encrypted Web-based ...

Nadim Kobeissi, a 21-year-old Lebanese student in Canada, has been diligently working on a simple, secure way for people to chat on the web and keep their conversations away from prying eyes. A ...