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PYMNTS.com
November 17, 2017
“This is not the typical technical method in which the Chinese government censors something,” Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, told the New York Times in an interview. He said his company's automated monitors started detecting disruptions of WhatsApp in China during theÃÂ ...
Inverse
September 27, 2017
Speaking with the Times, applied cryptographer and digital censorship researcher Nadim Kobeissi definitively noted: “This is not the typical technical method in which the Chinese government censors something.” This level of sophisticated blocking leaves Chinese citizens looking to share messagesÃÂ ...
Engadget
September 25, 2017
Symbolic Software's Nadim Kobeissi told The Verge that it likely took a while for the Chinese government to figure out how to configure its infamous firewall to detect and block the heavily encrypted protocol WhatsApp uses to send text messages. Since the country's efforts paid off, that could mean that itÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 18, 2017
“According to the analysis that we ran today on WhatsApp's infrastructure, it seems that the Great Firewall is imposing censorship that selectively targets WhatsApp functionalities,” said Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, a cryptography research start-up. The actions by theÃÂ ...
WIRED
March 16, 2017
"Unfortunately, this does highlight a weakness specific to web applications," says Nadim Kobeissi, the founder of the applied cryptography consultancy Symbolic Software. Kobeissi has in the past lauded the ease of use of web-based crypto apps. But he concedes that Check Point's findings are a strongÃÂ ...
The Verge
January 11, 2017
On Twitter, longtime Telegram critic Nadim Kobeissi laid out a new attack on the protocol, which he claims would allow a hostile party to reset Telegram's forward secrecy protections. The resulting attack would require an attacker to compromise a Telegram server, so it's not a full break of the underlyingÃÂ ...
The Verge
February 10, 2013
Nadim Kobeissi, developer of the secure chat client Cryptocat, claims that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may have installed a backdoor on his computer to monitor his activities, prompting him to migrate the service's network and reset its security keys. While Kobeissi pokes fun atÃÂ ...
Wired News
July 27, 2012
Twenty-one-year-old college student Nadim Kobeissi is from Canada, Lebanon and the internet. He is the creator of Cryptocat, a project "to combine my love of cryptography and cats," he explained to an overflowing audience of hackers at the HOPE conference on Saturday, July 14. The site, crypto.cat, hasÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 17, 2012
Nadim Kobeissi, master hacker, summoned for interrogation multiple times as a teenager by cyber-intelligence authorities in Beirut, Lebanon, sat in the backyard of a restaurant in Brooklyn, astounded that he was being treated to lunch. “Please,” he protested, “you shouldn't pay for my omelet.” Mr. KobeissiÃÂ ...
STL.News
December 31, 1999
Now, messages, too, are completely blocked, according to Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, a Paris-based research firm that also monitors digital censorship in China. She reported her findings recently to The Verge. “Essentially, it seems that what we initially monitored asÃÂ ...
bellingcat
October 28, 2017
Our prior publication also failed to acknowledge immensely valuable input from a number of colleagues, including Nadim Kobeissi's feedback ...
Madison.com
September 28, 2017
Speaking to The Verge, Symbolic Software applied cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi stated that the Chinese government likely upgraded its ...
Inverse
September 27, 2017
Chinese censors on Monday blocked the mega-popular, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp from being accessed by the country's ...
PYMNTS.com
September 26, 2017
“This is not the typical technical method in which the Chinese government censors something,” Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at ...
PYMNTS.com
September 26, 2017
“This is not the typical technical method in which the Chinese government censors something,” Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at ...
Engadget
September 25, 2017
Symbolic Software's Nadim Kobeissi told The Verge that it likely took a while for the Chinese government to figure out how to configure its infamous firewall to detect and block the heavily encrypted protocol WhatsApp uses to send text messages. Since the country's efforts paid off, that could mean that itÃÂ ...
IDG Now!
September 25, 2017
... com o WhatsApp na China, como relata o especialista em criptografia da Symbolic Software, Nadim Kobeissi, em entrevista ao The Verge.
New York Times
September 25, 2017
WhatsApp now appears to have been broadly disrupted in China, even for text messages, Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at ...
Digit
September 12, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, a Paris-based research start-up says his firm noticed disruptions in the service ...
New York Times
July 18, 2017
... imposing censorship that selectively targets WhatsApp functionalities,” said Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, ...
Inc.com
June 1, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi , who created the encrypted messaging app Cryptocat, called it "the kind of irresponsible, brain-dead security policy that harms ...
WIRED
March 16, 2017
"Unfortunately, this does highlight a weakness specific to web applications," says Nadim Kobeissi, the founder of the applied cryptography ...
The Verge
January 11, 2017
On Twitter, longtime Telegram critic Nadim Kobeissi laid out a new attack on the protocol, which he claims would allow a hostile party to reset ...
WIRED
November 28, 2016
“You're constantly generating new keys for new messages,” says Nadim Kobeissi, the creator of Cryptocat, one instant messaging app that was ...
The Verge
February 10, 2013
Nadim Kobeissi, developer of the secure chat client Cryptocat, claims that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may have installed a backdoor on his computer to monitor his activities, prompting him to migrate the service's network and reset its security keys. While Kobeissi pokes fun atÃÂ ...
Wired News
July 27, 2012
Nadim Kobeissi, creator of Cryptocat, spoke in mid-July at the HOPE conference, held at New York's Hotel Pennsylvania every two years.
Naked Security
June 8, 2012
The developer, Nadim Kobeissi of Montreal, was detained at the US-Canada border on Wednesday, he tweeted. PrivacySOS has posted the ...
New York Times
April 17, 2012
Nadim Kobeissi, 21, created the encrypted chat program Cryptocat. He met other code writers with similar goals in New York this week.
PYMNTS.com
December 31, 1999
“This is not the typical technical method in which the Chinese government censors something,” Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, ...
PYMNTS.com
December 31, 1999
“This is not the typical technical method in which the Chinese government censors something,” Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at ...
China Digital Times
December 31, 1999
WhatsApp now appears to have been broadly disrupted in China, even for text messages, Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at ...
Research Market 24
July 24, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi from Symbolic software said, “We acutely tested the substructure of WhatsApp and came to the conclusion that Great Firewall was the real culpritÃÂ ...
WDEF News 12
July 20, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi, a cryptography researcher based in Paris who has been investigating the WhatsApp disruption, said he believed The GreatÃÂ ...
Gizmodo India
July 18, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, tells the paper, "according to the analysis that we ran today on WhatsApp'sÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
July 18, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi, a cryptography researcher based in Paris who has been investigating the WhatsApp disruption, said he believed The Great Firewall was onlyÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
July 18, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi, a cryptography researcher based in Paris who has been investigating the WhatsApp disruption, said he believed The Great Firewall was onlyÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 18, 2017
... imposing censorship that selectively targets WhatsApp functionalities,” said Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software,ÃÂ ...
The Verge
July 10, 2017
In another case reported by Symbolic Software founder Nadim Kobeissi, a maliciously registered device let attackers break through a target'sÃÂ ...
Inc.com
June 1, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi , who created the encrypted messaging app Cryptocat, called it "the kind of irresponsible, brain-dead security policy that harmsÃÂ ...
WIRED
March 16, 2017
"Unfortunately, this does highlight a weakness specific to web applications," says Nadim Kobeissi, the founder of the applied cryptographyÃÂ ...
The Verge
January 11, 2017
On Twitter, longtime Telegram critic Nadim Kobeissi laid out a new attack on the protocol, which he claims would allow a hostile party to resetÃÂ ...
WIRED
November 28, 2016
“You're constantly generating new keys for new messages,” says Nadim Kobeissi, the creator of Cryptocat, one instant messaging app that wasÃÂ ...
New York Times
November 12, 2016
Nadim Kobeissi, a Lebanese immigrant living in France, said he feared personal ramifications from the election of Mr. Trump. “My partner and I,ÃÂ ...
The Verge
February 10, 2013
Nadim Kobeissi, developer of the secure chat client Cryptocat, claims that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may haveÃÂ ...
Wired News
July 27, 2012
Nadim Kobeissi, creator of Cryptocat, spoke in mid-July at the HOPE conference, held at New York's Hotel Pennsylvania every two years.
New York Times
April 17, 2012
Nadim Kobeissi, master hacker, summoned for interrogation multiple times as a teenager by cyber-intelligence authorities in Beirut, Lebanon,ÃÂ ...
Top Tech News
January 24, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi, a PhD candidate at France's Inria Prosecco lab, said on Twitter this morning that he has verified that vulnerability.
Top Tech News
January 15, 2017
Nadim Kobeissi, a PhD candidate at France's Inria Prosecco lab, said on Twitter this morning that he has verified that vulnerability.
BleepingComputer
January 13, 2017
Frederic Jacobs, one of the cryptographic gurus working for Open Whisper Systems (Signal app); David Wind, a bug hunter and cryptographer; Martin Kleppmann, a former LinkedIn engineer; Zack Whittaker, ZDNet infosec reporter; Nadim Kobeissi,ÃÂ ...
Engadget
January 13, 2017
Separately, cryptography expert Nadim Kobeissi, who has been a perrenial critic of Telegram, detailed another attack vector: a vulnerability in the way the service deals with keys.
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