Digital First Aid Kit Guide For Activists, First-Responders

A coalition of worldwide non-governmental organizations has compiled a guide for individuals at risk for cyberattacks as well as for anyone charged with helping activists, human rights organizations and journalists identify and respond to threats. The Digital First Aid Kit is available on Github...

FBI Arrests 100 Hackers linked to Blackshades Malware

On Friday, we reported about the large-scale operation of International raids launched by the FBI and other law enforcement officials in countries around the world to arrest the targeted customers of a popular Remote Administration Tool RAT called ‘Blackshades,’ which is designed to take over the...

Tor Instant Messaging Bundle - A New Anonymous and Encrypted messaging Software

We are living in an era of Mass Surveillance, conducted by the Government Agencies like the NSA and GCHQ, and we ourselves gave them an open invitation as we all have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go i.e. Smartphone. Encryption and security are more important today than any...

Internet Bug Bounty: Flash double free vulnerability leads to code execution

This bug was reported directly to Adobe and got assigned CVE-2014-0502. http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html This one was actively and it still is exploited since February 12th in watering hole campaigns against nonprofit research institutions and human right...

Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

On the 10th Anniversary of Social networking website Facebook, the hacker group 'Syrian Electronic Army' claimed that they managed to hack into the administrator account of the Facebook's Domain Registrar - MarkMonitor. The hacking group changed the Facebook Domain's contact information to a Syri...

XtremeRAT Malware Used in Targeted Attacks Against Israel

Espionage malware used in attacks against Israel, as well as Syrian activists, in the last 18 months has been linked to a new attack against Israel’s Civil Administration, the country’s governing body in the West Bank. Researchers at Seculert reported today that samples of XtremeRAT, a...

New Attacks Target Syrian Activists

A new set of malware campaigns targeted at Syrian activists, journalists and NGOs has emerged, and security researchers say that the attackers are employing a variety of tactics, including a new OS X Trojan that could be part of a “false flag” operation. The details of the new round of attacks on...

Crypto Party, Anti-Surveillance Rally in DC

WASHINGTON — Saturday marked the 12-year anniversary of the initial signing of the controversial USA PATRIOT Act, the anti-terrorism bill signed into law shortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, sections of which have allegedly given federal law enforcement the authority to...

Russian President rejected US demand to extradite Edward Snowden

Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to extradite National Security Agency Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Tuesday, says since Snowden has not committed a crime in that country, the government will not extradite him back. Putin said, "Mr. Snowden is a free man," Snowden di...

Secret warrant forced Google to hand over WikiLeaks Volunteer’s Data to Feds

According to the court records released this week on web, The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteers in Iceland. Smari McCarthy and Herbert Snorrason, are the two Icelandic freedom of information...

Facebook temporarily blocked access from TOR, but not Intentionally

Tor has become a tool of free expression in parts of the world where citizens can not speak freely against their government. On Tuesday, a number of users have noticed that Facebook is blocking connections from the Tor network. Tor is a free tool that keeps Web browsing sessions private and...

Facebook temporarily blocked access from TOR, but not Intentionally

Tor has become a tool of free expression in parts of the world where citizens can not speak freely against their government. On Tuesday, a number of users have noticed that Facebook is blocking connections from the Tor network. Tor is a free tool that keeps Web browsing sessions private and...

LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor attack, could face 10 years in prison

A computer hacker linked to the group known as Anonymous and LulzSec pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking into Stratfor, a global intelligence company. Hammond, 28, was arrested last March and charged with hacking into the computers of Stratfor. Jeremy Hammond and other members of AntiSec, stole...

LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor attack, could face 10 years in prison

A computer hacker linked to the group known as Anonymous and LulzSec pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking into Stratfor, a global intelligence company. Hammond, 28, was arrested last March and charged with hacking into the computers of Stratfor. Jeremy Hammond and other members of AntiSec, stole...

Syrian Internet Connection Cut Off Again

For the second time this month, the civil war-torn nation of Syria lost its connection to the Internet this morning before emerging from the Internet blackout several hours later, according to information provided by Arbor Networks. Google’s Transparency report webpage revealed that at around 2:5...

Rogue Twitter Account Used in Targeted Attacks Against Free Tibet Supporters

Attackers targeting Tibetan freedom supporters aren’t holding back when it comes to using all avenues to infect activists with malware. In a relatively short amount of time, we’ve seen Tibetan nationals in China and in exile around the world targeted with spear phishing campaigns, watering hole...

Malware Arsenal Targets Tibetan Activists

Tibetan activists in China as well as those living in exile around the world are being targeted by dangerous malware that not only steals data from infected computers, but also has graduated to reporting location data from mobile devices for surveillance purposes. In addition, a grassroots campai...

Researchers Uncover Targeted Attack Campaign Using Android Malware

Android attacks have become all the rage in the last year or two, and targeted attacks against political activists in Tibet, Iran and other countries also have been bubbling up to the surface more and more often lately. Now those two trends have converged with the discovery of a targeted attack...

New Attacks Leverage Adobe Sandbox Bypass Against Uyghur Activists

Attackers with a control infrastructure based in China are leveraging the same vulnerability exploited by Miniduke to attack Uyghur and Tibetan activists with new exploits. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab and AlienVault discovered a spear phishing campaign targeting non-governmental activists with P...

Yahoo Makes SSL Option Available For Mail Users

Following a trail cut several years ago by Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has now given users of its webmail service the option of using an SSL connection for their sessions. The HTTPS option is not enabled by default, but users can turn it on with a couple of clicks. Yahoo has been slow to make the...