German Missile System Hacked; 'Unexplained' Commands Executed Remotely

Now this is a shockingly dangerous threat when hackers are taking over weapons and missiles. This time I am not talking about weapon systems being hackable, but being HACKED! A German Patriot anti-aircraft missile system stationed on Turkish-Syrian border was reportedly hacked and taken over by a...

Adobe frequency existing 0day vulnerabilities is the Chinese hackers use-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! This year 1 month Adobe is exposure found there is a not yet disclosed the new 0day vulnerability today, the company is also exposed 0day vulnerabilities, being a Chinese hacking group APT3aka UPSuse. It is reported that the 0day vulnerability is a United States security firm Fireeye in the...

Major Carriers AT&T, Comcast Continue to Lag in EFF Privacy Report

While many companies have made strides when it comes to how they handle transparency and government requests post-Snowden, major telecoms such as AT&T and Verizon continue to lag behind. Despite publishing transparency reports within the last year, the two companies scored the lowest on the...

President Urged to Reject Mandatory Backdoors

One-off opposition to calls on Congress from FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers to draft a legal framework that would enable law enforcement to access encrypted communication has been scattered at best. Experts have taken to their own forums to voice opposition to the...

New Evasion Techniques Help AlienSpy RAT Spread Citadel Malware

Hackers have co-opted AlienSpy, a remote access tool, to deliver the Citadel banking Trojan and establish backdoors inside a number of critical infrastructure operations. AlienSpy is a descendent of the Adwind, Unrecom and Frutas Java-based remote access Trojans, according to security company...

TrueCrypt alternatives VeraCrypt CipherShed Step Up

TrueCrypt’s relative clean bill of health last week has now spawned a new focus on existing alternatives to the open source encryption software, namely VeraCrypt and CipherShed. Both open source projects sprung forth from the rubble of the original TrueCrypt developers’ decision in 2014 to abando...

TrueCrypt Audit Cryptanalysis Finds No Backdoors

The results are in from the cryptanalysis phase of the TrueCrypt audit, and they show—nothing. Well, maybe not “nothing,” but certainly no signs of a deliberate backdoor from the NSA or any government entity, fears of which date back to the autumn of 2013, post-Snowden, and ignited talk to have t...

TrueCrypt Audit Cryptanalysis Handed Off to NCC Group

The stagnant TrueCrypt audit stirred to life in the last 24 hours with the announcement that the second phase of the audit, tasked with examining the cryptography behind the open source disk encryption software, will begin shortly. NCC Group’s Cryptography Services has been contracted to do the...

Encryption and Silence Can be Targets' Best Assets

CANCUN–Things are getting real these days for executives, researchers, journalists and others involved in the security community. Targeted surveillance is a reality for many in the community, and researchers and activists are trying now to help them assess and address that threat to their privacy...

China Demands Tech Companies to give them Backdoor and Encryption Keys

A number of western companies are doing big business in China, but now they may have to pay a huge value for to do so. China has introduced strict new banking cyber security regulations on western companies selling technology to Chinese banks. The Chinese government wants backdoors installed in a...

Backdoors Found Leveraging Pastebin

The cut and paste website Pastebin is perhaps best known as a conduit for attackers to share database dumps, stolen data and other code, but now hackers have begun leveraging the site for their actual attacks. Instead of relying on compromised sites to host malware, hackers are using Pastebin to...

Malware Exploits SHELLSHOCK Vulnerability to Hack NAS Devices

The year is about to end, but serious threats like Shellshock is "far from over". Cyber criminals are actively exploiting this critical GNU Bash vulnerability to target those network attached storage devices that are still not patched and ready for exploitation. Security researchers have unearthe...

EFF, Privacy Groups Say NIST Crypto Standards Must be Free From Backdoors

The EFF and a long list of civil and privacy groups have sent a letter to NIST, emphasizing the need for the agency to create “a process for establishing secure and resilient encryption standards, free from back doors or other known vulnerabilities.” The letter comes at a time when the agency is ...

'Every Drupal 7 Site Was Compromised' Unless Patched By Oct. 15

The maintainers of the Drupal content management system are warning users that any site owners who haven’t patched a critical vulnerability in Drupal Core disclosed earlier this month should consider their sites to be compromised. The vulnerability, which became public on Oct. 15, is a SQL...

Tor-маршрутизатор Anonabox

Tor-маршрутизатор Anonabox задолго до завершения кампании на Кикстартере собрал необходимое число заказов. Более того, устройство стоимостью $45 намного перевыполнило «план». Вместо необходимых $7500 на эту минуту собрано уже $215 000 прим.м99.: сегодня собрано уже $604,386. И это только за первы...

Chinese Groups Found Targeting Govt, Military Systems

Two Chinese cyber espionage campaigns are working in tandem in hopes of sniffing out trade secrets from surrounding nations. Researchers from FireEye outlined information about the two attack groups yesterday in advance of a more comprehensive report. One of the groups, Moafree, operates out of t...

WordPress plug-in MailPoet memory vulnerabilities or cause the website to be black-and-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

7 in early May, according to security company Sucuri research report, downloaded over 1 7 0 million WordPress plug-in MailPoet was traced to the presence of security risks, may result in the site more likely to be a hacker hijacked, according to its indicates, is black the website is still growin...

Russian Government Asks Apple to Hand Over iOS and Mac Source Code

Just few days after the announcement that Russian government will pay almost 4 million ruble approximately equal to $111,000 to the one who can devise a reliable technology to decrypt data sent over the Tor, now the government wants something which is really tough. APPLE & SAP, HAND OVER YOUR...

Undocumented iOS Features left Hidden Backdoors Open in 600 Million Apple Devices

A well known iPhone hacker and forensic scientist has unearthed a range of undocumented and hidden functions in Apple iOS mobile operating system that make it possible for a hacker to completely bypass the backup encryption on iOS devices and can steal large amounts of users’ personal data withou...

Vulnerability in WPTouch WordPress Plugin Allows Hackers to Upload PHP backdoors

If you own a mobile version for your Wordpress website using the popular WPtouch plugin, then you may expose to a critical vulnerability that could potentially allow any non-administrative logged-in user to upload malicious PHP files or backdoors to the target server without any admin privileges...