Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking 'Vault 7' Hacking Secrets to WikiLeaks

Joshua Schulte, a former programmer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA, has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools and exploits dubbed Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. The 33-year-old engineer had been charged in June 2018 with unauthorized disclosure of classified...

Heap overflow

A heap out-of-bounds write may heppen during the handling of Huffman tables in the PNG reader. This may lead to data corruption in the heap space. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availablity impact may be considered Low as it's very complex to an attacker control the encoding and positioning of...

Long Story on the Accused CIA Vault 7 Leaker

Long article about Joshua Schulte, the accused leaker of the WikiLeaks Vault 7 and Vault 8 CIA data. Well worth reading...

The Cybersecurity CIA Triad: What You Need to Know as a WordPress Site Owner

One of the core concepts of cybersecurity is known as the CIA Triad. There are three pillars to the triad, with each pillar being designed to address an aspect of securing data. These three pillars are Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. The Confidentiality pillar is intended to prevent...

CIA Wants Russians to Share Secret Info with the Agency via its Darknet Site

By Waqas CIA’s darknet website will be accessible to Russians through the Tor internet browser. The Central Intelligence Agency CIA… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CIA Wants Russians to Share Secret Info with the Agency via its Darknet Site...

Secret CIA Data Collection Program

Two US senators claim that the CIA has been running an unregulated -- and almost certainly illegal -- mass surveillance program on Americans. The senators statement. Some declassified information from the CIA. No real details yet...

The CIA Has Secretly Run a ‘Bulk Collection’ Program

Plus: Vulnerability fixes, the return of EARN IT, and more of the week’s top security news...

Even the CIA and NSA Use Ad Blockers to Stay Safe Online

Plus: The ransomware scourge continues, a massive botnet gets wounded, and more of the week’s top security news...

Kaspersky spots CIA malware with backdoor capabilities

By Waqas Dubbed Purple Lambert by Kaspersky; the malware passively listens to network traffic and search for a "magic packet." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kaspersky spots CIA malware with backdoor capabilities...

Man Arrested for AWS Bomb Plot

A Texas man has been charged with plotting a bombing of Amazon Web Services in a quest to allegedly “kill off the internet.” Seth Aaron Pendley was arrested in Ft. Worth after allegedly attempting to get an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in a sting. The feds were alerted to...

Aliens and UFOs: A Final Frontier for Social Engineers

Buried deep within the most recent round of COVID-19 stimulus legislation was a little provision with potentially explosive consequences: The Pentagon has six months to release a full report on what they know about the existence of what they term Unidentified Aerial Phenomena UAP — or UFOs to the...

Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG

Previously I have written about the Swedish-owned Swiss-based cryptographic hardware company: Crypto AG. It was a CIA-owned Cold War operation for decades. Today it is called Crypto International, still based in Switzerland but owned by a Swedish company. Its back in the news: Late last week,...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : php (EulerOS-SA-2020-1747)

According to the versions of the php packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - When PHP EXIF extension is parsing EXIF information from an image, e.g. via exifreaddata function, in PHP versions 7.1.x below 7.1.3...

News Wrap: Malicious Chrome Extensions Removed, CIA 'Woefully Lax' Security Policies Bashed

For the week ended June 19, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell Welch, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the top cybersecurity stories. This week’s top news stories include: Google removing 106 Chrome browser extensions from its Chrome Web Store in response to a report that they were being us...

A Report Blames ‘CIA Failures’ for the Agency's Worst Hack

A series of WikiLeaks disclosures that exposed a trove of the intelligence organization's secrets could have been avoided, a task force found...

This Week in Security News: Intel Says ‘Tiger Lake’ Will Drown Control-Flow Malware and New Phishing Campaign Targeting Office 365 Exploits Brand Names

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how the next generation of Intel mobile processors will include malware protection built into the chip. Also, read about a new...

Theft of CIA's "Vault Seven" Hacking Tools Due to Its Own Lousy Security

The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered a year after it happened, when the information was published by WikiLeaks, in March 2017. The anti-secrecy group dubbed the release...

When Security Takes a Backseat to Productivity

"We must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change." -CIA's Wikileaks Task Force. So ends a key section of a report the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led ...

CIA failed to protect its sophisticated hacking tools from hackers

By Sudais Asif CIA report reveals a lack of security measures in its operations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CIA failed to protect its sophisticated hacking tools from hackers...

Theft of CIA's 'Vault 7' Secrets Tied to 'Woefully Lax" Security

A just-released report on the 2016 Central Intelligence Agency CIA data breach, which led to the Vault 7 document dump on WikiLeaks, blames “woefully lax” security by the nation’s top spy agency. The conclusions were part of an internal 2017 Department of Justice DoJ report on the CIA breach. On...