Apple Says It Has 'Never Received an Order Under Section 215'

In a new report detailing the number and kind of requests for user information it’s gotten from various governments, Apple said it has never received a request for information under Section 215 of the USA PATROT Act and would likely fight one if it ever came. The company also disclosed that it ha...

Code injection

The Safe Search enforcement feature in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA CX Context-Aware Security Software does not properly perform filtering, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended policy restrictions via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCui94622...

CVE-2013-5561

The Safe Search enforcement feature in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA CX Context-Aware Security Software does not properly perform filtering, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended policy restrictions via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCui94622...

CVE-2013-5561: Improper Input Validation

The Safe Search enforcement feature in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA CX Context-Aware Security Software does not properly perform filtering, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended policy restrictions via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCui94622...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2003-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-2003-1: Glance vulnerability

Stuart McLaren discovered that Glance did not properly enforce the 'downloadimage' policy for cached images. An authenticated user could exploit this to obtain sensitive information in an image protected by this setting...

Snapchat Complies with Govt., Sends Images to Law Enforcement

Snapchat cleared up any doubts users may have had about the privacy surrounding images sent back and forth on its photo messaging service when the company confirmed this week that it has shared some images with law enforcement. Snapchat, started in 2011, has gained popularity over the last year –...

Bitcoin Makes Cybercrime Arrests Harder than Ever

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The good news is that cooperation between the various law enforcement agencies in different countries all over the world is at an all time high; the bad news is that cybercriminals have embraced a potent combination of the anonymous online currency Bitcoin and equally anonymous...

Law Enforcement Requests Report: No Skype Data Turned Over

Microsoft’s report on compliance with law enforcement requests for data demonstrates a status quo for the software giant from the last reporting period. While the number of requests from law enforcement dropped worldwide in the first six months of 2013, Microsoft complied with 79 percent of...

NSA Director Alexander Asked About Cell Location Collection

Did we hear the next shoe to drop in the NSA surveillance saga? Yesterday before a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, asked some pointed questions of NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander regarding whether the agency collects cell tower location data in addition t...

Decision in Street View WiFi Case Could Hinder Some Security Research

The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court last week to allow the class-action suit against Google over its collection of WiFi data to continue was welcomed as good news by privacy advocates, but it may have considerable consequences for security researchers who collect such data during legitimate...

NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN, Contract Shows

The U.S. government–particularly the National Security Agency–are often regarded as having advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities. But that doesn’t mean that they’re above bringing in a little outside help when it’s needed. A newly public contract shows that the NSA last year bought a...

Revoyem DirtyDecrypt Ransomware Spreads Internationally

A strain of the Revoyem ransomware, also known as DirtyDecrypt, is aggressively spreading beyond Germany and Great Britain, the first two countries in which it was spotted back in March. A researcher who goes by the handle Kafeine reports on his Malware Don’t Need Coffee website that Revoyem is...

Anonymous Hacker 'Kahuna' sentenced to 3 years in prison for hacking Police websites

An Anonymous Hacker and Online hacktivist who was responsible for hacking into the City of Springfield's website and others Police websites has been sentenced to 3 years in federal prison. John Anthony Borell III, a 22-year-old man from Ohio with the online handle @ItsKahuna started advertising h...

Vodafone Germany Hacked; Attackers accesses banking data of two million customers

Vodafone Germany has been hacked and Personal details of more than two million customers have been compromised, some including banking details. Stole data includes names, addresses, birth dates, and bank account information, but the hacker had no access to credit-card information, passwords, PIN...

Vodafone Germany Hacked; Attackers accesses banking data of two million customers

Vodafone Germany has been hacked and Personal details of more than two million customers have been compromised, some including banking details. Stole data includes names, addresses, birth dates, and bank account information, but the hacker had no access to credit-card information, passwords, PIN...

Warning: Android Bitcoin wallet apps vulnerable to theft

A critical vulnerability in the Android implementation of the Java SecureRandom random number generator was discovered, that leaves Bitcoin digital wallets on the mobile platform vulnerable to theft. Before the announcement was made, users on the forums had noticed over 55 BTC were stolen a few...

Warning: Android Bitcoin wallet apps vulnerable to theft

A critical vulnerability in the Android implementation of the Java SecureRandom random number generator was discovered, that leaves Bitcoin digital wallets on the mobile platform vulnerable to theft. Before the announcement was made, users on the forums had noticed over 55 BTC were stolen a few...

Hackers can steal Windows Phone passwords using Wi-Fi vulnerability

Microsoft has warned that a vulnerability in Windows Phone operating systems could allow hackers to access your login credentials. The vulnerability resides in a Wi-Fi authentication scheme known as PEAP-MS-CHAPv2, which Windows Phones use to access wireless networks protected by version 2 of the...

Israel's Verint Systems get a contract from Indian government for interception program

Soon in December this year, India's new surveillance program - Centralized Monitoring System CMS will be able to analyze all telecommunications and Internet communications in India by the government and its agencies. This means that everything we say or text over the phone, write, post or browse...