Google ordered to hand over sensitive users details to FBI without a warrant

Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday has ordered the Google to hand over customer details to FBI without a warrant. FBI counter terrorism agents began issuing the secret letters, which don't require a judge's approval, after Congress...

Obama Expands Surveillance to Critical Infrastructure

A little-known policy through which the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security offered prosecutorial immunity to companies that helped the U.S. military monitor Internet traffic on the private networks of defense contractors has reportedly been expanded by Executive Order to inclu...

Two Texas Bills Could Shape Mobile Privacy

Two bills introduced in Texas this week could refine mobile privacy in the state and tweak how law enforcement can request sensitive information from cell phones going forward. A press release from the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition TxEPC credits Bryan Hughes, a Republican from the town of...

Browsers Standing Up For User Privacy

Mozilla chief privacy officer Alex Fowler relayed a vivid anecdote last week during RSA Conference 2013 that illustrates the lengths third parties such as advertisers, data brokers and others who traffic in users’ online behavior will go to track you once you land on a website. Fowler said that i...

Court: Government Need Not Justify Warrantless Data Requests

A Virginia appeals court on Friday denied a right-to-access order filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir and computer security researchers Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp. The denial confirms ...

New Verizon Marketing Initiative May Violate Users' Privacy

Verizon has drawn the ire of its customers and privacy advocates this week because a new initiative launched by the telecom company may violate users’ privacy. A new marketing program dubbed Precision Market Insights extracts information about Verizon’s customers on Android and iOS platforms...

tipask 2.0 quiz system to allow the right to exploit-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x001 frontier Tipask quiz system is an open source PHP imitation Baidu know the program. To the Chinese use habit of the design concept, the use of the MVC framework, the system has a fast speed, SEO-friendly, the interface operation is clean and clear and other characteristics. 0x002...

EFF: New Cybersecurity Bill Better, Still Unnecessary

The controversial Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act has been scrapped and replaced by a new bill that online rights advocates still consider unnecessary, but which they also acknowledge is a vast improvement on the slew of other bills that have cropped up in recent months. Thankfully, the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: mozilla-https-everywhere-2.0.3-2.fc16

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to...

Anonymous Knocks CISPA Supporters Offline

The Anonymous Internet collective is claiming responsibility for DDoS attacks that reportedly knocked offline the websites of prominent defense contractor, Boeing, and two trade associations, TechAmerica and USTelecom. The website of TechAmerica remained down Wednesday afternoon. In a phone...

iPad 3 jailbroken on Launch Day by 3 ways

iPad 3 jailbroken on Launch Day by 3 ways The new Apple iPad third iPad, iPad 3 has already been jailbroken in at least three different ways. On the same day that Apple started shipping the new iPad out to consumers, there were reports that at least one hacker had already jailbroken the latest...

Court Ruling: Forced Decryption Violates the Fifth, Sometimes

The Eleventh Circuit of the US Court of Appeals recently handed down a landmark ruling, establishing a precedent under which the contents of an encrypted hard-drive are protected by the Fifth Amendment’s ban on self-incrimination. Briefly, the facts of the case are these: John Doe is suspected of...

Slideshow: Ten Tips For Protecting Your Devices From Seizure By U.S. Customs

VIEW SLIDESHOW Ten Tips For Protecting Your Devices From Seizure By U.S. Customs Fourth amendment be damned. With U.S. Customs agents increasingly interested in the contents of digital devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops, The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued guidance for getting your...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in Twilight Frontier Touhou Hisouten 1.06 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via unknown network traffic...

CVE-2011-3995

Unspecified vulnerability in Twilight Frontier Touhou Hisouten 1.06 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via unknown network traffic...

CVE-2011-3995

CVE-2011-3995 affects Twilight Frontier Touhou Hisouten (Ver 1.06 and earlier). The vulnerability arises in processing network traffic, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (daemon crash). Public sources (JVN/JVNDB and NVD) describe an unspecified DoS condition triggered by netw...

Touhou Hisouten vulnerable to denial-of-service

Overview Touhou Hisouten from Twilight Frontier contains a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability. Touhou Hisouten from Twilight Frontier is a video game which has an online match mode. Touhou Hisouten contains an issue when processing network traffic, which may result in a denial-of-service DoS. Yu...

EFF Argues Forced Decryption Violates Fifth Amendment

Digital civil liberties organization, the Electric Frontier Foundation EFF, appealed to the U.S. District Court of Colorado arguing that encrypted personal data is covered by the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self incrimination. The group submitted a brief of Amicus Curaie .PDF last week o...

The Problem of Issuing Certs For Unqualified Names

The recent attack on Comodo and several of its associated registration authorities has spurred quite a bit of re-examination of the way that the Web’s certificate authority infrastructure works–or doesn’t. One interesting result of this work is that the folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation...

iPhone Guitar Directory Traversal

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits ---------------------------------------------------------------- Software : iPhone Guitar Type of vunlnerability : Directory Traversal Tested On : iPhone 4 IOS 4.0.1 Risk of use : High...