Godzilla Hacker Takes Down Several Pakistani Government Websites

While the rest of the world was engaged in cyber security and privacy, an Indian patriotic hacker targeted 43 major Pakistani Government official websites, including ‘President of Pakistan’, ‘Government of Pakistan’, 'Ministry of Defence’, and whole Ministry of Pakistan. Indian hacker Godzilla...

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...

Canada NRC Hit by Apparent Chinese Cyber Attack

One of Canada’s premier research and technology organizations was hit with a cyber-attack recently that forced the cooperative offline; the attack – which appears to be Chinese in origin – was so serious the organization is being forced to rebuild its entire system. The National Research Council ...

The Federal Government in Financial Services' Cybersecurity

Its no secret that the internet has changed the way we do business in nearly every industry. On the other hand, the dangers of limited cyber regulations are quickly becoming a focus for the government due to the frequency and impact of data breaches. Its becoming apparent that convenience comes a...

Leahy Introduces Bill to End Bulk Call Record Collection

Sen. Patrick Leahy has introduced an updated, tougher version of the USA FREEDOM Act that would end the bulk collection of data under Section 215 of FISA and also would require the appointment of a panel of special legal advocates who would represent the interests of individual privacy and civil...

Instagram Mobile App Issue Leads to Account Hijacking Vulnerability

In the era of Government surveillance, ensuring the security and safety of our private communications regardless of platform – email, VOIP, message, even cookies stored – should be the top priority of the Internet industry. Some industry came together to offer Encryption as the protection against...

Russian Government Offers $111,000 For Cracking Tor Anonymity Network

The Russian government is offering almost 4 million ruble which is approximately equal to $111,000 to the one who can devise a reliable technology to decrypt data sent over the Tor, an encrypted anonymizing network used by online users in order to hide their activities from law enforcement,...

Microsoft Exec Says Company Has Never Been Asked to Backdoor a Product

One of Microsoft’s top security executives said the company has never been asked by the United States government to build a backdoor into any of its products, and if the company was asked, it would fight the order in the courts. Since the Edward Snowden revelations began last summer, there have...

Research Shows Increase in Internet Filtering and Usage of FireChat App in Iraq

Researchers at Citizen Lab have taken a close look at the extent of Internet filtering in Iraq, as well as the security of a popular offline chat app used there, and found an increase in the number of services blocked by the government and identified serious privacy and security problems with the...

DNI, Justice Department Deny Targeting Americans for Surveillance Based on Religion, Politics

The Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice have denied a report based on leaked documents from Edward Snowden that United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies conduct surveillance of Americans based on their ethnicity, religious affiliation or political stance...

Google catches Indian Government Agency with Fake Digital Certificates

Google has identified and blocked unauthorized digital certificates for a number of its domains issued by the National Informatics Centre NIC of India, a unit of India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. National Informatics Center NIC holds several intermediate Certification...

New Verizon Transparency Report Shows Large Government Appetite for Location, Content Data

Verizon said in a new transparency report that though the number of some kinds of orders dropped–including wiretap orders and warrants–others rose, including general orders and pen register and trap and trace orders, and the company received nearly 150,000 total orders in the first half of 2014...

Mastery OA 2011-2013 pass to kill GETSHELL-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Statement: This program applied to a lot of government agencies, educational institutions, as well as the large stream companiesChina Telecom, etc.! Please after reading this don't try to for any use of the program website destruction attack invasion, etc... I made this post purely technical...

Miniduke APT Campaigh Returns with New Targets, Hacking Tools

The Miniduke advanced persistent threat APT campaign uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky Lab and CrySys Lab in February 2013 is back after a year-long hiatus in which attacks abated almost entirely. While the initial Miniduke operations primarily targeted government organizations in Europe, thi...

EFF Sues NSA, ODNI Over Zero-Day Disclosure Processes

The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants a peek behind the curtain of the government’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process. The advocacy group on Tuesday filed a Freedom of Information Act FOIA lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence hopin...

PayPal Freezes $275,000 Campaign Funds of Secure-Email Startup 'ProtonMail'

ProtonMail, an End-to-End Encrypted email service developed by MIT, Harvard and CERN researchers, who already received over $275,000 from a crowdfunding campaigns to their PayPal account, and was so much excited to launch its beta version, but just before that PayPal freezes their account without...

Researchers Uncover Spying Tool Used by Governments to Hijack all Types of Smartphones

Purchasing malware to victimize people is illegal by laws but if the same thing any government official do, then its not!! Yes, the police forces around the World are following the footsteps of U.S. National Security Agency NSA and FBI. Researchers from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Globa...

India to Host 3rd Annual 'The Hackers Conference' this Year in August

A crowd of Cyberspace experts along with the best minds in Indian hacking community, leaders in the information security community, policymakers and Government representatives will come together at a common platform to join their efforts in addressing the most critical issues of the Internet...

Kaspersky, Citizen Lab Uncover HackingTeam Mobile Malware

Controversial spyware commercially developed by Italy’s HackingTeam and sold to governments and law enforcement for the purpose of surveillance, has a global command and control infrastructure and for the first time, security experts have insight into how its mobile malware components work...

House Amendment Limits Funding for NSA Surveillance

The House of Representatives last night overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act that would cut funding for two programs that grant intelligence agencies access to the private data and communications of U.S. citizens. The amendment shows that Congress is...