Singapore police arrested six men for allegedly hacking Prime Minister and President websites

A Singaporean hacker calling himself the "The Messiah" was arrested in Kuala Lumpur last Monday for hacking into a Singaporean government website over two weeks ago - from a Kuala Lumpur apartment. James Raj 35 charged with hacking of Ang Mo Kio town council website and posting a symbol associate...

Smartphones, A Perfect Cyber Espionage and Surveillance Weapon

The use of mobile devices in government environments concerns the secret service of any states, cyber espionage more often exploits the mobile platforms. Mobile devices are reason of great concern for governments, they have a great computational capability, huge memories to store our personal dat...

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...

Rise in website Defacement attacks by Hackers around the World

Last week we noticed a rise in cyber attacks particularly - website Defacement attacks on many governments and organizations of different countries by the hackers around the world. Targeted countries include Singapore, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, Egypt, United States, Syria and many more. Out...

Rise in website Defacement attacks by Hackers around the World

Last week we noticed a rise in cyber attacks particularly - website Defacement attacks on many governments and organizations of different countries by the hackers around the world. Targeted countries include Singapore, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, Egypt, United States, Syria and many more. Out...

Tech Giants Plead for U.S. Surveillance Reforms

Giant technology companies have been vocal about the need for more transparency with regard to the national security requests for user data they receive. But until now, they’ve stayed out of the political fight to address government surveillance, in particular by the National Security Agency...

EFF: Fifth Amendment Protects Against Compelled Decryption

With new leaks about the extent of U.S. government surveillance coming almost daily, one constant remains among all the deterrents to the NSA’s prying eyes: encryption technology works. As far as we know, the math behind encryption is solid, despite the specter of some unnamed breakthrough made b...

British Man Indicted for Hacking U.S. Governement

The United States District Court in New Jersey is accusing British citizen Lauri Love, and others not named, of conspiring to and illegally accessing various government and military networks. The purpose of these attacks, prosecutors said, was to steal vast stores of personally identifiable and...

British Baptist Minister's son charged with hacking US Army and Nasa Computer Systems

Son of a Baptist Minister, 28-year-old British man named Lauri Love has been charged with hacking into the computer systems of the US army, NASA and other federal agencies. He was arrested Friday at his home in Stradishall, England by the National Crime Agency and according to the indictment...

New Bill Would End Mass Surveillance

UPDATE: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner R-Wisc. is introducing a bill that would counteract many of the elements of the U.S. PATRIOT Act that enables the mass collection of data belonging to U.S. citizens. Sensenbrenner’s bill is called the USA FREEDOM Act, a quasi-acronym for Uniting and Strengthening...

TrueCrypt Audit Endorsed by Development Team

UPDATE — The effort to audit TrueCrypt, the open source encryption tool, received an important endorsement in the last week when a member of its anonymous development team reached out to the organizers of IsTrueCryptAuditedYet? “He wrote us a friendly but formal letter stating that they were happ...

Cryptoseal VPN Service shuts down over legal concerns after Lavabit case

Yet another American Internet privacy service has bitten the dust, prompted by fears about broad government surveillance demands. CryptoSeal, a Virtual private network VPN based in California has decided to shutter its privacy-conscious service rather than hand over its encryption keys to the U.S...

Qatar is Down ! Syrian Electronic Army hijacks major Qatar websites

The Syrian Electronic Army SEA is at it again. The hacktivist group, who are known to back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has hacked many high profile Qatar based websites, including the Google, Facebook, Aljazeera and Government - Military websites. Starting at about 4:25 am GMT 5:30+, the...

trs某系统任意文件下载漏洞第二弹

简要描述： 感觉挺严重的问题，存在的地方包括但是不局限银行、政府等行业。 详细说明： exp inforadar/jsp/util/filedownload.jsp?filePath=../../../../../../../etc/passwd exp2 http://inforadar.trs.com.cn/jsp/util/filedownload.jsp?filePath=c:%5Cboot.ini%00.xml 官方网站需要加个截断，就可以了 应该是神马雷达系统。 很多地方都有这问题。 但是google找不到多少个，因为很多都是二次开发，目录明改变了。 比如招行。。。...

New Zealand Government Forcing Internet Companies and Network Operators to provide Interception capability

In August the New Zealand has passed a bill that radically expands the powers of The Government Communications Security Bureau GCSB, an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government, equivalent of the National Security Agency NSA. The bill demands the companies and other network operators lik...

Technologists Scrutinize Impact of Surveillance on Economy

If you’re looking for silver linings among the Snowden leaks and the breadth of the NSA’s surveillance activities, they could be found in two things: 1 the math upholding encryption technology is, as far as we know, solid; and 2 Tor apparently drives the U.S. spy agency batty. “I’m surprised,” sa...

trs某商业系统多个安全漏洞

简要描述： trs某商业系统多个漏洞集合 包括信息泄露 xss 未授权访问等 详细说明： trs was40产品存在多个安全漏洞 1.未授权访问 直接访问was40/tree可以看到一些后台功能 2.信息泄露 访问was40/passwd/passwd.htm 输入一个不存在的用户名会暴露出服务器内网IP地址 同时存在暴力破解用户密码的可能性。 3.未授权发布信息+xss 编辑信息的时候未对提交的数据进行过滤，同时存在未对用户是否登录进行验证 4. 部分用户系统存在system/manager 若政府站点存在第三条风险，会带来很大的社会影响，比如发布反动信息、政府负面信息。...

Behind the South Korean Government DDoS Attacks

BERLIN–In the last few years, there have been a series of DDoS attacks and intrusions on government networks in South Korea that have resulted in the loss of untold amounts of data. The four attacks haven’t been linked together or attributed to the same attackers, but there are some similarities ...

Anonymous Search engine 'DuckDuckGo' Android app offers Tor integration

The world of mobile search is about to get a bit more anonymous. Thanks to the fears over government surveillance and corporate tracking, Anonymous Search Engine DuckDuckGo continues to break its own search records. DuckDuckGo Search & Stories - Android app deliver the same functionality as...

NSA Director Alexander Confirms Cell Location Pilot Program

In between pleas to end the government shutdown that has upwards of 70 percent of the intelligence community furloughed until further notice, NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper spent a significant amount of time before a Senate Judiciary Committe...