Mozilla recommends the use of Open Source Browsers against State Surveillance

After the revelations from NSA internal documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the world knows the NSA as the Real Techie Gangster of this 21st Century, with the ability to brutally infiltrate every kind of electronic device, the Internet, and global communications. "It is becoming increasingly...

MIT University website defaced by Anonymous hackers in honor of Aaron Swartz

Today is January 11, 2014 and the last year on the same day a 26-year-old, young hacker, Reddit cofounder and the digital Activist, Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide. He found dead in his Brooklyn, New York apartment, where he had hanged himself.Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury in July...

CREDO Mobile Publishes Industry's First Transparency Report

Credo Mobile, the small San Francisco mobile provider that is reportedly the unnamed plaintiff in a suit that challenged the legality of national security letters, yesterday published its first transparency report, the first such report published by a mobile provider. Credo, which has raised tens...

Unencrypted Windows Error Reporting Crash Reports a Treasure

One of the revelations from latest Snowden document leaks described how the U.S. National Security Agency was able to intercept Microsoft Windows Error Reporting logs in order to fingerprint machines for potential compromise. The German publication Der Spiegel says the documents indicated the NSA...

Samsung Knox Vulnerable to Data Intercept

An Israeli security researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs claims to have uncovered a serious security flaw in Samsung Knox. Knox is a security- and privacy-centric platform built into certain Samsung devices running Android. The Knox architecture, tailored f...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : nss (MDVSA-2013:301)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in mozilla NSS : Google notified Mozilla that an intermediate certificate, which chains up to a root included in Mozillas root store, was loaded into a man-in-the-middle MITM traffic management device. This certificate was issued by Agence nationa...

大汉通版jis统一身份认证系统漏洞打包

简要描述： 大汉通版jis统一身份认证系统漏洞打包，政府部门使用居多 详细说明： 大汉通版jis统一身份认证系统: 在用户修改信息时进行抓包发现 POST: http://10.11.5.201:9080/jis/front/upduserdo.jsp CONTENT:...

Government Requests for Google Data Continue to Rise

The volume of government requests to Google for user data is continuing to increase, something that should come as no surprise in the current climate. In its latest transparency report, the company said that it received more than 25,000 requests for user data in the first six months of 2013, an...

CVE-2013-5402

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in IBM Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo for Government, Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life Sciences, Maximo for Oil and Gas, and Maximo for Utilities 7.1.x through 7.1.1.12, 7.1.2, 7.5 befo...

U.S. District Court Judge Rules NSA Metadata Collection Likely Violates Fourth Amendment

A United States District Court judge has ruled that the bulk metadata collection program maintained by the National Security Agency for years now likely is unconstitutional. The judge, ruling on a pair of law suits that claimed the NSA’s methods violated users’ privacy and civil rights, said that...

China APT Hackers Target Diplomats in Ke3chang Campaign

European diplomats and ministries of foreign affairs have been targeted during recent G20 meetings by Chinese-speaking hackers conducting espionage campaigns using malware to siphon secrets from compromised computers. The latest incidents came in August when spear phishing messages spiked with...

Moxie Marlinspike on TextSecure CyanogenMod integration

Moxie Marlinspike Moxie Marlinspike has published landmark research on SSL vulnerabilities, taken on certificate authorities and even built an alternative to CAs as we know them today called Convergence. But now that government surveillance and online privacy have been elevated to mainstream...

France Government used Rogue Google SSL Digital Certificates to Spy on users

Google has found that the French government agency using unauthorized digital certificates for some of its own domains to perform man-in-the-middle attacks on a private network. Google security engineer Adam Langley described the incident as a "Serious Security breach", which was discovered in...

Mis-issued ANSSI/DCSSI certificate — Mozilla

Google notified Mozilla that an intermediate certificate, which chains up to a root included in Mozilla’s root store, was loaded into a man-in-the-middle MITM traffic management device. This certificate was issued by Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information ANSSI, an agency of t...

Tech Companies Join Reform Government Surveillance Alliance

Eight massive technology companies including Facebook, Apple and Google make up a new coalition calling for a reform of surveillance practices, which the companies say are undermining trust in not only their respective services, but of the Internet as a medium for communication and commerce. The...

Han Edition through JCMS content management system arbitrary File Download vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

With this system Government portal, mostly, on Google inurl:gov. cn/jcms way, the amount is not very large. Multiple arbitrary File Download, effects version unknown, probably all affect it. 1. http://target/jcms/m59/sendreport/downfile.jsp?filename=/etc/passwd&savename=passwd.txt To get to the...

Enorth Webpublisher CMS SQL Injection Vulnerability

Enorth Webpublisher CMS suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Title: ==== CVE-2013-6985SQL Injection Vulnerability In Enorth Webpublisher CMS Vendor: ====== http://products.enorth.com.cn/bfnrglxt/index.shtml Severity: ======= Important Versions Affected: ============== All versions...

European Commission Urges U.S to Reform Surveillance Methods

The European Commission is urging the United States government to make some changes to the way it handles surveillance to help restore the trust in the relationship between the EU and the U.S. The commission is asking for the U.S. to promote privacy rights internationally, adopt the EU’s data...

Privacy, Human Rights Groups Form New Anti-Surveillance Coalition

A large group of privacy and digital rights organizations has put together a new effort to urge politicians to curtail the mass surveillance operations that have been exposed in the last few months. The new coalition has developed a set of 13 principles for governments to follow in their...

Twitter Implements Perfect Forward Secrecy

Twitter took another step toward not only securing the privacy of its users’ communication over the social network, but in warding off the prying eyes of government surveillance with the implementation of Perfect Forward Secrecy. The technology thwarts the efforts of anyone who may be collecting...