Snowden: Surveillance Has Damaged Internet, U.S. Economy

The mass surveillance programs that he revealed through media leaks in the last year have not only compromised the privacy and security of Americans, but have damaged the country’s economy, Edward Snowden said in an interview Monday. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who sto...

Pinterest Issues First Transparency Report

Pinterest, the social image-sharing site known predominately for wedding planning and recipe dissemination, released its first transparency report on Friday. While the government – unsurprisingly – makes few requests of this most bubbly of social networks, the report seems to carry a broader...

Satoshi Nakamoto - The Mysterious Bitcoin Creator finally identified in California

'Satoshi Nakamoto', the mysterious founder and creator of the biggest digital cryptocurrency 'Bitcoin' has reportedly been unmasked as a 64-year-old father of six living in Temple City, Southern California. Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world in 2008, but his identity has remained...

HTTPS can leak your Personal details to Attackers

Explosive revelations of massive surveillance programs conducted by government agencies by the former contractor Edward Snowden triggered new debate about the security and privacy of each individual who is connected somehow to the Internet and after the Snowden’s disclosures they think that by...

Encrypted Chat Service 'Cryptocat' released iOS app

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Institute for Electric Grid Cybersecurity Girds Utilities

Critical infrastructure policymakers are advocating the foundation of a new entity, the Institute for Electric Grid Cybersecurity, along with a new set of guidelines, to better protect the North American electric grid from cyber-attacks and determine how to respond if the grid is ever compromised...

大汉xxgk（政府信息公开）系统某处越权+getshell

简要描述： 政府信息公开系统的getshell。和前两天发的那个拿shell方式是不一样的。 详细说明： 越权发生在setup/oprsetting.jsp 拿shell是在上传license文件的jsp中setup/oprlicenceinfo.jsp 漏洞证明： 此时已经将setup的登录密码清空。（有风险，请勿随意尝试，不要跟着我犯错……） 提交数据的时候清空密码即可登录成功 img src="https://images.seebug.org/upload/201403/032350491567f745ccbf670be2346bb5147a9878.png"...

Russia Today (RT) Hacked, "Russian" replaced with "Nazi" in News Headlines

'Russia Today', Moscow based Russia's biggest news channel website RT.com has been hacked and defaced by an unknown group of hackers. Hackers have replaced “Russia” or “Russians” with “Nazi” or “Nazis” word from the headlines, as shown. "RT website has been hacked, we are working to resolve the...

CloudFlare Issues Transparency Report

CloudFlare claims government requests for user data are affecting fewer than .017 percent of their two million global customers The Web performance and security company yesterday issued the report in accordance with the Department of Justice’s new regulations for publishing information pertaining...

Lavabit Case May Be One of Many in Coming Years

SAN FRANCISCO–The Lavabit case, which saw the secure email provider’s owner shut the company down after being forced to hand over to the government the encryption key that protected his users’ data, may seem like an extreme reaction to a unique situation. But, experts say it’s likely that there...

FBI Director James B. Comey RSA Conference Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO – Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller predicted to his successor James B. Comey that cybersecurity would dominate his 10-year tenure much the same way terrorism did Mueller’s. “After five months, he’s right,” Comey said today during his keynote address at RSA Conference 2014. Comey...

Google, Microsoft Privacy Officers Lobby for Transparency

SAN FRANCISCO – Privacy has been in a stranglehold for a long time. Some believe it’s a fleeting concept done irreparable harm by the Snowden revelations. Others believe it’s merely in a transition until the norms of Internet behavior are sorted out. The privacy chiefs of Google, Microsoft and...

After a Turbulent Year, Still Some Optimism in the Security World

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite all of the revelations and accusations and recriminations in the security industry in the last year, Microsoft’s Scott Charney said he is still optimistic about the industry’s ability to defend users. However, that optimism is tempered by concern about the threats those user...

Dropbox Updates Privacy Policy in Response to Surveillance

The online storage service Dropbox has amended its privacy policy at least in part to better address increased concerns regarding how the service perceives, responds to, and handles government requests for user-data. The new government data requests principles come as part of broader and fairly...

CNNVD Gov CN #1 - Filter Bypass & Persistent Vulnerability

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CNNVD Gov CN #1 - Filter Bypass & Persistent Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== CNNVD Gov CN 1 - Filter Bypass & Persistent Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1209 Release Date: ============= 2014-02-21 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ====================================...

Dropbox Publishes 2013 Transparency Report

Dropbox yesterday released a new set of principles that explain how it deals with government requests for customer data. The principles were a companion to its 2013 Transparency Report, which for the first time included National Security Letter requests made to the file hosting service. “We belie...

The Mask Malware: A 7-Year Cyber Espionage Campaign Unmasked

A sophisticated cyber spying operation, The Mask , that has been under the radar for about 7 years and targeted approximately 31 countries, has now been unmasked by researchers at Kaspersky Labs. Researchers believe the campaign has been active since 2007 and is a highly sophisticated nation-stat...

New APT Campaign Dubbed The Mask Called Most Sophisticated Seen to Date

PUNTA CANA–A group of high-level, nation-state attackers has been targeting government agencies, embassies, diplomatic offices and energy companies with a cyber-espionage campaign for more than five years that researchers say is the most sophisticated APT operation they’ve seen to date. The attac...

The Internet is Owned--Act Accordingly

PUNTA CANA—Costin Raiu is a cautious man. He measures his words carefully and says exactly what he means, and is not given to hyperbole or exaggeration. Raiu is the driving force behind much of the intricate research into APTs and targeted attacks that Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis...