China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer

China has developed a new supercomputer known as Tianhe-2 which is twice as fast as US and Japanese systems has been measured at speeds of 30.65 petaflops or 74 percent faster than the current holder of the world's-fastest-supercomputer title. Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy's fastest...

NSA collecting phone records of millions of US citizens daily

The National Security Agency is collecting telephone records for millions of Americans without informing the individuals involved. The shocking news has been revealed by 'Guardian' whose journalists had access to a "Top Secret" court order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, issued in April against...

China Accuses America of Hacking

The predominant narrative among U.S. officials and security experts is that Chinese hackers, allegedly at the behest of their government, are thoroughly compromising the computer networks of American government, defense, and public sector organizations in order to steal any valuable data. What yo...

Turkish PM Erdogan's staff emails hacked and leaked by Syrian Electronic Army Hackers as #OpTurkey

Syrian Electronic army appears to be taking part in ongoing operation against Turkey government website. Hackers collectively called Anonymous and SEA breached into Turkish Ministry of Interior website and the private information of staffers in PM Tayyip Erdogan's office. Hackers claimed that the...

Turkish PM Erdogan’s staff emails hacked and leaked by Syrian Electronic Army Hackers as #OpTurkey

Syrian Electronic army appears to be taking part in ongoing operation against Turkey government website. Hackers collectively called Anonymous and SEA breached into Turkish Ministry of Interior website and the private information of staffers in PM Tayyip Erdogan's office. Hackers claimed that the...

NetTraveler Espionage Malware Campaign Ties to Gh0st RAT

A new cyberespionage malware campaign with ties to China going back to the Titan Rain and Gh0stNet attacks has been targeting diplomats, military contractors and government agencies in 40 countries. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today unveiled details on NetTraveler, a data exfiltration tool, whic...

Politics, Uncertainty Slowing Down U.S. Response to Cyber Threats

WASHINGTON–The shift in the last few years to cyberespionage and online attacks against the nation’s critical infrastructure have left the United States government lagging behind, and “a day late and a dollar short”, the former director of the National Security Agency said. The ongoing campaigns...

Turkish Government websites hacked by Anonymous, declares #OpTurkey

Internet Activists and Collective Hacker group Anonymous carried out a series of cyber attacks on Turkish government websites in retaliation for violent police response to anti-government protests, launched OpTurkey operation. There are several videos to be seen on YouTube about the protest of...

Defeating Internet Blocking With Lahana VPN-Tor Bridge

As the anti-government protests in Turkey have escalated in the last few days, privacy activists and security experts have begun working on ways to help people inside Turkey get reliable access to the Internet and privacy tools such as Tor. A security researcher over the weekend released a new to...

Turkish Government websites hacked by Anonymous, declares #OpTurkey

Internet Activists and Collective Hacker group Anonymous carried out a series of cyber attacks on Turkish government websites in retaliation for violent police response to anti-government protests, launched OpTurkey operation. There are several videos to be seen on YouTube about the protest of...

The Case for a Government Bug Bounty Program

Once upon an Internet, a security researcher who discovered a vulnerability had very limited options for what to do with that information. He could send it to the vendor and hope someone cared enough to patch it; he could post it to a mailing list for all to see; or, if he had the right contacts,...

Flame One Year Later

It’s been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery of Flame should be seen as a seminal event in the evolution of malware. When Flame emerged in May 2012, some of the outside...

Chinese hackers access major U.S. weapon system Designs

According to report published by for the Defense Department and government and defense industry officials, Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems. The compromised U.S. designs included those for combat aircraft and ships, ...

Liberty Reserve founder arrested for money laundering, service closed down

Liberty Reserve, a payment processor similar to Paypal was down on Saturday after the founder of Liberty Reserve, Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, 39, on Friday was reportedly arrested in Spain by Costa Rican authorities after his they raided suspect´s home and offices in San José and Heredia. Mr...

Liberty Reserve founder arrested for money laundering, service closed down

Liberty Reserve, a payment processor similar to Paypal was down on Saturday after the founder of Liberty Reserve, Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, 39, on Friday was reportedly arrested in Spain by Costa Rican authorities after his they raided suspect´s home and offices in San José and Heredia. Mr...

Report Says Active Recovery Efforts Could Deter IP Theft By Foreign Attackers

An independent commission focused on the threat of intellectual property from U.S. companies says that between 50 percent and 80 percent of all IP theft originates in China and, in a new report, urges the government to take stronger action against government-sanctioned IP theft. The Commission on...

'The Chinese Are Not Going to Stop'

The news that the attack on Google in 2009 also compromised a database holding warrants for lawful intercept surveillance on users has raised fears about the security of national security data on private networks. Cyberspionage operations pose a serious threat to national security, and these...

Chinese hackers who breached Google in 2010 gained access to thousands of surveillance orders

In 2010, as part of what has been dubbed as Operation Aurora, Chinese hackers infiltrated a special database within Google's systems and gained access to a sensitive database worth of information about American surveillance targets. Google reported the hack publicly years ago, saying that the...

Citadel Banking Malware Targets Payza Payment Service

A new variant of Citadel malware is making the rounds that is targeting Payza, a money transfer service popular all over the world, especially in developing nations that are under-serviced when it comes to accessing the Internet. The payment processing company bills itself as “your money’s gatewa...

National Security Data on Private Networks Exposed as a Weak Point

The United States intelligence community and its counterparts in law enforcement are quite secretive about their surveillance methods and the targets of those operations. Few people are privy to information about ongoing surveillance, but now it turns out that the Chinese government may have a...