Russia grants one year asylum to Edward Snowden, The Most wanted man on Earth

Edward Snowden, the former U.S. The intelligence contractor wanted for revealing the National Security Agency's secret program to collect American phone and internet records, left at Moscow airport after Russian authorities granted him temporary asylum for one year. Mr Snowden's lawyer Anatoly...

Congress Warns Section 215 May Not Be Renewed

Incensed at the way that the Department of Justice and the intelligence community have used the controversial section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, members of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday angrily questioned Justice and NSA officials about their surveillance of U.S. citizens and said that...

PlayStation hacker gets year of House Arrest for destroying evidence of Hack

23-year-old Todd Miller, suspected of hacking into Sony’s PlayStation Network, was due to be arrested, will spend a year on house arrest, but not for the hacking. Instead, he was sentenced yesterday in federal court for obstructing a federal investigation because he smashed his computers, halting...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Two Texas Bills Could Shape Mobile Privacy

Two bills introduced in Texas this week could refine mobile privacy in the state and tweak how law enforcement can request sensitive information from cell phones going forward. A press release from the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition TxEPC credits Bryan Hughes, a Republican from the town of...

White House Executive Order on Cyber Security

The tense standoff between an unresponsive Congress and a reluctant critical infrastructure industry has been broken. On February 13, 2013, the President issued an Executive Order that provides initial guidance for the country to confront escalating cyber threats. Finally, we have someone with th...

CISPA Returns back, Forget privacy reforms

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act CISPA will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers R-Mich. and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger D-Md. before the US House next week. CISPA would've allowed any company to give away all the data its collected on...

CISPA Returns back, Forget privacy reforms

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act CISPA will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers R-Mich. and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger D-Md. before the US House next week. CISPA would've allowed any company to give away all the data its collected on...

House Style 0.1.2 File Disclosure

File disclosure vulnerability in House Style Vulnerability Type: File Disclosure For the exploit source code contact DSquare Security sales team...

White House : No evidence of Espionage by Huawei

According to a White House-ordered review, a giant Chinese technology company "Huawei" is not a state-sponsored espionage tool. Huawei Technologies, the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications equipment. The largely classified investigation, which delved into the security risks pose...

Cyber Security Legislation

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: Get Informed and Get Involved on Cyber Legislation. Every October, the National Cyber Security Alliance sponsors National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and a growing number of businesses and institutions are joining the chorus. The White House got in o...

White House Cyberattack Likely Won't Change Anything

So now it’s the White House’s turn. Having taken a swing at just about every other piece of the U.S. government’s network infrastructure, attackers, reportedly based in China, recently targeted a machine on an unclassified network inside the White House Military Office and were able to compromise...

Chinese hackers attack on White House computers

The White House acknowledged Monday that one of its computer networks was hit by a cyber attack, but said there was no breach of any classified systems and no indication any data was lost. Including systems used by the military for nuclear commands were breached by Chinese hackers. A conservative...

First Signs of Google's Do Not Track Feature Begin to Surface on Chrome

Google Chrome is indeed getting a Do Not Track DNT feature according to source code published in the developer’s release of the browser at the end of last week. The feature should clear Google’s dev and beta channels before making its way into the next stable build of the browser before the end o...

Hacker wanted by FBI held in India For Carding Crimes

Nikhil Kolbekar, aka HellsAngel, was arrested on July 11 in Mumbai, India. Eric Bogle, known as Swat Runs Train, and Justin Mills, or xTGxKAKAROT, were taken into custody in Canada, respectively Colorado, US. HellsAngel and Bogle is suspected of selling complete credit card details, including...

House Style 0.1.2 - readfile() Local File Disclosure

House Style 0.1.2 - readfile Local File Disclosure Exploit Title: House Style 0.1.2 = readfile Local File Disclosure Vulnerability Date: 11/07/2012 Author: GoLdM Vendor or Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/housestyle/ Version: 1.03 Category:: readfile Local File Disclosure...

House Style 0.1.2 - 'readfile()' Local File Disclosure

Exploit Title: House Style 0.1.2 = readfile Local File Disclosure Vulnerability Date: 11/07/2012 Author: GoLdM Vendor or Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/housestyle/ Version: 1.03 Category:: readfile Local File Disclosure Vulnerability2 Tested on: Xp SP 2 Ex : House Style...

House Style 0.1.2 => readfile() Local File Disclosure Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: House Style 0.1.2 = readfile Local File Disclosure Vulnerability Date: 11/07/2012 Author: GoLdM Vendor or Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/housestyle/ Version: 1.03 Category:: readfile Local File Disclosure...

House Hearing to Address Capital Market Threats

The House Committee on Financial Services is hosting a hearing tomorrow in which they will explore the various cyber threats targeting capital markets and government sponsored enterprises. Entitled “Cyber Threats to Capital Markets and Corporate Accounts,” the hearing in front of the Committee on...