Brazilian Judge Overturns 72-Hour WhatsApp Suspension

Following an appeal from WhatsApp’s lawyers, on Tuesday afternoon a Brazilian judge overturned a suspension previously handed down this week that would’ve blocked usage of the messaging app for 72 hours. According to Reuters, on Tuesday afternoon a “different judge from the state tribunal...

Brazil blocks WhatsApp for 72-Hours — Here's Why

In Brief For the second time in past five months, a Brazil court ordered local telecommunications companies to block the popular messaging app WhatsApp for 72 hours, afterFacebook-owned WhatsApp company refused to hand over information requested in a drug trafficking investigation. The WhatsApp's...

FBI Issues Ransomware Warning

The FBI has issued a warning to businesses about the relentless wave of ransomware. The bulletin includes preventative tips, and an affirmation of the bureau’s stance that companies affected by cryptoransomware attacks in particular should not succumb to temptation and pay their attackers off. Th...

Child Porn Suspect Held in Jail for 7 Months for refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives

In Brief A suspect of child pornography possession, Francis Rawls, who is a former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has been in solitary confinement without charges for last seven months and will remain until he complies with a court order forcing him to decrypt his password-protected har...

LocalTapiola: Source Code Disclosure on out of scope domain viestinta.lahitapiola.fi

Issue The reporter had found an open .git folder on one of our out of scope domains. Fix The issue was investigated and found to be valid. The source code was removed from the public server. The source code did not contain any business critical information and customer information was never at...

Encrypted Smartphone Network Seized by Dutch Police for Criminal Investigation

On Tuesday, the Dutch Police arrested a 36-year-old man, Danny Manupassa, on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling encrypted smartphones to criminals. Manupassa owns a company called Ennetcom, which provides customized Blackberry Phones with the secure PGP-encrypted network...

BlackBerry CEO Defends Lawful Access Principles, Supports Phone Hack

BlackBerry’s CEO made the company’s stance on lawful access requests clear this week and is defending actions to provide Canadian law enforcement with what it needed to decrypt communications between devices. The company’s CEO John Chen penned a statement on Monday, reiterating that one of...

Canadian Police obtained Master Key to Crack BlackBerry Messenger Encryption

BlackBerry has long been known for its stance on mobile security, as it was the first mobile phone maker to provide end-to-end encryption. But a new report revealed that the company has provided a master backdoor to law enforcement in its secure devices since 2010. The Royal Canadian Mounted Poli...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID22240: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 13, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 44645 First Published: 2016 April 13 19:00 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID22240 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID22239: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 13, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 44638 First Published: 2016 April 13 14:18 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID22239 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Robo Gallery <= 2.0.14 - Remote Code Execution

This is potentially a False Positive. Needs further investigation...

Slack: Authentication bypass leads to sensitive data exposure (token+secret)

@secalert discovered an information disclosure on our server which took advantage of an authorization error that allowed the viewing of sensitive information on the server. We mitigated the issue and no longer expose such information, and performed an investigation to verify that no unauthorized...

Security Researcher Goes Missing, Who Investigated Bangladesh Bank Hack

Tanvir Hassan Zoha, a 34-year-old security researcher, who spoke to media on the $81 Million Bangladesh Bank cyber theft, has gone missing since Wednesday night, just days after accusing Bangladesh's central bank officials of negligence. Zoha was investigating a recent cyber attack on Bangladesh'...

WhatsApp Reportedly Next in DOJ's Battle on Crypto

If a report from this weekend’s New York Times is to be believed, the popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp may be the next technology company to find itself in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice and its war on crypto. Government officials are reportedly torn on how to proceed with...

Florida Sheriff threatens to Arrest 'Rascal' Tim Cook if He Doesn't Unlock the iPhone

The legal battle between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is turning ugly with each passing day. Apple is fighting with the federal authorities over iPhone encryption case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI requires Apple’s assistance to unlock an iPhone 5C belonging to San...

Cancer Clinic Warns 2.2 Million Of Records Breach

Florida-based cancer treatment center 21st Century Oncology Holdings is warning 2.2 million patients that health data and Social Security numbers were stolen from its computer network. The breach, which was revealed on March 4, occurred last November and included the theft of patient names, Socia...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID20774: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on January 30, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 43342 First Published: 2016 February 1 15:33 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID20774 may contain the following files: Name |...

Casino Sues Cyber Security Company Over Failure to Stop Hackers

IT security firm Trustwave has been sued by a Las Vegas-based casino operator for conducting an allegedly "woefully inadequate" investigation following a network breach of the casino operator’s system. Affinity Gaming, an operator of 5 casinos in Nevada and 6 elsewhere in the United States, has...

SlemBunk Part II: Prolonged Attack Chain and Better-Organized Campaign

Introduction Our follow-up investigation of a nasty Android banking malware we identified at the tail end of last year has not only revealed that the trojan is more persistent than we initially realized – thus making for a much more dangerous threat – but that it is also being used as part of an...

Linode Customer Password Reset, DDoS Attack

Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes as it continues to battle a distributed denial-of-service attack that began on Christmas. A Linode...