Private Messaging System: Vuvuzela

Vuvuzela is a messaging system that protects the privacy of message contents and message metadata. Users communicating through Vuvuzela do not reveal who they are talking to, even in the presence of powerful nation-state adversaries. Vuvuzela is the first system that provides strong metadata...

National Security Letter Attachment Details

While the Snowden documents have demystified the intelligence community’s hacking abilities, few specifics are known about National Security Letters, law enforcement’s most powerful tool to compel telecommunications and Internet service providers to turn over a broad scope of user data, and which...

Today NSA has Stopped its Bulk Phone Surveillance Program

Rejoice! From this morning, you can call freely to anyone, talk anything without any fear of being spied by the United States National Security Agency NSA, as the agency is not allowed to collect bulk phone records. Until now we all are aware of the NSA's bulk phone surveillance program – thanks ...

CVE-2015-4852

The WLS Security component in Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6.0, 12.1.2.0, 12.1.3.0, and 12.2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object in T3 protocol traffic to TCP port 7001, related to...

Same Rhetoric Permeates Going Dark Encryption Debate

BOSTON — The Going Dark encryption debate surfaced again on Wednesday at a small security conference here, and as in previous iterations before larger technical audiences and even Congress, the issue continues to spin on a hamster wheel going nowhere. This time the notable dignitary stumping for...

Fewer IPsec VPN Connections at Risk to Weak Diffie-Hellman

A challenge has been made against one of the conclusions in a potentially blockbuster academic paper on cryptographic weaknesses that may be the open door through which intelligence agencies are breaking encrypted connections. The paper, “Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in...

NSA-linked Spying Malware Infected Top German Official's Computer

The German authorities have initiated a further investigation into espionage by the United States secret service NSA and British intelligence agency GCHQ after... ...the head of the German Federal Chancellery unit had his private laptop infected. According to a recent report published by Der...

Yahoo Hires Bob Lord as CISO

Yahoo has filled the vacancy in its CISO office, today announcing the hiring of former Twitter and Rapid7 security executive Bob Lord. Lord starts in his new role Nov. 9. He was most recently Rapid7’s CISO-in-residence; he has spent much of the last two decades in high-profile security positions...

Cryptographers Concerned Over NSA's Deprecation of ECC

The National Security Agency has long cuddled up to Elliptic Curve Cryptography, swaying standards bodies away from RSA crypto and toward ECC in the late 1990s, as well as recommending it as a strong enough solution for sensitive government agencies to use in guarding their biggest secrets. In...

THN Weekly Roundup — Top 10 Hacking News Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

We are back with THN Weekly RoundUp to spread lights on last week's top cyber security threats and challenges, just in case you missed any of them ICYMI. Last week, we came to know about many security threats including how Google records and stores our Voice searches, How hackers can use...

NSA Exploiting Weak Diffie-Hellman Primes to Break Crypto

The great mystery since the NSA and other intelligence agencies’ cyber-spying capabilities became watercooler fodder has not been the why of their actions, but the how? For example, how are they breaking crypto to decode secure Internet communication? A team of cryptographers and computer...

How NSA successfully Broke Trillions of Encrypted Connections

Yes, it seems like the mystery has been solved. We are aware of the United States National Security Agency NSA powers to break almost unbreakable encryption used on the Internet and intercept nearly Trillions of Internet connections – thanks to the revelations made by whistleblower Edward Snowden...

British Intelligence Agency Can Hack Any Smartphone With Just a Text Message

Former NSA contractor and global surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden told the BBC investigative programme Panorama Monday night that the British intelligence agency GCHQ has powers to hack any smartphones without their owners' knowledge. You heard right. The British Spying Agency have speci...

AdBlock Extension has been Sold to an 'Unknown Buyer'

Shocking! Adblock Extension that blocks annoying online advertising has been sold... ...And more shocking, the most popular "Adblock Extension", with more than 40 million users, quietly sold their creation to an unknown buyer... 'Michael Gundlach', the creator widely used Adblock Extension refuse...

Breaking: Edward Snowden Joins Twitter & Only Follows ‘NSA’

Whistleblower Edward Snowden just joined Twitter, and his first tweet seems to be directed at the US National Security Agency NSA. Yes, the world's most popular whistleblower and data privacy advocate has finally joined Twitter just two hours ago, and his first tweet came, “Can you hear me now?”...

German Spy-Agency Trades Citizens' Metadata in Exchange for NSA's Xkeyscore

This is Really Insane!! Germany's top intelligence agency handed over details related to German citizen metadata just in order to obtain a copy of the National Security Agency's Main XKeyscore software, which was first revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013. According to the new documents obtained by...

Meet the NSA's Best Friend in Spying On The Internet

Fed up with the NSA-Snowden updates? Wait a second...there's some more! Back in May 2013, when former NSA employee Edward Snowden leaked classified documents from the U.S. National Security Agency NSA, we doubted the relationship between NSA and telecommunications giant AT&T. But, now their...

AT&T Facilitated NSA Surveillance Efforts

Telecommunication giant AT&T facilitated, to a larger degree than any other provider, the National Security Agency’s surveillance reach beyond domestic telephone data collection to email and Internet traffic, companion New York Times and ProPublica articles said on Saturday. It’s probably the...

Writing OS X Malware at Black Hat 2015

Patrick Wardle has one word for today’s generation of Mac OS X malware: lame. Sure there are advanced samples out there developed by nation-state sponsored groups or exploit vendors such as Hacking Team, but for the most part, Wardle says, we’re still talking about malware that are standalone...

White House Says No Thanks to Snowden Pardon Petition

It’s been more than two years since Edward Snowden became a name as familiar to the millions of people who have no idea what the NSA actually does it is to the power players in Washington. In that time support for Snowden has waxed and waned, but the position of the White House on Snowden’s actio...