Intelligence Insiders Disclose Bug Information With Tor

The executive director of the Tor Project told the BBC that U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies are in an internal cat and mouse game, with one faction trying to break the anonymity network, and another one sharing bugs anonymously with Tor developers. Andrew Leman, in an extensive...

Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2014-1075)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1075 advisory. - kvm-qcow1-Validate-L2-table-size-CVE-2014-0222.txt bz1097225 - kvm-qcow1-Validate-image-size-CVE-2014-0223.txt bz1097234 - Resolves: bz1097225...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2014:1075)

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, ar...

qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:1075 Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS ba...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security and bug fix update

Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security and bug fix update

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, ar...

'Google Is Worse Than the NSA' — Rupert Murdoch

The United States National Intelligence Agency NSA or the largest Internet giant Google - According to you, which one is the worse? NSA? But, according to the popular Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch @rupertmurdoch, Google is worse than the NSA. Murdoch, founder of global media holding company News...

Hillary Clinton's Phone Intercepted by German intelligence Agency

After the allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency NSA not only conducted mass surveillance on German citizens, but also spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own personal mobile phone for years, surveillance has become a big issue for Germany. So big, that Germany itself started...

GCHQ's HACIENDA Port Scanning Program Targeting Devices in 27 Countries

Have you ever used Shodan search engine? A publicly available service crawls the Internet looking for connected devices and list their open ports, services running, system information etc. Shodan search engine is majorly used by Hackers, developers, students and anyone else with a sense of...

NSA Accidentally Took Down Syria's Internet While Infiltrating Central Router System

Before proceeding towards the story, let’s first go back two years to figure out what was wrong when Syria was completely blackout - sudden disconnect from the Internet - which lasted for the period of three days in 2012. Is that the Syrian government behind the blackout ? The outage took place...

Breaking - Edward Snowden Get 3 More Years In Russia

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 31-year-old global surveillance whistleblower and former U.S. intelligence contractor, who has received a three- year residence permit from Russia, his lawyer announced on Today. “On the...

In the Wake of the Snowden Revelations, A Wave of Innovation

It was an absurd scene. Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA and a four-star general in the Army, stood alone on the stage, squinting through the floodlights as members of the standing-room-only crowd shouted insults and accusations. Armed men in dark suits roamed the area in front of the...

Russian Government Asks Apple to Hand Over iOS and Mac Source Code

Just few days after the announcement that Russian government will pay almost 4 million ruble approximately equal to $111,000 to the one who can devise a reliable technology to decrypt data sent over the Tor, now the government wants something which is really tough. APPLE & SAP, HAND OVER YOUR...

Tor hidden services attacks deanonymize users

UPDATE: For a little more than six months, attackers were on the Tor network trying to deanonymize users who operate or use Tor hidden services. Tor issued a security advisory this morning warning users who operated or accessed hidden services between Jan. 30 and July 4 that they were likely...

EFF Files Motion Asking Judge to Rule NSA Data Collection Unconsitutional

The EFF has asked a federal judge to rule that the NSA’s collection of massive amounts of upstream user data is unconstitutional, violating the Fourth Amendment. The motion for partial summary judgment in the case of Jewel v. NSA, a six-year-old lawsuit related to NSA data collection on AT&T’s...

Researcher Identifies Hidden Data-Acquisition Services in iOS

There are a number of undocumented and hidden features and services in Apple iOS that can be used to bypass the backup encryption on iOS devices and remove large amounts of users’ personal data. Several of these features began as benign services but have evolved in recent years to become powerful...

NSA Employees Routinely Pass Around Intercepted Photos

The 31-year-old former US National Security Agency NSA contractor Edward Snowden has warned that during surveillance, among other things, NSA system administrators also intercepted and routinely passed the photos of people in "sexually compromising" situations among other NSA employees. In a vide...

FBI — Botnets Infecting 18 Computers per Second. But How Many of Them NSA Holds?

Botnets - a secretly compromised networks of ordinary home and office computers with rogue software or "malware" that are controlled by an individual criminal or a group - has dramatically increased over the past several years and are considered to pose the biggest threat to the Internet. Cyber...

Germany to Consider Typewriters to Protect From US Spying

So far we have heard that using privacy tools by every individual and offering encrypted communication by every company is the only solution to Mass Surveillance conducted by the government and law enforcement authorities. But, Germany says the only solution to guard against surveillance is - Sto...

Outside Panel Finds Over-Reliance on NSA Advice Led to Dual EC Problems

A group of outside experts found that the process that led to the inclusion of the weakened Dual ECDRBG random number generator in a NIST standard was flawed and there were several failures along the way that led to its approval. The committee also recommended that the National Institute of...