WhatsSpy - Trace the moves of a WhatsApp user

WhatsSpy Public is an web-oriented application that tracks every move of whoever you like to follow. This application is setup as an Proof of Concept that Whatsapp is broken in terms of privacy. Once you've setup this application you can track users that you want to follow on Whatsapp. Once it's...

Police Using High-Tech Device to See Through Walls Warrantlessly

We are all aware of the mass surveillance conducted by the government agencies on us. From our phone calls, emails to web activities, chats and social network activities, everything has been interrupted by the law enforcements. And now they have crossed every limits by using a new way to spy on...

Smartphone Owners Lack Motivation to Adequately Lock Devices

A quarter of smartphone owners don’t lock their devices because they don’t believe they have any data worth protecting. Even more refrain from doing it because they feel like it’s too much of a hassle. That’s at least according to a new study carried out by six researchers, four from the Universi...

Xiaomi Data Breach — "Exposing Xiaomi" Talk Pulled from Hacking Conference

China’s number one — and the world’s 3rd largest — smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, which is trying to make inroads into India’s booming mobile phone market, was found secretly sending users’ personal data, including IMEI numbers, phone numbers and text messages to the web servers back to Beijing...

Worldview-3 — Satellite That Could Allow Google and U.S Government to See Your Face from Space

Majority of my articles are related to government spying, privacy and security issues of your online stuffs and also measures that you can adopt in protecting yourself from being spied on. But, your all efforts will soon be of no use - someone is about to secretly track your every footstep. Googl...

Research Shows Increase in Internet Filtering and Usage of FireChat App in Iraq

Researchers at Citizen Lab have taken a close look at the extent of Internet filtering in Iraq, as well as the security of a popular offline chat app used there, and found an increase in the number of services blocked by the government and identified serious privacy and security problems with the...

Snoopy Drone Can Hack Your Smartphones

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVS called Drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. Drones were once used for land surveillance, Delivering Pizza's, then equipped with bombs that changed the way nations conduct war and now these hovering drones are ready to hack your Smartphones...

The NSA and Mark Zuckerberg's Righteous Anger

Mark Zuckerberg is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. Actually, he is going to take it, because we all are going to take it, at least for the foreseeable future. Zuckerberg is upset that the NSA is spying on his users, and even madder that the agency is allegedly using fake...

Anonymous Search engine 'DuckDuckGo' Android app offers Tor integration

The world of mobile search is about to get a bit more anonymous. Thanks to the fears over government surveillance and corporate tracking, Anonymous Search Engine DuckDuckGo continues to break its own search records. DuckDuckGo Search & Stories - Android app deliver the same functionality as...

iPhone 5s Users Fooled By Apple, NSA and A Fake middle finger

Last week Apple releases the iPhone 5S with Touch ID, a fingerprint-scanning feature, promoted by the company as "Your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world". Just after the launch of iOS7, Hackers around the world come up with a series of security issues and privacy concerns. One...

iPhone 5s Users Fooled By Apple, NSA and A Fake middle finger

Last week Apple releases the iPhone 5S with Touch ID, a fingerprint-scanning feature, promoted by the company as "Your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world". Just after the launch of iOS7, Hackers around the world come up with a series of security issues and privacy concerns. One...

The Controversial CISPA Is Back in Congress

Updated 4/10/13: The U.S. House Intelligence Committee voted 18-2 for the new version of CISPA, with the two dissents coming from Democrat members of the committee. “This is clearly not a theoretical threat – the recent spike in advanced cyber attacks against the banks and newspapers makes that...

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...

Win $13,500 bounty to hack Kim Dotcom's Mega encryption

Kim Dotcom is offering a bounty of €10,000 approx. US$13,580 to the first person who breaks its newly launched file storage service. Mega's launch last month was meet by criticism from multiple security researchers, Kim Dotcom announced a prize to the hackers last week. Kim tweeted,"Mega's open...

Most Smartphone Users Consider Privacy When Vetting Apps

Cellphone owners now account for 88 percent of the U.S. population, of which some 43 percent say they download applications on their phones. Among these ‘app users,’ 57 percent told the Pew Internet and American Life Project that they have either uninstalled existing applications or made the...

Anonymous Leaks Apple UDIDs Following Alleged Hack of FBI

UPDATE–The Antisec arm of hacktivist group Anonymous published one million unique device identifier numbers, or UDIDs, for Apple devices, including iPhones and iPads, on Monday night. The group alleges the slew of information was swiped from a laptop belonging to the FBI earlier this year. In a...

EFF: New Cybersecurity Bill Better, Still Unnecessary

The controversial Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act has been scrapped and replaced by a new bill that online rights advocates still consider unnecessary, but which they also acknowledge is a vast improvement on the slew of other bills that have cropped up in recent months. Thankfully, the...

Wireless Carriers See Spike in Cell Phone Records Requests

Some of the nation’s largest wireless carriers say they last year collectively received some 1.3 million requests from law enforcement for customers’ phone records – a number that continues to rise. The information shared with police includes geolocation information, content of text messages,...

NSA Chief Says Today's Cyber Attacks Amount to 'Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History'

The general in charge of the National Security Agency on Monday said the lack of national cybersecurity leglislation is costing us big and amounting to what he believes is “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” U.S. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander urged politicians to stop stalling on approvi...