White House Proposal Would End NSA Metadata Program

Privacy advocates are cautiously applauding the reports that the Obama administration will unveil a legislative proposal to end the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ bulk phone records, but are concerned what the fine print on that proposal might hold. “Given all the various way...

AT&T Cross Site Scripting

. / \ | |/ / / /\ | |\ \ / | \ |/ \ | // / / / Corporation 2014 c Published Report: 27/02/2014 Credits: Advanced Information Security Corporation, USA Severity: High/Critical OWASP TOP 10 Type: Web Application / Cross-Site Scripting . CVSS: 7.0 Author: Nicholas Lemonias. Information Security...

Hughes Network Systems Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite terminal firmware contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Firmware developed by Hughes Network Systems used in a number of BGAN satellite terminals contains undocumented hardcoded login credentials CWE-798. Additionally, the firmware contains an insecure proprietary communications protocol, likely a debugging service, that allows unauthenticate...

CREDO Mobile Publishes Industry's First Transparency Report

Credo Mobile, the small San Francisco mobile provider that is reportedly the unnamed plaintiff in a suit that challenged the legality of national security letters, yesterday published its first transparency report, the first such report published by a mobile provider. Credo, which has raised tens...

AT&T, Verizon Announce Transparency Reports in 2014

One by one, the telecommunications giants at the heart of the NSA surveillance scandal are relenting to shareholder pressure and public demands for them to publish reports on government requests for user data. On Friday Verizon and AT&T announced their intent to begin producing transparency repor...

New Zealand Government Forcing Internet Companies and Network Operators to provide Interception capability

In August the New Zealand has passed a bill that radically expands the powers of The Government Communications Security Bureau GCSB, an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government, equivalent of the National Security Agency NSA. The bill demands the companies and other network operators lik...

New Zealand Government Forcing Internet Companies and Network Operators to provide Interception capability

In August the New Zealand has passed a bill that radically expands the powers of The Government Communications Security Bureau GCSB, an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government, equivalent of the National Security Agency NSA. The bill demands the companies and other network operators lik...

Phone Hack Could Block Messages, Calls on GSM Networks

By tweaking the firmware on certain kinds of phones, a hacker could make it so other phones in the area are unable to receive incoming calls or SMS messages, according to research presented at the USENIX Security Symposium earlier this month. The hack involves modifying the baseband processor on...

FBI using malware to turn your Android into surveillance device for Spying

It's not the new facts that the FBI has used hacking methods in the past to spy on suspected criminals, including keyloggers and remotely turning on the microphones in mobile phones, in order to spy on suspected criminals. Computer viruses and spyware are an unavoidable part of life. You can...

Israel's Verint Systems get a contract from Indian government for interception program

Soon in December this year, India’s new surveillance program - Centralized Monitoring System CMS will be able to analyze all telecommunications and Internet communications in India by the government and its agencies. This means that everything we say or text over the phone, write, post or browse...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: nodejs-asn1-0.1.11-3.fc18

nodejs-asn1 is a library for encoding and decoding Abstract Syntax Notation One ASN.1 datatypes in pure JavaScript. ASN.1 is is a standard and notation that describes rules and structures for representing, encoding, transmitting, and decoding data in telecommunications and computer networking...

Telecom Italia Cookie Handling vulnerability allows hackers to hijack email accounts

A cookie is a piece of data that is issued by a server in an HTTP response and stored for future use by the HTTP client. Quite simply, a cookie is a small text file that is stored by a browser on the user’s machine. Cookies are plain text; they contain no executable code. The client then...

Scripps Reporters Accused of Hacking Lifeline Data Breach

Investigative reporters for the Scripps news service have been threatened with legal action after informing a telecommunications company that confidential data on tens of thousands of applicants was available on the Internet. The reporters were said to be looking into companies participating in...

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...

New Verizon Marketing Initiative May Violate Users' Privacy

Verizon has drawn the ire of its customers and privacy advocates this week because a new initiative launched by the telecom company may violate users’ privacy. A new marketing program dubbed Precision Market Insights extracts information about Verizon’s customers on Android and iOS platforms...

Millions of Mobile Phone Users' Data Leaked in South Korea Scam

Two men have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly leaking the information of almost nine million of the nation’s mobile phone users, including details of the users’ monthly plans, according to a report issued by the Korea National Police Agency’s KNPA Cyber Terror Response Center CTRC over...

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department Andrew James Miller, a 23-year-old resident of Devon, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of access device fraud, according to a statement issued by the...

Pennsylvania Man Indicted For Hack of Department of Energy Network

A Pennsylvania man was arrested yesterday after a Massachusetts grand jury issued a four-count indictment alleging that he hacked into computer networks belonging to the U.S. Department of Energy DoE and the University of Massachusetts and tried to sell access to a DoE supercomputer for $50,000 t...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

Use VoIP – or Copper

Google Voice is a free VOIP service that can be used to create “throw away” voice accounts for travelers. Having your conversations handled on Google’s infrastructure also provides a measure of security over foreign telecommunications networks, which – depending on the country – could cooperating...