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...

Nepal Telecommunications Authority Hacked by w3bd3f4c3r

Nepal Telecommunications Authority Hacked by w3bd3f4c3r Hacker with name "w3bd3f4c3r" or "T34mT!g3R" today hack into the Nepal Telecommunications Authority website using SQL injection Vulnerability. The Vulnerability Information and screenshot is posted by hacker on pastebin : The Leaked info...

Nepal Telecommunications Authority Hacked by w3bd3f4c3r

Nepal Telecommunications Authority Hacked by w3bd3f4c3r Hacker with name "w3bd3f4c3r" or "T34mT!g3R" today hack into the Nepal Telecommunications Authority website using SQL injection Vulnerability. The Vulnerability Information and screenshot is posted by hacker on pastebin : The Leaked info...

BSNL System Hacked by Pakistan Cyber Army - Users info at risk

BSNL System Hacked by Pakistan Cyber Army - Users info at risk Pakistan Cyber Army claims to hack the BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.- India's No. 1 Telecommunications Company10,000 User information like name, email, phone number and location & BSNL's internal working of VPN ,detail of circuits an...

BSNL System Hacked by Pakistan Cyber Army - Users info at risk

BSNL System Hacked by Pakistan Cyber Army - Users info at risk Pakistan Cyber Army claims to hack the BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.- India's No. 1 Telecommunications Company10,000 User information like name, email, phone number and location & BSNL's internal working of VPN ,detail of circuits an...

Switzerland & Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members

Switzerland & Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members Switzerland & Italian police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested some members of the Legion group Anonymous following a series of raids. The arrests were made by the Polizia postale e delle comunicazioni, or Polizia Postale, which...