Child Porn Suspect Held in Jail for 7 Months for refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives

In Brief A suspect of child pornography possession, Francis Rawls, who is a former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has been in solitary confinement without charges for last seven months and will remain until he complies with a court order forcing him to decrypt his password-protected har...

mktg.act-on.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://mktg.act-on.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/248/p/p-0547/t/page/fm/0?s=%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=prompt%28/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%29%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not...

Microsoft Wins Widespread Support in Privacy Clash With Govt.

Microsoft’s lawsuit against the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails is getting widespread support by privacy advocates. For many, Microsoft’s stance lends an important and powerful voice to ongoing efforts to reform the Electronic...

Apple, Google Faced All Writs Act Orders

The American Civil Liberties Union has dug up more proof that from the get-go the FBI’s attempt to crack open an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook was not just about the one phone. The ACLU found court documents and on Wednesday published an interactive map visualizing...

Google has also been Ordered to Unlock 9 Android Phones

The legal battle between Apple and the FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation over a locked iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters may be over, but the Department of Justice DoJ are back in front of a judge with a similar request. The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU has...

FBI may have found a New Way to Unlock Shooter's iPhone without Apple

There's more coming to the high-profile Apple vs. FBI case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI might not need Apple's assistance to unlock iPhone 5C that belonged to San Bernardino shooter, Syed Rizwan Farook. If you have followed the San Bernardino case closely, you probably know everything...

Apple Counters FBI's Backdoor Demand as Unconstitutional

Apple has matched the Department of Justice’s recent vitriol, by this week calling the FBI’s request for code to help it unlock Syed Farook’s iPhone unconstitutional. Furthermore, Apple in a court filing this week again challenged the validity of the government’s use of the All Writs Act of 1789 ...

Clarke: Precedent-Seeking FBI Won't Ask NSA to Unlock Phone

The National Security Agency’s silence in the Apple-FBI story is probably not so surprising. But that hasn’t stopped people from dragging the NSA’s name into the conversation. The latest to do so is Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism chair under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton...

DOJ Calls Apple's Rhetoric 'Corrosive' and 'False'

The Justice Department took off the gloves in its latest volley against Apple and its refusal to comply with a court order to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone. “Apple deliberately raised technological barriers that now stand between a lawful warrant and an iPhone containing evidence related to the...

Crypto Panel Experts Clash on FBI-Apple Debate

SAN FRANCISCO—One would think that six of the smartest security people on the planet could come to some sort of collective conclusion on the FBI-Apple debate. But that wasn’t the case today during the annual Cryptographers’ Panel at RSA Conference. The debate over whether Apple should assist the...

New York Judge Rules FBI Can't Force Apple to Unlock iPhone

Apple - 1; The FBI - 0 Apple Won a major court victory against the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI in an ongoing legal battle similar to San Bernardino. In a New York case, a federal magistrate judge has ruled in favor of Apple, rejecting the U.S. government’s request to force Apple to help...

Apple Files Motion to Vacate Court Order to Unlock iPhone

It took Apple nine words to make its point: “This is not a case about one isolated iPhone.” Apple on Thursday filed a motion to vacate a court order mandating it assist the FBI in unlocking an iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino shooter. Apple said the order violates its First Amendment...

Apple Attorney Reveals Dozen Other iPhone Requests from FBI

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s major argument in objecting to the FBI’s request to assist in unlocking San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone 5c is the precedent it would set in doing so. As it turns out, Cook had a leg to stand on when he defiantly objected to a federal magistrate’s order last week...

15-year-old Teenage Hacker Arrested Over FBI Computer Hack

Another 15-year-old teenager got arrested from the land of cakes, Scotland, by British Police for breaking into the FBI Systems on 16th February. Under the Britain’s anti-hacking law, Computer Misuse Act 1990, the boy has been arrested for his role in hacking and unauthorized access to the digita...

ENCRYPT Act of 2016 — Proposed Bill Restricts States to Ban Encryption

The last year's ISIS-linked terror attacks in Paris and California has sparked debate on Encryption, and the intelligent agencies started reviving their efforts to weaken encryption on various encrypted products and services. But, there is some Good News! California Congressman and Texas Republic...

General Motors GM Vulnerability Disclosure Program

General Motors’ new vulnerability disclosure program puts it alongside Tesla as the only major automakers with a mechanism for security researchers to report flaws. Unlike Tesla’s program, however, GM’s does not offer a monetary reward. GM launched its program last week via the HackerOne platform...

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 ...

act-on.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.act-on.com/?s=%22%3E%3Csvg%2Fonload%3Dalert%28%2FXSSPOSED%2F%29%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 19.11.2015 Latest check for patch:| 19.11.2015 09:07 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 47525 Google...

15-year-old Boy Arrested in connection with TalkTalk Cyber Attack

The arrest is the first major outcome since TalkTalk – the biggest phone and broadband provider in the UK with more than 4 Million customers – had suffered a serious data breach. The Police Service of Northern Ireland PSNI and the investigating officers from the Metropolitan police's cyber crime...

NSA Says It Will End Access to 215 Records When Authority Ends in November

The National Security Agency says that once its legal authority to conduct Section 215 bulk telephone surveillance ends on Nov. 29, its analysts no longer will be allowed to access the database that holds all of the collected Section 215 records. In May, an appeals court ruled that bulk telephone...