26 Android Phone Models Shipped with Pre-Installed Spyware

Bought a brand new Android Smartphone? Don't expect it to be a clean slate. A new report claims that some rogue retailers are selling brand-new Android smartphones loaded with pre-installed software. Security firm G Data has uncovered more than two dozens of Android smartphones from popular...

Government Asks for Security Community's Help on Technical Issues

LAS VEGAS–Washington is looking for a few good hackers. Politicians and policymakers in the United States generally are not thought of as being the most technically savvy lot. It’s a reputation that’s well-earned in some cases, with some politicians boasting about their inability to use email and...

DHS Raises Privacy Concerns With Senate Cyber Threat Sharing Bill

A major information-sharing bill that’s in the Senate right now would allow private organizations to share threat data with any government agency, something that the Department of Homeland Security says could have severe privacy implications and cause confusion and inefficiencies inside the feder...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID16743: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on July 16, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 40020 First Published: 2015 July 17 21:51 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID16743 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Java Zero-day vulnerability exploited in the Wild

Really a bad weekend for Internet users. Three previously unknown critical zero-day vulnerabilities were revealed in Adobe’s Flash Player over the weekend, thanks to Hacking team data Breach in which 400GB of internal data were leaked over the Internet. Now, a new zero-day vulnerability has been...

Hacking Team data discovered the second gold Flash 0day vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Hacking Team is an Italian company specializing in surveillance technology hacking team and the company, was due to the government and intelligence agencies, the sale of spyware and be sued. Karma the final cycle, the company last week was the hack attack, leaked nearly 400GB of data, which in...

Reddit to Move to HTTPS-Only

In the two years since the details of the NSA’s deep penetration of the Internet infrastructure began to emerge, there has been a major movement afoot among Web companies to encrypt more and more of their resources and services. The latest large property to make this move is Reddit, which by the...

Amazon Transparency Report Shows Few Requests For User Data

Amazon has released its first transparency report, and for a company as large as Amazon, there is surprisingly little in the way of detail or explanation in the report. The company reported that it received 813 subpoenas, 25 search warrants, and 0-249 national security requests. Of the 813...

Spy Agencies Hijack Google Play Store to Install Spyware on Smartphones

I have an Android phone with a five different gmail accounts configured in it. But what if any one of them get compromised via phishing, malware or any other way? The Hacker would be able to access my Google account and obviously Google Play Store account too, which allows anyone to install any...

President Urged to Reject Mandatory Backdoors

One-off opposition to calls on Congress from FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers to draft a legal framework that would enable law enforcement to access encrypted communication has been scattered at best. Experts have taken to their own forums to voice opposition to the...

UK Government Rewrites Laws to Let GCHQ Hack Into Computers Legally

The UK Government has quietly changed the Anti-Hacking Laws quietly that exempt GCHQ, police, and other electronic intelligence agencies from criminal prosecution for hacking into computers and mobile phones and carrying out its controversial surveillance practices. The details of the changes wer...

Anonymous Hackers Target Israeli Websites and Leak Credentials

The infamous hacking group Anonymous that vowed an 'Electronic Holocaust' against Israel and promised to 'erase Israel from cyberspace' on 7th April, managed to launch a cyber attack, beginning Tuesday morning. In a spooky video "message to Israel" posted on YouTube March 4, Anonymous declared...

CIA Has Been Hacking iPhone and iPad Encryption Security

Security researchers at the Central Intelligence Agency CIA have worked for almost a decade to target security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple devices in order to break the system. Citing the top-secret documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept blog reporte...

Gemalto Officials Say SIM Infrastructure Not Compromised

Despite leaked documents from the NSA showing otherwise, officials at Gemalto on Wednesday said the company has found no evidence that its SIM card infrastructure was compromised several years ago by the NSA and GCHQ. The company identified a handful of what it called sophisticated attacks in the...

Regin Cyberespionage Malware Platform Modules Disclosed

The Regin malware platform used to steal secrets from government agencies, banks and GSM network operators caught the attention of security experts who called it one of the most advanced attack platforms that has been studied, surpassing Flame, Duqu, even Stuxnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab sai...

Experts Question Legality of Use of Regin Malware by Intel Agencies

The disclosure of the Regin APT malware campaign this week has spurred much speculation about the source of the attack, with many experts pointing the finger at either the NSA or GCHQ, the British spy agency. Though security researchers involved in uncovering the attack have remained mum on the...

OnionDuke APT Malware served through Tor Network

The malicious Russian Tor exit node, which was claimed to be patching binary files, is actually distributing a malware program to launch cyber-espionage attacks against European government agencies. The group behind the rogue Tor exit node had likely been infecting files for more than a year,...

“Bleeding heart”vulnerability before the announcement may have been government agencies use-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

“Bleeding heart”vulnerability is already in the history of the Internet the most serious defects. However, the new study showed that“heart bleed”vulnerability in April broke before, there is no evidence that the heartbleed vulnerability has been used by hackers to large-scale use.“ Bleeding...

Treasure Map — Five Eyes Surveillance Program to Map the Entire Internet

The National Security Agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ, gained secret access to the German telecom companies’ internal networks, including Deutsche Telekom and Netcologne, in an effort to “map the entire Internet — any device, anywhere, all the time.” As reported by German news publicatio...

ICREACH — NSA's Secret Google-Like Search Engine for Metadata Analysis

The United States National Security Agency NSA is using a massive information sharing platform that allows multiple law enforcement agencies to infiltrate more than 850 billion communications records detailing e-mails, phone calls, instant messages, and phone geolocation, according to the...