Data Breach Exposes Customer Payment Card Information

Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU announced yesterday that a data breach may have exposed the credit and debit card information of an unknown number of its customers at various grocery store locations in more than 18 states. Behind Kroger’s, Albertsons is the second largest grocery store...

Leahy Introduces Bill to End Bulk Call Record Collection

Sen. Patrick Leahy has introduced an updated, tougher version of the USA FREEDOM Act that would end the bulk collection of data under Section 215 of FISA and also would require the appointment of a panel of special legal advocates who would represent the interests of individual privacy and civil...

Mastery OA 2011-2013 pass to kill GETSHELL-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Statement: This program applied to a lot of government agencies, educational institutions, as well as the large stream companiesChina Telecom, etc.! Please after reading this don't try to for any use of the program website destruction attack invasion, etc... I made this post purely technical...

ICS Malware Found on Vendors' Update Installers

Malware targeting industrial control systems has infected the update installers belonging to three known industrial control vendors, according to an advisory from the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT. The Havex remote access Trojan RAT is targeting vendors via...

House Amendment Limits Funding for NSA Surveillance

The House of Representatives last night overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act that would cut funding for two programs that grant intelligence agencies access to the private data and communications of U.S. citizens. The amendment shows that Congress is...

Vodafone Reveals Some Governments Have Direct Access to Their Data Centers

Vodafone, the world’s second-largest mobile carrier with more than 400 million customers around the world has issued its first "Law Enforcement Disclosure Report", reveals that the governments in some of the countries it operates, have direct access to its network allowing them to listen to all...

NIST Seeking Public Comment on SHA-3 Crypto Algorithm

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is inviting the public to analyze and comment on its Secure Hash Algorithm-3 SHA-3, the latest iteration of cryptographic hash functions endorsed and published by the U.S. standards agency in order to protect the integrity of electronic...

Executive Agencies Pass on New Cybersecurity Regulations

Three Executive Branch federal agencies crucial to critical infrastructure protection will be allowed to continue to voluntarily assess cyber risk, rather than force the development and implementation of additional regulations. The White House yesterday released its conclusions as they relate to...

IETF To Mitigate Pervasive Monitoring In Future Protocols

The Internet Engineering Task Force IETF has defined pervasive monitoring, otherwise known as unwarranted surveillance and analysis of Internet traffic and even the subversion of cryptographic keys, as an attack and wants future versions of IETF-sponsored protocols to be designed to mitigate it...

OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug Exploited Before This Week?

Bruce Schneier stood on the Source Boston keynote stage yesterday and used the word “ginormous” to describe the severity of the OpenSSL heartbleed bug. “My guess is that when heartbleed became public, the top 20 governments in the world started exploiting it immediately,” Schneier said. That’s...

Unbreakable Encryption inspired by Human Biology

When we talk about security, only one thing cames to our mind – ENCRYPTION. Encryption of our online messages, encryption of our emails, encryption of our voice call, encryption of our every personal data and communication that we have to keep away from cybercriminals and, if I am not wrong, also...

Clapper: NSA Queries Databases for Information on U.S. Persons

UPDATE–The NSA searches the data it collects incidentally on Americans, including phone calls and emails, during the course of terrorism investigations. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, confirmed the searches in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, the first time that such actions hav...

Former Church Committee Members See Need for New Group to Investigate NSA

In a letter sent to President Obama and members of Congress, former members and staff of the Church Committee on intelligence said that the revelations of the NSA activities have caused “a crisis of public confidence” and encouraged the formation of a new committee to undertake “significant and...

Agent.btz Malware May Have Served as Starting Point for Red October, Turla

Researchers looking into the recently uncovered Turla, or Snake, cyber espionage campaign have discovered some similarities connecting it to older pieces of malware such as Agent.btz, the worm that several years ago infected U.S. military networks and eventually caused the Department of Defense t...

Government Surveillance Could Targeted Automated Updates

SAN FRANCISCO – As more Web-based services are encrypted, privacy advocates are concerned the next wave of aggressive surveillance activity could target automated update services that essentially provide Internet companies root access to machines. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the...

Boeing launches Ultra-Secure 'Black' Smartphone that has Self-Destruct Feature

Looking for a Secure Smartphone? World's biggest Aerospace company - Boeing is finally close to the launch of its high-security Android Smartphone, called "Boeing Black H8V-BLK1", primarily designed for secure communication between Governmental agencies and their contractors. Encrypted email,...

Bruce Schneier on Surveillance and Trust

Dennis Fisher talks with Bruce Schneier about the differences between bulk and targeted surveillance, the most concerning NSA revelations and making surveillance more expensive for intelligence agencies. Download: digitalunderground145.mp3...

Silent Circle's Blackphone - Privacy and Security Focused Smartphone for $629

Earlier this year encrypted communications firm Silent Circle and Spanish Smartphone maker Geeksphone announced a privacy-focused encrypted Smartphone called 'Blackphone' and today the company has revealed it as 'Mobile World Congress' in Barcelona. The Blackphone titled as, “world’s first...

New APT Campaign Dubbed The Mask Called Most Sophisticated Seen to Date

PUNTA CANA–A group of high-level, nation-state attackers has been targeting government agencies, embassies, diplomatic offices and energy companies with a cyber-espionage campaign for more than five years that researchers say is the most sophisticated APT operation they’ve seen to date. The attac...

'Chaos Computer Club' filed criminal complaint against German government Over Mass Spying

After the revelation of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we all very well knew the impact of it on the world, but nobody would have estimated that the impact will be so worst. The revelation, not only defaced NSA, but also its counterpart GCHQ, and various other governments which were servin...