LastPass Patches Ormandy Remote Compromise Flaw

LastPass has patched a vulnerability in its Firefox add-on found by Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy that allows attackers complete remote compromise of the password manager, . The divisive Ormandy submitted a bug report on Tuesday to LastPass after a series of tweets hinting at serio...

Rights Groups Call for More Change Two Years After Snowden Revelations Began

It’s been two years now since the first stories about NSA surveillance capabilities began to appear, and the environment has shifted dramatically in that time. Awareness of and resistance to mass surveillance has increased greatly, but the changes to policy and laws that many observers had hoped...

Detekt — Free Anti-Malware Tool To Detect Govt. Surveillance Malware

Human rights experts and Privacy International have launched a free tool allowing users to scan their computers for surveillance spyware, typically used by governments and other organizations to spy on human rights activists and journalists around the world. This free-of-charge anti-surveillance...

Report: Strategic Web Compromises Behind Recent Hack of Amnesty, Others

A recent string of Web site hacks at Amnesty International and other NGOs are evidence of a campaign of cyber espionage directed against human rights orgnaizations, according to a report from The Shadowserver Foundation. In a report on Tuesday, the Foundation said that its members had witnessed a...

Human Rights organisation website Serves Gh0st RAT Trojan

Human Rights organisation website Serves Gh0st RAT Trojan According to the company's Security Labs blog, Amnesty International's United Kingdom website was compromised and hosting the potent Gh0st RAT Trojan earlier this week. Malicious Java code was planted on the site in a bid to push the Gh0st...

Amnesty International Website Compromised, Serving Up Gh0st RAT

Amnesty International’s United Kingdom website was compromised and hosting the potent Gh0st RAT Trojan earlier this week, according to research conducted by security firm Websense. According to the company’s Security Labs blog, visitors to the site over two days this week, May 8 and 9, may have h...

In Possible Targeted Attack, Amnesty International Web Site Found Serving Malware

Amnesty International’s United Kingdom website was compromised late last week and was being used to exploit a known Java runtime environment hole on machines belonging to unwitting visitors to the site, according to Barracuda Labs researcher, Paul Royal. Citing historical data, Royal claims that...

Amnesty International Site Found Hosting Malware, IE Zero Day

Researchers at security firm Websense have found that Amnesty International’s Hong Kong site, amnesty.org.hk, is serving up a cocktail of malware that includes last week’s Internet Explorer 0-day. Visitors to the human rights organization’s site operating versions 6 and 7 of IE are being targeted...