China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables

Supply chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. The recent focus is on Chinese 5G equipment, but the problem is much broader. This opinion piece looks at undersea communications cables: But now the Chinese conglomerate Huawei Technologies, the leading firm working to deliver 5G telephony...

Hacking Diplomatic Cables Is Expected. Exposing Them Is Not

Spies try to access government communications all the time. But an incident this week tested the limits of what happens when those compromises get discovered...

Design/Logic Flaw

DISPUTED drivers/scsi/libsas/sasscsihost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service ata qc leak by triggering certain failure conditions. NOTE: a third party disputes the relevance of this report because the failure can only occur for physically proximate...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10021

drivers/scsi/libsas/sasscsihost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service ata qc leak by triggering certain failure conditions. NOTE: a third party disputes the relevance of this report because the failure can only occur for physically proximate attackers w...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10021

drivers/scsi/libsas/sasscsihost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service ata qc leak by triggering certain failure conditions. NOTE: a third party disputes the relevance of this report because the failure can only occur for physically proximate attackers w...

Testing HA Failover on NetScaler SD-WAN

Site level HA works in a way independent to the virtual path state of the site with other sites. Meaning if the physical links are down while one appliance is serving as active, then it will be the same case for the standby as well as the same physical link will be used by standby too and hence...

Belgian Telco Belgacom Compromised

A Belgian telecom company that handles some of the undersea cables that carry international voice traffic said Monday that its internal network had been compromised sometime in the last few months and malware had planted on some of its systems. Belgacom said the attack only affected its own...

Australia's Telstra Wiretapping undersea cables from past 12 years for FBI

According to a secret agreement it signed in 2001 with the FBI and US Department of Justice - Telstra, Australia's largest phone company is storing huge volumes of electronic communications it carried between Asia and the US for potential surveillance by US intelligence agencies. The contract was...

Australia’s Telstra Wiretapping undersea cables from past 12 years for FBI

According to a secret agreement it signed in 2001 with the FBI and US Department of Justice - Telstra, Australia’s largest phone company is storing huge volumes of electronic communications it carried between Asia and the US for potential surveillance by US intelligence agencies. The contract was...

NSA Hacks into 3 major Chinese operators to steal millions of SMS Data

Once again NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the truth, that the NSA hacks into China’s mobile operators to steal millions of text messages. Every month Washington come up with new reports and accuse other nations, particularly China, for cyber hacking, but the biggest culprit of such cri...

British spy agency has secret access to Global Internet and telephones

The Britain's spy agency GCHQ is running an online eavesdropping operation that has gained secret access to more than 200 optical fiber cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls. The existence of the program has been disclosed in documents shown to the Guardian by the NSA...

British spy agency has secret access to Global Internet and telephones

The Britain's spy agency GCHQ is running an online eavesdropping operation that has gained secret access to more than 200 optical fiber cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls. The existence of the program has been disclosed in documents shown to the Guardian by the NSA...

Blueprints of Australia's top spy agency headquarters stolen by Chinese hackers

Secret and highly sensitive and $630 million building blueprints outlining the layout of Australia's top spy agency's new headquarters have been stolen by Chinese hackers. According to a report by the ABC's Four Corners, the blueprints included floor plans, communications cabling, server location...

Court: Government Need Not Justify Warrantless Data Requests

A Virginia appeals court on Friday denied a right-to-access order filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir and computer security researchers Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp. The denial confirms ...

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2012

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2012 A spokesman for the Nobel Peace Prize jury says 231 nominations have been submitted for this year's award, with publicly disclosed candidates including WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning may be among the hundreds of...

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack."...

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack."...

Pentagon tightens computer security in wake of WikiLeaks breach !

Top defense and intelligence officials reiterated their commitment to information-sharing at a Senate hearing Thursday, even as they outlined new safeguards to prevent a repeat of the WikiLeaks breach that has led to the release of thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables. T...

HBGary E-mails: DuPont, Other Firms Hit In Aurora Attack

Emails unearthed by the HBGary hack reveal that Chinese hackers compromised the networks of chemical company, DuPont, and more than a dozen others high profile Western firms in late 2009 as part of a wide-scale hack since dubbed “Operation Aurora.” The revelations, gleaned from leaked e-mail,...

Anonymous Hackers announce Operation Italy ( #OPITALY ) on 13.02.2011 at 9am GMT (10.00 italian time)

Anonymous Hackers announce Operation Italy OPITALY on 13.02.2011 at 9am GMT 10.00 italian time Press Release : Operation Iran - Press release by Anonymous Hackers LOIC : Mobile/Js LOIC : Reasons : Cables : Source : Google...