CVE-2017-9571

The CVE-2017-9571 entry concerns the Citizens Community Bank ccb-mobile-banking/id610030469 iOS app 3.0.1, which does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof HTTPS servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate. Documen...

CVE-2017-9569

CVE-2017-9569 affects the Citizens Bank (TX) cbtx-on-the-go/id892396102 iOS app version 3.0.0, which does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers. This permits a network-based attacker to perform a MITM and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate. Root cause: missing TLS cer...

CVE-2017-9563

CVE-2017-9563 affects the iOS app for First Citizens Community Bank (fccb/id809930960) version 3.0.1. The issue is that the app does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, allowing a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate. E...

Misuse of Language: 'Cyber'

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributors are Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter. The terms “cyber war” and “cyber weapon” are thrown around casually, often with little thought to their...

Personal Data of 50 Million Turkish Citizens Leaked Online

Personal details of nearly 50 Million Turkish citizens, including the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have been compromised and posted online in a massive security breach. A database, which contains 49,611,709 records, appeared on the website of an Icelandic group on Monday, offering...

Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS - Certificates or keys found, Corrupted files, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Bike Citizens - Bicycle GPS published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Obama Encryption Policy: White House Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data

After the revelations that Whistleblower Edward Snowden made about the United States National Security Agency NSA, the U.S. citizens are in need of more transparent digital security. The Citizens of the United States have appealed to the Obama Administration through a campaign for rejecting any...

German Spy-Agency Trades Citizens' Metadata in Exchange for NSA's Xkeyscore

This is Really Insane!! Germany's top intelligence agency handed over details related to German citizen metadata just in order to obtain a copy of the National Security Agency's Main XKeyscore software, which was first revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013. According to the new documents obtained by...

FBI Officially Blames North Korea in Sony Hacks

The FBI announced today that it has gathered enough evidence to say with certainty that the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is in fact responsible for recent intrusions into the networks of Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE. This fact was all but officially stated yesterday...

South Korean Data Breach Compromises 27 Million

A data breach in South Korea appears to have impacted as many as 27 million citizens, roughly 70 percent of the nation’s population. Authorities with the South Jeolla Provincial Police Agency announced late last week that it had apprehended a 24-year-old, known simply as Kim, in addition to 15...

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...

Glenn Greenwald to Publish Names of US citizens that NSA Spied On Illegally

Two weeks ago, it was revealed that NSA has been reportedly intercepting and accessing routers, servers, and other computer networking hardware to plant data gathering “backdoors” and other spywares before they were exported and delivered to the international customers. Now, the journalist Glenn...

Dropbox Updates Privacy Policy in Response to Surveillance

The online storage service Dropbox has amended its privacy policy at least in part to better address increased concerns regarding how the service perceives, responds to, and handles government requests for user-data. The new government data requests principles come as part of broader and fairly...

Russian hackers stole Personal details of 54 million Turkish Citizens

The Publicized Hacks, Cyber attacks and Data breaches continue to increase, and the majority of attacks are from outsiders. Recently, Some unknown Russian hackers have reportedly stolen Personal details of nearly 54 million Turkish citizens, about 70% of the whole Turkish population. According to...

Surveillance Transparency Act Would Limit NSA Spying

There have been countless hearings in both the House and Senate since the Snowden leaks began in June, and there seems to be no end in sight. The latest committee to get in on the action was the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, which held a...

NSA Director Alexander Denies Spying on Europeans

Intelligence officials appearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday denied collecting the phone records of citizens in France, Spain and Italy, as recently reported by media outlets in those countries. “The assertions made by Le Monde of France, El Mundo of Spa...

Hacker sold personal data of 4 million US citizens online; risk of potential Identity Theft

An illegal service that sells personal data of US citizens online, which can then be used for identity theft hacked into the networks of three major data brokers and Hacker stole their databases. Cyber attack has given them access to Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and other personal...

FAQ: The NSA Metadata and PRISM Programs

The details of extensive government surveillance of U.S. citizens through collection of cell phone metadata, and email and Internet activities through the PRISM program has raised a lot of questions and caused quite a bit of confusion about what’s actually happening. To help users sort through th...

'Good to Know' campaign : Google Collaborates with Citizens Advice Bureau for Online Safety

'Good to Know' campaign : Google Collaborates with Citizens Advice Bureau for Online Safety Google's first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau. It covers topics such as choosing a password, scam emails and using two factor...

Anonymous Open Letter to Citizens of United States of America !

Anonymous Open Letter to Citizens of United States of America ! Just Now another Open Letter by Anonymous hackers released on Twitter m as below : Dear US Citizens, We, Anonymous, would like to offer you, America, the opportunity to join and support our movement.We are a group that formed on the...