NSA misused PRISM - Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying

Before NSA said that they has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency’s authorities, but NSA had violated privacy rules on thousands of occasions. According to documents seen by SPIEGEL, Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency. The US intelligence...

Declassified 2011 FISC Opinion Shows Court Found Some NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional

Newly declassified documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the EFF show that the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2011 declared that the National Security Agency’s techniques for collecting upstream Internet communications was unconstitutional an...

Design/Logic Flaw

The OSIsoft PI Interface for IEEE C37.118 before 1.0.6.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service instance shutdown and data-collection outage via crafted C37.118 configuration packets that trigger an invalid read operation...

CVE-2013-2800

The OSIsoft PI Interface for IEEE C37.118 before 1.0.6.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption or memory corruption, instance shutdown, and data-collection outage via crafted C37.118 configuration packets...

Memory corruption

The OSIsoft PI Interface for IEEE C37.118 before 1.0.6.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption or memory corruption, instance shutdown, and data-collection outage via crafted C37.118 configuration packets...

CVE-2013-2800

The OSIsoft PI Interface for IEEE C37.118 before 1.0.6.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption or memory corruption, instance shutdown, and data-collection outage via crafted C37.118 configuration packets...

CVE-2013-2904

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Document::finishedParsing function in core/dom/Document.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 29.0.1547.57, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an onload event that changes an IFRAME element...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Document::finishedParsing function in core/dom/Document.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 29.0.1547.57, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an onload event that changes an IFRAME element...

CVE-2013-2904

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Document::finishedParsing function in core/dom/Document.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 29.0.1547.57, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an onload event that changes an IFRAME element...

Petition Seeks Removal of Alexander as NSA Director

It has been a rough few months for the National Security Agency, and specifically for its director, Gen. Keith Alexander. The leaks of details of NSA surveillance programs by former contractor Edward Snowden have taken over the news cycle this summer and put the agency’s business out in the open...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Debt Collection Notice Email Messages on August 13, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30400 First Published: 2013 August 13 19:55 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claim to contain a debt collection notice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince...

Gen. Keith Alexander Black Hat Keynote

When Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency and chief of U.S. Cyber Command, agreed to deliver the opening keynote at Black Hat USA 2013, he had no idea that by the time he took the stage many of the NSA’s most secret information-collection programs would be public...

Fedora Update for juk FEDORA-2013-13499

Check for the Version of juk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for juk FEDORA-2013-13499 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of...

Inside the Security Model of BlackBerry 10

LAS VEGAS–The new BlackBerry 10 operating system contains a number of security improvements and upgrades over earlier versions, but there are still some features and functions that an attacker may be able to exploit. The OS also contains a diagnostic tool called QUIP that has the ability to colle...

NSA Director Alexander Defends Surveillance at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS –NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander’s keynote today at Black Hat USA 2013 was a tense confessional, an hour-long emotional and sometimes angry ride that shed some new insight into the spy agency’s two notorious data collection programs, inspired moments of loud applause in support of the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: pairs-4.10.5-1.fc17

Pairs is a collection of games aimed to help the development of preschool children. With these games the child can improve memory, logic, hearing and even reading skills. Each game can have different themes so the child is stimulated with different and new challenges...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: kiriki-4.10.5-1.fc17

Kiriki is an addictive and fun dice game for KDE, designed to be played by as many as six players. Participants have to collect points by rolling five di ce for up to three times per single turn. Each roll generates a specific combination of numbers which the player is free to either accept or...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: juk-4.10.5-1.fc17

Juk is a jukebox, tagger and music collection manager...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: juk-4.10.5-1.fc18

Juk is a jukebox, tagger and music collection manager...

Appropriations Amendment Threatens to Cut Funding for NSA Collection Program

A small group of Congressmen is trying to cut off the funding for the NSA’s widespread collection of phone and Internet records under the “business records” collection provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The provision in FISA that enables law enforcement agencies to get access...