Police Using High-Tech Device to See Through Walls Warrantlessly

We are all aware of the mass surveillance conducted by the government agencies on us. From our phone calls, emails to web activities, chats and social network activities, everything has been interrupted by the law enforcements. And now they have crossed every limits by using a new way to spy on...

Whatsapp Banned Users For Using WhatsApp PLUS App

Are you one of those victims whose WhatsApp app has recently been banned?? Then you must have installed a 3rd-party version of WhatsApp client, like WhatsAppMD or Whatsapp PLUS in your mobile phone for sure. Reportedly after 12 AM IST on 21st January 2015, WhatsApp, the widely popular messaging...

Smartphone Owners Lack Motivation to Adequately Lock Devices

A quarter of smartphone owners don’t lock their devices because they don’t believe they have any data worth protecting. Even more refrain from doing it because they feel like it’s too much of a hassle. That’s at least according to a new study carried out by six researchers, four from the Universi...

Xiaomi Data Breach — "Exposing Xiaomi" Talk Pulled from Hacking Conference

China’s number one — and the world’s 3rd largest — smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, which is trying to make inroads into India’s booming mobile phone market, was found secretly sending users’ personal data, including IMEI numbers, phone numbers and text messages to the web servers back to Beijing...

More Celebrity Photos Leaked — Kim Kardashian and Others Targeted

So far people have not forgotten about the recent celebrity iCloud hacking scandal, a new wave of photographs of celebrities have been leaked in what appears to be the second edition of the massive leak related to the celebrities intimate-images on Internet earlier this month. Among the victims o...

Apple Extends Two-Factor Authentication to iCloud

Apple finally has enabled two-factor authentication for its iCloud storage service, more than a year and a half after the company first turned the protective measure on for iTunes purchases and Apple ID. The extension of 2FA–which Apple calls two-step verification–to iCloud comes two weeks after...

Worldview-3 — Satellite That Could Allow Google and U.S Government to See Your Face from Space

Majority of my articles are related to government spying, privacy and security issues of your online stuffs and also measures that you can adopt in protecting yourself from being spied on. But, your all efforts will soon be of no use - someone is about to secretly track your every footstep. Googl...

Research Shows Increase in Internet Filtering and Usage of FireChat App in Iraq

Researchers at Citizen Lab have taken a close look at the extent of Internet filtering in Iraq, as well as the security of a popular offline chat app used there, and found an increase in the number of services blocked by the government and identified serious privacy and security problems with the...

CVE-2014-2227

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2014-07-23 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39268...

ImageMagick 6.8.8-4 - Local Buffer Overflow (SEH)

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl Exploit Title: ImageMagick 6.8.8-5 - Local Buffer Overflow SEH Date: 2-13-2014 Exploit Author: Mike Czumak Tv3rn1x -- @SecuritySift Vulnerable Software: ImageMagick all versions prior to 6.8.8-5 Software Link:...

Default configuration

The default configuration of EMC RSA BSAFE Toolkits and RSA Data Protection Manager DPM 20130918 uses the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation DualECDRBG algorithm, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging...

Google Play App Permissions Privacy, Security Concerns

Google’s revamped app permissions for Google Play are not being well received by Android users. Reddit threads are rife with adjectives such as “stupid” and “dangerous,” primarily because Google’s attempt to simplify permissions granted to automatically updated applications may in fact expose use...

Microsoft Calls for NSA Surveillance Reforms

On the anniversary of the first news reports on NSA surveillance, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith seized the opportunity to draw a line in the sand with the U.S. government. Smith challenged the government curtail surveillance because it’s hurting business and impaling privacy and civil...

Server: Deserialization of Untrusted Data in core

Due to the deserialization of unstrusted data in core an attacker might be able to delete arbitrary files from the filesystem or executing arbitrary SQL queries. This issue has been found in a widely used third-party library, we have removed the component due to general quality concerns from the...

The Top 3 Security Issues in Federal Cloud Computing

A journalist recently asked me for my top three pressing concerns related to Federal cloud security. Here are a few points I had to offer up...

Snoopy Drone Can Hack Your Smartphones

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVS called Drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. Drones were once used for land surveillance, Delivering Pizza's, then equipped with bombs that changed the way nations conduct war and now these hovering drones are ready to hack your Smartphones...

The NSA and Mark Zuckerberg's Righteous Anger

Mark Zuckerberg is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. Actually, he is going to take it, because we all are going to take it, at least for the foreseeable future. Zuckerberg is upset that the NSA is spying on his users, and even madder that the agency is allegedly using fake...

Secret: SSL Not Enforced

Although by default, all the communication in the Secret web app happens over HTTPS, if this is changed to HTTP, the requests are still normally processed. For example, the request to send a download link to a phone number can be as simple as POST //send-download-link HTTP/1.1 Host: www.secret.ly...

LinkedIn Intro Service to Shut Down March 7

LinkedIn announced on Friday it was shuttering its four-month-old Intro service which stirred up a privacy meltdown shortly after its release in October. Intro was an integrated service for iOS which sat as a proxy between the built-in iOS mail client and the user’s email provider. Intro would...

LinkedIn shutting down its security-plagued INTRO app in Early March

Last October, the social network 'LinkedIn' launched a controversial Smartphone app called 'Intro' that intercepts and route all of your emails through LinkedIn servers to inject LinkedIn profiles of the sender directly into the mails. The app was released for Android, as well as iOS devices. Why...