CISPA Returns back, Forget privacy reforms

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act CISPA will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers R-Mich. and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger D-Md. before the US House next week. CISPA would've allowed any company to give away all the data its collected on...

Win $13,500 bounty to hack Kim Dotcom's Mega encryption

Kim Dotcom is offering a bounty of €10,000 approx. US$13,580 to the first person who breaks its newly launched file storage service. Mega's launch last month was meet by criticism from multiple security researchers, Kim Dotcom announced a prize to the hackers last week. Kim tweeted,"Mega's open...

Hunting vulnerabilities in SCADA systems, we are still too vulnerable to cyber attacks

Stuxnet case is considered by security expert the first concrete act of cyber warfare, a malware specifically designed to hit SCADA systems inside nuclear plants in Iran. The event has alerted the international security community on the risks related to the effects of a cyber attack against...

Skype Account Service - Session Token Bypass Vulnerability

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Most Smartphone Users Consider Privacy When Vetting Apps

Cellphone owners now account for 88 percent of the U.S. population, of which some 43 percent say they download applications on their phones. Among these ‘app users,’ 57 percent told the Pew Internet and American Life Project that they have either uninstalled existing applications or made the...

Anonymous Leaks Apple UDIDs Following Alleged Hack of FBI

UPDATE–The Antisec arm of hacktivist group Anonymous published one million unique device identifier numbers, or UDIDs, for Apple devices, including iPhones and iPads, on Monday night. The group alleges the slew of information was swiped from a laptop belonging to the FBI earlier this year. In a...

EFF: New Cybersecurity Bill Better, Still Unnecessary

The controversial Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act has been scrapped and replaced by a new bill that online rights advocates still consider unnecessary, but which they also acknowledge is a vast improvement on the slew of other bills that have cropped up in recent months. Thankfully, the...

Apple Receives NFC Patent, But Takes It Slow with Mobile Payments

Apple was granted a patent on Tuesday by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a Near Field Communications NFC-enabled travel management application, furthering speculation that the company is readying mobile payment technology for future versions of its iPhone product. The Web site...

Wireless Carriers See Spike in Cell Phone Records Requests

Some of the nation’s largest wireless carriers say they last year collectively received some 1.3 million requests from law enforcement for customers’ phone records – a number that continues to rise. The information shared with police includes geolocation information, content of text messages,...

NSA Chief Says Today's Cyber Attacks Amount to 'Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History'

The general in charge of the National Security Agency on Monday said the lack of national cybersecurity leglislation is costing us big and amounting to what he believes is “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” U.S. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander urged politicians to stop stalling on approvi...

Face.com Fixes Flaw to Prevent Facebook and Twitter Hijacks

A significant flaw in the Face.com mobile application KLIK has been fixed to prevent Facebook and Twitter users from having their accounts hijacked. KLIK is a camera app that uses face recognition to tag friends in Facebook photos in real time. It also apparently granted access to KLIK users’...

LinkedIn Investigating Password Leak That Could Affect 6.5 M

UPDATE Professional social networking site LinkedIn announced early Wednesday morning that it was looking into reports of stolen passwords, according to a post on their Twitter page. The tweet substantiates reports by several news outlets that a hacker was able to download the hashed passwords of...

Another Cybersecurity Bill Runs Into Trouble on Capitol Hill

A U.S. Senator’s bill to broaden cybersecurity intelligence gathering is in trouble after other legislators question whether proposed protections comes at the expense of citizens’ privacy. The bill introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman I-CT to strengthen cybersecurity through better public-private...

Mobile Device Adoption Outpacing Security

Some 63 percent of mobile device users are unsure about whether they trust the security of mobile technologies, according to Juniper Network’s Trusted Mobility Index PDF. That lack of certainty is appropriate considering that 30 percent of IT professionals in the study told Juniper Networks that...

CISPA Passes House to a Cacophony of Groans and Cheers

The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act CISPA passed with bipartisan support by a 248-168 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives last night, despite warnings from privacy experts and a growing public outcry. CISPA’s chief supporter and co-sponsor, Mike Rogers R-MI,...

Obama Administration Opposes CISPA As Congress Amends Proposed Law

The Obama Administration joined the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act CISPA debate yesterday when a senior State Department advisor told The Guardian that the White House opposed the controversial bill. CISPA emerged in the wake of the equally controversial Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA...

Homeland Security hacking into gaming consoles to obtain user data

Homeland Security hacking into gaming consoles to obtain user data The U.S. government has hired a California-based company to hack into video game consoles, such as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, to watch criminals, especially child predators, and learn how to collect evidence against them. The U.S...

How The Free Market Fails Privacy-Conscious Consumers

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part podcast with security researcher Chris Soghoian. It’s a truism that the pace of technological change outstrips society’s ability to grasp the impact of that change. For the most part, the consequences of this are benign and the remedies...

CIA Chief : We will Spy on You Through Your TV

CIA Chief : We will Spy on You Through Your TV According to the Central Intelligence Agency, the organization says spies won't have to plant bugs in homes, businesses or other places where they want to spy because of coming advances in computer and Internet technology. The CIA claims that when yo...

Apple Clamps Down, Begins to Reject Apps Looking for UDID Numbers

Facing mounting privacy concerns, Apple has begun to reject mobile applications that require access to an iOS device’s unique device identifier number UDID, according to a report from the Web site Techcrunch. The company announced last summer it would be phasing out UDID numbers with the launch o...