Cryptoseal VPN Service shuts down over legal concerns after Lavabit case

Yet another American Internet privacy service has bitten the dust, prompted by fears about broad government surveillance demands. CryptoSeal, a Virtual private network VPN based in California has decided to shutter its privacy-conscious service rather than hand over its encryption keys to the U.S...

Apple's iOS 7 Update Fixes 80 Security Bugs

We are one day in and Apple’s sleek new mobile operating system, iOS 7, has been dissected to death – the colors, the similarities to Android’s OS, the amount of time it took some users to download the update from Apple’s servers. Those talking points aside, the update also brought a slew of bug...

Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down under U.S. Government Pressure

Texas-based Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down for reasons linked to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Feds want to Lavabit demanding access to Ed Snowden's email. Lavabit refused! Snowden was using the Lavabit service while holed-up in the Moscow airpor...

Snowden : Seven Private Telecom Companies giving unlimited access to British spy agency

The latest release from Edward Snowden shows that the Vodafone, BT, Verizon and some other total seven Private Telecom Companies have been secretly collaborating with the British spy agency, GCHQ and giving unlimited access to the details of phone calls, emails and Facebook entries. Another leak...

FreeBSD : gnupg -- side channel attack on RSA secret keys (80771b89-f57b-11e2-bf21-b499baab0cbe)

A Yarom and Falkner paper reports : Flush+Reload is a cache side-channel attack that monitors access to data in shared pages. In this paper we demonstrate how to use the attack to extract private encryption keys from GnuPG. The high resolution and low noise of the Flush+Reload attack enables a sp...

BlackBerry Refutes Claim Private Email Passwords Sent to RIM

BlackBerry is refuting a claim made by a German researcher that private email credentials are sent by the new BlackBerry 10 mobile devices to the company without consent, possibly in the clear, and that they’re also stored without permission. Frank Rieger said that when users enter their POP/IMAP...

Millions of Phonebook records stolen from Truecaller Database

TrueCaller, a popular app built by a Swedish company and world's largest collaborative phone directory compromised by Syrian Electronic Army hackers. Truecaller was running an outdated version 3.5.1 of blogging software WordPress for its web interface and there are millions of Phonebook records...

Edward Snowden, whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance Program leak

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. He's a high school dropout who worked his way into the most secretiv...

California Considers Pushing Data Disclosure Envelope Again

California, which set the standard for data breach notifications nationwide, is again seeking to set a precedent by becoming the first state in the nation to require companies upon request disclose to California consumers the data they’ve collected and to whom it was shared during the past year...

Evernote Compromised, But Says No User Data Affected

Evernote, the online service that enables users to store and sync all kinds of data across multiple devices, has become the latest major Web property to suffer a serious intrusion. The company said on Saturday that attackers had compromised some user information, including email addresses and...

Twitter Complied with 69% of US Government Requests for Account Data

Government requests for user account information made to Twitter pale in comparison to the number made to Google, but nonetheless, the number is on the rise according to Twitter’s Transparency Report, released today. Twitter’s report said government requests are generally made in conjunction with...

Researcher: Nokia HTTPs Traffic Proxied, Data Stored in Clear Text

Nokia mobile devices redirect Web requests to Nokia-owned proxy servers where header information including credentials are stored in clear text, putting anything from banking sessions to social media accounts at risk, a researcher claims. India-based researcher Gaurang Pandya, an infrastructure...

FTC Launches Investigations into Mobile Apps for Kids

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it’s launching “non-public investigations” to determine if mobile application providers are violating federal laws by collecting information on children without their parents’ permission. A report indicates almost 60 percent 235 of the children-centric...

Small Medical Offices Biggest Risk to Patient Data Security, Privacy

Small physician practices, much like their small commercial business counterparts, have been the primary source of health care related data breaches, according to an analysis of breaches from 2009 to October 2012 released today by the Health Information Trust Alliance HITRUST. These smaller medic...

Facebook Enabling HTTPS by Default for North American Users

Facebook this week will begin turning on secure browsing be default for its millions of users in North America. The change will make HTTPS the default connection option for all Facebook sessions for those users, a shift that gives them a good baseline level of security and will help prevent some...

New Verizon Marketing Initiative May Violate Users' Privacy

Verizon has drawn the ire of its customers and privacy advocates this week because a new initiative launched by the telecom company may violate users’ privacy. A new marketing program dubbed Precision Market Insights extracts information about Verizon’s customers on Android and iOS platforms...

Fedora Update for mcrypt FEDORA-2012-13656

Check for the Version of mcrypt OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for mcrypt FEDORA-2012-13656 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Trend Micro Interscan Messaging Security Suite - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Cross-Site Request Forgery

Trend Micro Interscan Messaging Security Suite - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Cross-Site Request Forgery Exploit Title: Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite Stored XSS and CSRF Date: 13/09/2012 Exploit Author: modpr0be modpr0beatspentera.com Vendor Homepage: http://www.trendmicro.com...

Trend Micro Interscan Messaging Security Suite - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting / Cross-Site Request Forgery

Exploit Title: Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite Stored XSS and CSRF Date: 13/09/2012 Exploit Author: modpr0be modpr0beatspentera.com Vendor Homepage: http://www.trendmicro.com Software Link: http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/interscan/IMSSv7.1Win1394.zip Version:...

Google Building Privacy Red Team

Google, which has come under fire for years for its privacy practices and recently settled a privacy related case with the Federal Trade Commission that resulted in a $22.5 million fine, is building out a privacy “red team”, a group of people charged with finding and resolving privacy risks in th...