Documents in Long-Running Yahoo FISC Challenge Case Published

During a long-running secret dispute between Yahoo and government officials over the constitutionality of orders from the federal government to turn over data belonging to Yahoo users, the company was facing fines of $250,000 for refusing to comply with the order. The revelation is contained in a...

CVE-2014-0351

Fortinet FortiOS versions affected: FortiOS before 4.3.16 and 5.x before 5.0.8. The FortiManager service allows anonymous cipher suites, enabling a man‑in‑the‑middle to read or tamper traffic. According to FG-IR-14-006, this vulnerability (CVE-2014-0351) can also impact FortiManager communication...

Embedded Device Security, BadUSB, Car Hacking at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS — At the risk of diving headfirst into the Internet of Things fray, embedded device security emerged as a shiny new penny during last week’s Black Hat and DEF CON festivities. Firmware is the new hacker black, and everything from USB sticks, to home routers, to automobiles is in play fo...

Google Drive Vulnerability Leaks Users' Private Data

Another privacy issue has been discovered in Google Drive which could have led sensitive and personal information stored on the cloud service exposed to unauthorized parties. The security flaw has now patched by Google, but its discovery indicates that the vulnerability of cloud data when accesse...

anaconda clipper 3.3 - Directory Traversal vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2512/info Clipper is a headline-gathering tool from Anaconda! Partners which, in certain versions, is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks. By including '/../' sequences in requested URLs, an attacker can cause the...

Tencent a certain activity a leak a large number of user address information-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Friends through QQ sent me to one of the activities:“there is no free lunch, but for Breakfast you can have! I was participating in yinlu good porridge road free good Breakfast apply for activities, the same address apply for the number up to 2 0 people, Homo habilis hand is a free good Breakfast...

Debian DSA-2934-1 : python-django - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Django, a high-level Python web development framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2014-0472 Benjamin Bach discovered that Django incorrectly handled dotted Python paths when using the revers...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2934-1] python-django security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2934-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso May 19, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Health and Fitness Apps Poor at Protecting Privacy FTC Says

A recent study conducted by the Federal Trade Commission examined 12 mobile health and fitness apps and found them sending users’ personal information to 76 different third parties. Jah-Juin Ho, an attorney in the FTC’s Mobile Technology Unit shared the research yesterday during a seminar regardi...

Than imagined more terror! OpenSSL“effort”vulnerability in-depth analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author: yaoxi original source http://blog.wangzhan.360.cn/ Recently, OpenSSL broke this year's most serious security vulnerability in the hacker community is named“heart bleed”vulnerability. 3 6 0 site Guard security team of the vulnerability analysis, the vulnerability is not only related to htt...

LinkedIn Sends Cease-and-Desist to Sell Hack Plug-In Maker

UPDATE: The makers of the controversial Sell Hack browser plug-in responded this afternoon to a cease-and-desist order from LinkedIn and confirmed their extension no longer works on LinkedIn pages and that all of the publicly visible data it had processed from LinkedIn profiles has been deleted...

Privacy Groups Seek to Halt Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp

The appeal of WhatsApp, the cross-platform mobile messaging app recently acquired by Facebook for a stunning $19 billion price tag, was that it kept to its promise of not collecting user information that would be converted to ad revenue. The acquisition by Facebook, however, likely changes that...

Why You need to Stop using WhatsApp?

If you haven’t heard by now, Facebook just made its biggest move ever, buying the messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth some $19 billion. That’s 19 times what Facebook paid for Instagram two years ago. The WhatsApp Service run by the team of just 32 engineers, handles more than 50 Billion...

Tech Giants Update Transparency Reports with FISA Requests

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn wasted little time in disclosing what they could about requests for customer data made under the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. One week after the Justice Department eased a gag order on reporting of FISA requests, the five tech giant...

Microsoft launching 'Transparency Center' for Source code integrity Check

Last Friday at the 50th Munich Security Conference, Microsoft announced to launch 'Transparency centers' around the World, where government customers will be able to verify the source code of Microsoft’s products and can confirm that there are no backdoors. The recent chain of scandals over US...

Gag Order Eased on NSA surveillance Transparency Reporting

A gag order has been eased that prevented technology and telecommunications companies from reporting requests for customer data made under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA. The move comes on the heels of announced surveillance reforms by President Obama on Jan. 17. Obama, during an...

'123456' giving tough competition to 'password' in Worst 25 Passwords of 2013

123456, password, 12345678, qwerty… or abc123, How many of you have your password one of these??? I think quite a many of you. Even after countless warnings and advices given to the users by many security researchers, people are continuously using a weak strength of password chains. After observi...

Hack or attempt to Hack, you may face 20 years in prison

The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman 'Patrick Leahy' reintroduced a revamped version of the "Personal Data Privacy and Security Act" for tough criminal penalties for hackers, that he originally authored in 2005. During last Christmas Holidays, a massive data breach had occurred at the shopping...

Yahoo Mail turns on HTTPS encryption by default to protect users

After the release of NSA Secret spying over Internet communications, I am expecting from all tech companies to make surveillance significantly harder. Yahoo has HTTPS encryption support since late 2012, but users had to opt in to use the feature. Documents revealed by the Edward Snowden shows tha...

Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple

One of the key tenets of the argument that the National Security Agency and some lawmakers have constructed to justify the agency’s collection of phone metadata is that the information it’s collecting, such as phone numbers and length of call, can’t be tied to the callers’ names. However, some...