British spy agency has secret access to Global Internet and telephones

The Britain's spy agency GCHQ is running an online eavesdropping operation that has gained secret access to more than 200 optical fiber cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls. The existence of the program has been disclosed in documents shown to the Guardian by the NSA...

Phil Zimmermann on Mobile Encryption and Privacy

Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer and PGP inventor Phil Zimmermann about the specter of mobile eavesdropping, his new venture Silent Circle and how the threat landscape has changed in recent years. Download: digitalunderground110 Related: Phil Zimmermann: ‘We Really, Really Don’t Have the...

Phil Zimmermann: 'We Really, Really Don't Have the Keys'

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico–Phil Zimmermann has seen more changes in the the threat landscape in his career than he may care to remember. The inventor of the PGP encryption software and one of the key movers in the crypto wars of the early 1990s, Zimmermann is back in the game now with a new mobile...

Yahoo Makes SSL Option Available For Mail Users

Following a trail cut several years ago by Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has now given users of its webmail service the option of using an SSL connection for their sessions. The HTTPS option is not enabled by default, but users can turn it on with a couple of clicks. Yahoo has been slow to make the...

Cisco VoIP phone vulnerability allow eavesdropping remotely

Cui, a fifth year grad student from the Columbia University Intrusion Detection Systems Lab and co-founder of Red Balloon Security, has demonstrated an attack on common Cisco-branded Voice over IP VoIP phones that could easily eavesdrop on private conversations remotely. The vulnerability Cui...

Twitter 5.0 Eavesdropping Proof Of Concept

Twitter App vulnerable to eavesdropping Vendor: Twitter Inc. Product: Twitter 5.0 Tested on: iPhone 4 iOS 6.0 Vendor notification: Nov 10, 2012. Risk level: Low Researcher: Carlos Reventlov Link: http://reventlov.com/advisories/twitter-app-vulnerable-to-partial-mitm The Twitter 5.0 app for the...

UK Intelligence recruiting brilliant minds for eavesdropping social networks

Government eavesdropping and security agency GCHQ is developing new tools to sift through them for nuggets of useful data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest. All of these are the source of valuable intelligence that the UK's intelligence agencies want to know about. During a vis...

German Police eavesdropping Facebook, Gmail, Skype Conversations

An eavesdropping tool allegedly used by the German government to intercept Skype calls is full of security problems and may violate a ruling by the country's constitutional court, according to a European hacker club. The information was released as part of a move towards financial transparency. T...

Crisis Trojan Makes Its Way onto Virtual Machines

The Windows version of the Crisis Trojan is able to sneak onto VMware implementations, making it possibly the first malware to target such virtual machines. It also has found a way to spread to Windows Mobile devices. “Many threats will terminate themselves when they find a virtual machine...

Don't blab

If you’re worried that your conversations are being monitored, old fashioned “coded talk” also works to disguise the meaning of your conversations. Asking “how are the kids?” rather than “how’s the progress on our new chip design?” may be enough to throw attackers off the scent. Images via...

Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping

Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping Researchers at a German university claim to have cracked the algorithm that secures satellite phone transmissions. They have broken the encryption of the two main standards used to protect calls from satellite phones, giving them the...

World 1st Hacker exploit communication technology for lulz in1903

World 1st Hacker exploit communication technology for lulz in 1903 New Scientist publish about the first hacker revealing security holes in wireless communication technology in 1903. Nevil Maskelyne was first in a long line of hackers who have exposed and exploited security flaws in communication...

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer...

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer...

$30 Child Toy is enough to hack FBI Radios

$30 Child Toy is enough to hack FBI Radios The portable radios used by many federal law enforcement agents have major security flaws that allowed researchers to intercept hundreds of hours of sensitive traffic sent without encryption over the past two years, according to a new study being release...

Hackers Get Hacked at #Defcon 19 Conference

Hackers Get Hacked at Defcon 19 Conference There are so many ways to get hacked at the world's largest hacker conference. A hacker could bump against your pocket with a card reader that steals your credit card information. Or a hacker might eavesdrop on your Internet traffic through an unsecured...

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt It's the second time Google has blamed a major computer hacking scheme on China . On 1st of June we have Reported that : Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia. This time Google says unknown hackers from Jinan, China, a ci...

Synergy Protocol Information Disclosure Vulnerability (Linux)

This host is installed with Synergy and is prone to information disclosure vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsynergyprotocolinfodiscvulnlin.nasl 7019 2017-08-29 11:51:27Z teissa $ Synergy Protocol Information Disclosure Vulnerability Linux Authors: Sooraj KS Copyright c 2011...

Synergy Protocol Information Disclosure Vulnerability - Linux

Synergy is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Synergy Protocol Information Disclosure Vulnerability - Windows

Synergy is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:synergy-foss:synergy...