Amazon Transparency Report Shows Few Requests For User Data

Amazon has released its first transparency report, and for a company as large as Amazon, there is surprisingly little in the way of detail or explanation in the report. The company reported that it received 813 subpoenas, 25 search warrants, and 0-249 national security requests. Of the 813...

WAIDPS - Wireless Auditing, Intrusion Detection & Prevention System

WAIDPS is an open source wireless swissknife written in Python and work on Linux environment. This is a multipurpose tools designed for audit penetration testing networks, detect wireless intrusion WEP/WPA/WPS attacks and also intrusion prevention stopping station from associating to access point...

President Urged to Reject Mandatory Backdoors

One-off opposition to calls on Congress from FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers to draft a legal framework that would enable law enforcement to access encrypted communication has been scattered at best. Experts have taken to their own forums to voice opposition to the...

Simple Fingerprint Test is Enough to Know Cocaine Use

If you are one of those using cocaine, law enforcement officials may soon catch you by simply examining your fingerprints. Scientists have developed a new type of drug test that can tell whether you have taken cocaine by analyzing chemical traces left behind in your fingerprint. A team of...

Autorize - Automatic Authorization Enforcement Detection (Extension for Burp Suite)

Autorize is an automatic authorization enforcement detection extension for Burp Suite. It was written in Python by Barak Tawily, an application security expert at AppSec Labs. Autorize was designed to help security testers by performing automatic authorization tests. Installation 1. Download Burp...

Sally Beauty Investigating Second Data Breach

Sally Beauty Supply, a seller of beauty products in the U.S., says it is investigating reports of fraudulent activities involving payment cards used at some of the chain’s retail locations. In March 2014, Sally Beauty admitted that hackers compromised its payment systems, exposing the sensitive...

Mozilla Moving Toward Full HTTPS Enforcement in Firefox

The Mozilla Foundation is initiating the process to phase out insecure HTTP connections in the Firefox browser. The decision is part of a broader movement to encrypt the Web, which in the case of Mozilla Firefox, means permitting only encrypted HTTPS browser connections. Mozilla is the developer ...

Congress, Crypto and Craziness

Crazy is never in short supply in Washington. Through lean times and boom times, regardless of who is in the White House or which party controls the Congress, the one resource that’s reliably renewable is nuttery. This is never more true than when that venerable and voluble body takes up a topic...

IC3 Warns of Cyber Attacks Focused on Law Enforcement and Public Officials

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert warning that law enforcement personnel and public officials may be at an increased risk of cyber attacks. Doxing—the act of gathering and publishing individuals’ personal information without permission—has been observed. Hacking...

As Ransomware Attacks Evolve, More Potential Victims Are at Risk

In early December, as most people were dealing with the stress of looking for the perfect holiday gifts and planning out their upcoming celebrations, police officers in a small New England town were under a different sort of pressure. The vital files and data the Tewksbury Police Department neede...

Coordinated Takedown Puts End to Simda Botnet

The Simda botnet, known for spreading banking malware and dropping a backdoor on hundreds of thousands of machines worldwide, was taken down last Thursday in a collaborative effort between international law enforcement bodies and private security and technology companies. Fourteen command and...

Beebone Botnet Taken Down By International Cybercrime Taskforce

U.S. and European law enforcement agencies have shut down a highly sophisticated piece of the botnet that had infected more than 12,000 computers worldwide, allowing hackers to steal victims’ banking information and other sensitive data. The law enforcement agencies from the United States, United...

KLA10541 Multiple vulnerabilities in Juniper Junos

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Juniper Junos. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gainprivileges, execute arbitrary code orspoof user interface. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities 1. XSS vulnerability can be exploited remotely via unspecified vectors...

Snapchat Publishes First Transparency Report

Snapchat has released its first transparency report, covering a four-month period from November through February, and the data shows that the company didn’t receive any National Security Letters and got fewer than 400 total requests for data from the United States government. Snapchat, a Californ...

Thousands of Hacked Uber Accounts Selling on Dark Web for $1

$US1 may be a very little amount, but it is enough to buy you a stolen Uber account and free car rides around the city. Two separate vendors on AlphaBay, a relatively new Dark Web marketplace launched in late 2014, are selling active Uber accounts with usernames and passwords for $1 each,...

Slack Discloses Breach of its User Profile Database

Enterprise and small business collaboration provider Slack today disclosed that a database storing user profile information has been compromised. The company said in a notice posted on its site that the unauthorized access has been blocked, and that it has implemented two-factor authentication...

FBI Pleads For Crypto Subversion in Congressional Budget Hearing

In a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing this morning on the FBI budget for the upcoming fiscal year, FBI Director James Comey was again critical of new encryption features from Apple and Google that he claims would make it impossible for law enforcement to access the contents of mobile...

Twitter Changes Abuse Reporting Process to Address Doxing

Twitter has revised and simplified its rules and process for reporting abusive behavior on the service, and users now have the ability to report people who are posting their personal information. The change essentially gives Twitter users a method to combat doxing, which is the process of dumping...

Ramnit Botnet Shut Down

The Ramnit botnet, a favorite among thieves dabbling in financial fraud for its frequent updates, has been shut down in a joint effort spearheaded by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre EC3. In a statement today, EC3 said investigators from across Europe, along with Microsoft, AnubisNetworks and...

$1.75 Million in Bitcoin Stolen from Chinese BTER Bitcoin Exchange

The most popular Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTER announced that it has been hacked on Valentine’s Day and lost more than £1.1 Million-worth $1.75 Million; one BTC is about $270 of the digital currency. The Bitcoin Exchange hasn't revealed more details about suspects behind the breach or how the col...