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Russia has never extradited anyone and will not extradite Snowden to US
A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin says, “Russia has never extradited anyone, and will not extradite,”. Moscow security agency FSB is in talks with the FBI over Snowden, but the whistleblower will not be extradited to the US. The Russian immigration ministry granted Snowden a document this...
Sim Card Cloning Hack affect 750 millions users around the world
SIM cards are among the most widely-deployed computing platforms with over 7 billion cards in active use. Cracking SIM cards has long been the Holy Grail of hackers because the tiny devices are located in phones and allow operators to identify and authenticate subscribers as they use networks. A...
TrueType Font Exploits Gateway to Kernel Attacks
Font-parsing vulnerabilities weren’t part of the security consciousness much until the discovery of Duqu at the end of 2011. The spy malware hooked into the Windows kernel through bugs in the TrueType font file parsing engine, and not only breathed new life into the concept of cyber espionage, bu...
Operation Troy espionage campaign : Hackers steal South Korean military secrets
McAfee Lab researchers issued a report on the large scale cyber attacks against South Korea that appear to be linked to hackers also specialized in cyber espionage. The attackers behind these recent attacks against South Korean infrastructure are skilled professionals and they designed a...
Operation Troy espionage campaign : Hackers steal South Korean military secrets
McAfee Lab researchers issued a report on the large scale cyber attacks against South Korea that appear to be linked to hackers also specialized in cyber espionage. The attackers behind these recent attacks against South Korean infrastructure are skilled professionals and they designed a...
Snowden says, NSA works closely with Germany and other Western state for spying
In an interview to be published in this week's of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states. The interview was conducted by US cryptography expert Jacob Appelbaum and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras using encrypte...
Hidden microphone found in Ecuador's embassy in UK
A hidden microphone was found in Ecuador's embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is sheltering from extradition to Sweden, The Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino claimed. The microphone was found in the office of the ambassador Ana Alban and was discovered last month...
Hidden microphone found in Ecuador's embassy in UK
A hidden microphone was found in Ecuador's embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is sheltering from extradition to Sweden, The Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino claimed. The microphone was found in the office of the ambassador Ana Alban and was discovered last month...
njRAT Attacks Spike Against Middle East High-Value Targets
Government agencies, telecom and energy organizations in the Middle East are being targeted by espionage malware known as njRAT. The remote access Trojan is thorough in its data-stealing capabilities. Beyond dropping a keylogger, variants are capable of accessing a computer’s camera, stealing...
Chinese Hackers group 'Comment Crew' is still active and operating under cover
Security experts are confident that the Chinese hackers group known as Comment Crew is still operating under cover. "The Comment Crew is back again" this is the rumor within Intelligence community, researchers suspect the involvement of the group of hackers in the recent cyber dispute between U.S...
Russian President rejected US demand to extradite Edward Snowden
Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to extradite National Security Agency Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Tuesday, says since Snowden has not committed a crime in that country, the government will not extradite him back. Putin said, "Mr. Snowden is a free man," Snowden di...
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...
Whistleblower Edward Snowden arrives in Moscow with the help of Wikileaks
Edward Snowden, The Whistleblower who revealed the existence of a secret US online surveillance program left Hong Kong and has landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport with help of Wikileaks. WikiLeaks said in a statement that its legal adviser Sarah Harrison was on the plane with Mr Snowden and...
Whistleblower Edward Snowden arrives in Moscow with the help of Wikileaks
Edward Snowden, The Whistleblower who revealed the existence of a secret US online surveillance program left Hong Kong and has landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport with help of Wikileaks. WikiLeaks said in a statement that its legal adviser Sarah Harrison was on the plane with Mr Snowden and...
China Accuses America of Hacking
The predominant narrative among U.S. officials and security experts is that Chinese hackers, allegedly at the behest of their government, are thoroughly compromising the computer networks of American government, defense, and public sector organizations in order to steal any valuable data. What yo...
Surveillance malware targets 350 high profile victims in 40 countries
A global cyber espionage campaign affecting over 350 high profile victims in 40 countries, appears to be the work of Chinese hackers using a Surveillance malware called "NetTraveler". Kaspersky Lab’s team of experts published a new research report about NetTraveler, which is a family of malicious...
China military to conduct training on digital warfare
As concerns are growing regarding Chinese hacking attacks, the country will undergo its first digital war games. Only two days after the U.S. has attributed cyber espionage attacks against U.S. government and business entities to the Chinese Government and Military, it was announced that the...
China military to conduct training on digital warfare
As concerns are growing regarding Chinese hacking attacks, the country will undergo its first digital war games. Only two days after the U.S. has attributed cyber espionage attacks against U.S. government and business entities to the Chinese Government and Military, it was announced that the...
Chinese hackers access major U.S. weapon system Designs
According to report published by for the Defense Department and government and defense industry officials, Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems. The compromised U.S. designs included those for combat aircraft and ships, ...
Flame One Year Later
It’s been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery of Flame should be seen as a seminal event in the evolution of malware. When Flame emerged in May 2012, some of the outside...