Judge Rules Use of FBI Malware Is A 'Search'

Civil liberty advocates say a Texas judge got it right when he ruled on a controversial child porn case regarding the FBI’s use of malware to search a computer. Senior U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra of the San Antonio division of the Western District of Texas court ruled that sending malware...

Two US State Election Systems Hacked to Steal Voter Databases — FBI Warns

A group of unknown hackers or an individual hacker may have breached voter registration databases for election systems in at least two US states, according to the FBI, who found evidence during an investigation this month. Although any intrusion in the state voting system has not been reported, t...

FBI Warned State Election Board Systems of Hacks

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division this month warned election officials nationwide to fortify voter registration data systems in the wake of two breaches it was able to detect earlier this summer. A “flash” warning sent by the agency about 10 days ago warned state boards of...

Seized Megaupload Domain Hijacked to Host Malicious Ads

Well, we all know that the FBI has previously hosting adult videos on the Internet. I still remember the case of PlayPen, the world's largest dark web prngraphy site, which was seized by FBI and ran from agency’s own servers to uncover the site's visitors. Now, one of the most popular sites owned...

Tor Update Fixes ReachableAddresses Problem

The Tor Project on Wednesday updated its software package to version 0.2.8.7 and fixed a number of issues, including a bug it calls “important” in the ReachableAddresses option. ReachableAddresses is a list of IP addresses and ports that are permitted by a firewall; admins can set IP ranges and...

Eddie Bauer Confirms Payment Card Breach of US, Canadian Stores

Clothing store Eddie Bauer has become the latest retail chain to acknowledge that malware has led to a breach of its point of sale systems. In a press release .PDF late last week Eddie Bauer confirmed that any customers who used a payment card at a store over the past seven months, from January 2...

Hack Apple & Get Paid up to $200,000 Bug Bounty Reward

So finally, Apple will pay you for your efforts of finding bugs in its products. While major technology companies, including Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have launched bug bounty programs over last few years to reward researchers and hackers who report vulnerabilities in their products, Apple...

Export-Grade Crypto Patching Improves

LAS VEGAS – The FREAK, LOGJAM and DROWN attacks of the last 17 months weren’t just the work of academics and security researchers who found a cool way to unmask encrypted traffic. They were ugly reminders of the Crypto Wars of the 1990s and why export-grade cryptography and intentional encryption...

FBI 'Double Agent' Pleads Guilty to Selling 'Classified Information' to China

An FBI electronics technician has pleaded guilty to acting as a Chinese secret agent and passing along sensitive information about the Feds to a Chinese government official. Kun Shan "Joey" Chun, 46, admitted in federal court in Manhattan on Monday that he violated his security clearance on sever...

KeySniffer Lets Hackers Steal Keystrokes from Wireless Keyboards

Radio-based wireless keyboards and mice that use a special USB dongle to communicate with your PC can expose all your secrets – your passwords, credit card numbers and everything you type. Back in February, researchers from the Internet of things security firm Bastille Networks demonstrated how...

Is Russia Behind the DNC Hack to Help Donald Trump? FBI Initiate an Investigation

On Friday, just three days prior to the start of the party's national convention, WikiLeaks released almost 20,000 e-mails with more than 8,000 stolen from the US Democratic National Committee DNC following a cyber attack in June. Two days later, on Sunday, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz...

Former Cardinals Scout Christopher Correa Sentenced Four Years for Houston Astros Hack

The Federal Court came down hard on a former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday, sentencing Christopher Correa to almost four years in prison for hacking into a computer system that belongs to the Houston Astros. Correa, who until last summer served as Director of Baseball...

Fiat Chrysler Launches Bug Bounty with $1.5K Payout Cap

Hacking Jeeps is about to get a lot more competitive. That’s because Jeep maker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has launched a bug bounty program in conjunction with Bugcrowd that will payout as much as $1,500 per bug. Fiat Chrysler, the world’s No. 7 automaker, claims it will be the first Detroit...

Second 'Fappening' Hacker Pleads Guilty; Facing up to 5 years in Prison

A second man has pleaded guilty for his role in 'The Fappening' breach of 2014, in which the Internet was flooded with thousands of photographs of popular celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst. Edward Majerczyk 28 of Chicago, Illinois agreed to ple...

tips.fbi.gov XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://tips.fbi.gov/remote-link?remoteurl=javascript:alert%27OPENBUGBOUNTY%27 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 07.08.2016 Latest check for patch:| 07.08.2016 14:00 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / No...

vault.fbi.gov XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://vault.fbi.gov/remote-link?remoteurl=javascript:alert%27OPENBUGBOUNTY%27 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 07.08.2016 Latest check for patch:| 07.08.2016 14:00 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / N...

fbi.gov XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.fbi.gov/homepage/remote-link?remoteurl=javascript:alert'OPENBUGBOUNTY' Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 27.07.2016 Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2016 16:29 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 10854 VI...

Apple iOS Beta Kernel Unencrypted: Pros and Cons

Last week Apple cleared the air as to whether or not it intentionally released an unencrypted version of its iOS 10 beta kernel to the developer community, stating the move was intentional. “The kernel cache doesn’t contain any user info, and by unencrypting it we’re able to optimize the operatin...

Selfrando Technique Mitigates Attacks Unmasking Tor Users

The FBI’s apparent capability to unmask users of the Tor Network has caused hand-wringing among those concerned with privacy and civil liberties, many of whom are busy trying to win legal battles to get law enforcement to confess as to how they’re doing it. A team of academics and researchers,...

Apple left iOS 10 Kernel Code Unencrypted, Intentionally!

Apple’s new iOS 10 recently made headlines after MIT Technology Review revealed that the company had left the kernel of the mobile operating system unencrypted. Yes, the first developer preview of iOS 10 released at WWDC has an unencrypted kernel. When the headline broke, some of the users were...