Government Surveillance Could Targeted Automated Updates

SAN FRANCISCO – As more Web-based services are encrypted, privacy advocates are concerned the next wave of aggressive surveillance activity could target automated update services that essentially provide Internet companies root access to machines. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the...

Bruce Schneier on Surveillance and Trust

Dennis Fisher talks with Bruce Schneier about the differences between bulk and targeted surveillance, the most concerning NSA revelations and making surveillance more expensive for intelligence agencies. Download: digitalunderground145.mp3...

Silent Circle's Blackphone - Privacy and Security Focused Smartphone for $629

Earlier this year encrypted communications firm Silent Circle and Spanish Smartphone maker Geeksphone announced a privacy-focused encrypted Smartphone called 'Blackphone' and today the company has revealed it as 'Mobile World Congress' in Barcelona. The Blackphone titled as, “world’s first...

'Chaos Computer Club' filed criminal complaint against German government Over Mass Spying

After the revelation of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we all very well knew the impact of it on the world, but nobody would have estimated that the impact will be so worst. The revelation, not only defaced NSA, but also its counterpart GCHQ, and various other governments which were servin...

Indian Intelligence Agencies going to deploy Internet Surveillance project NETRA

Think twice before using some words like ‘Bomb’, ‘Attack’, ‘Blast’ or ‘kill’ in your Facebook status update, tweets or emails, because this may flag you as a potential terrorist under a surveillance project of Indian Security agencies. This Indian Internet surveillance project named as NETRA...

Belgium's largest Telcom 'Belgacom' hacked; NSA could be behind the Attack

Belgacom, the largest telecommunications company in Belgium today announced that their IT Systems were hacked and infected with an unknown Malware. In order to eliminate that virus effectively, they clean up the entire system. The company also highlights that they have no indication of any impact...

NSA Director Alexander Defends Surveillance at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS –NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander’s keynote today at Black Hat USA 2013 was a tense confessional, an hour-long emotional and sometimes angry ride that shed some new insight into the spy agency’s two notorious data collection programs, inspired moments of loud applause in support of the...

U.S. Department of Defense Officials are potential target of cyber espionage via social networking sites

In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be...

Chinese hackers infiltrate Indian Defence Research Organisation

According to an exclusive report published today by DNA news, the computers of highly sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation DRDO have reportedly been hacked by Chinese hackers as biggest security breach in the Indian Defence ever. Infiltrate leading to the leak of thousands of t...

Chinese hackers infiltrate Indian Defence Research Organisation

According to an exclusive report published today by DNA news, the computers of highly sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation DRDO have reportedly been hacked by Chinese hackers as biggest security breach in the Indian Defence ever. Infiltrate leading to the leak of thousands of t...

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...

Flame Malware Raises Need for Open Talk on Use of Cyberweapons

The discovery of the Flame malware has raised a number of questions, some mundane, some interesting and many unanswerable at this point. But the point that’s most interesting also is the one that likely will go unaddressed for the foreseeable future, and that is, the need for a serious, open...

'The Hackers Conference 2012' to be held in New Delhi

'The Hackers Conference 2012' to be held in New Delhi The Biggest Hacking Mania has arrived. The Hackers Conference 2012 will be held in New Delhi on July 29. THC 2012 is expected to be the first open gathering of Blackhat hackers in India who will debate latest security issues with the top...

Afghan Taliban website hacked 3rd time by hackers

Hackers have for the third time in less than a year attacked the main website of the Afghan Taliban. Images of pigeons and Taliban executions of women were combined with various messages in English, Pashto, and Arabic that support the Afghan government, replacing the Taliban's usual pabulum of...

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files "Give me liberty or give me death" is a statement made famous by Patrick Henry but could easily have been stated by the new patriot of justice, Julian Assange. Julian Assange is a journalist and activist best known as the founder and public face of WikiLeaks,...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

Company Offers Tool To Break iPhone Encryption

ElcomSoft, a Russian security firm, claims that a new encryption cracking tool can decode data encrypted on mobile devices running Apple’s iOS operating system. Elcomsoft says it has developed the first ever commercially available password and encryption cracking tool. The company has made a phon...

Exclusive Report : Is Department of Defense (DoD), Pentagon, NASA, NSA is Secure ?

Exclusive Report : Is Department of Defense DoD, Pentagon, NASA, NSA is Secure ? Over the past couple of weeks there has been a series of discussions around why the U.S defense and Intelligence agencies are moving so quickly to adopt cloud computing. Are there any Security Holes in their Security...

Secret plan to kill Wikileaks with FUD leaked !

Three security consulting firm with links to intelligence agencies of the United States to cook up to dirty tricks campaign late last year in favor of Wikileaks to destroy its perceived weaknesses, reads the draft published in the organization of information 'which claimed to be from the...

British govt computers under cyber attacks from hostile states !

British Adopted Secretary William Hague has said that cyberspace is acceptance abyss and adverse intelligence agencies to advance the British government. During a appointment in Munich, Hague not alone talked about how government computers were adulterated by a virus aftermost year, but...