China Accuses U.S. of Fabricating Volt Typhoon to Hide Its Own Hacking Campaigns

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center CVERC has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies. The agency, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, went ...

Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet

In occupied Ukraine, people’s internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine...

Chrome casts away the padlock—is it good riddance or farewell?

It’s been an interesting journey for security messaging where browsers are concerned. Back in the day, many of the websites you’d visit on a daily basis weren’t secure. By secure, I mean that they didnt use HTTPS. There was no padlock, which meant that the traffic between you and the website wasn...

Google's G Suite, Search and Analytics Taken Down in Hijacking

Google said key business services were knocked offline Monday when web traffic to a portion of its cloud platform was hijacked and routed through Chinese, Nigerian and Russian ISPs. The incident lasted for 74 minutes in what is called a Border Gateway Protocol BGP hijacking. BGP is a protocol tha...

More on the NSA's Use of Traffic Shaping

"Traffic shaping" -- the practice of tricking data to flow through a particular route on the Internet so it can be more easily surveiled -- is an NSA technique that has gotten much less attention than it deserves. It's a powerful technique that allows an eavesdropper to get access to communicatio...

Glenn Greenwald to Publish Names of US citizens that NSA Spied On Illegally

Two weeks ago, it was revealed that NSA has been reportedly intercepting and accessing routers, servers, and other computer networking hardware to plant data gathering “backdoors” and other spywares before they were exported and delivered to the international customers. Now, the journalist Glenn...

Research Quantifies Forged SSL Certificates in the Wild

An attacker with a forged SSL certificate is quite the Internet villain these days, be he a criminal or government spy. In possession of such a cert, an attacker can easily decrypt and monitor traffic, steal credentials and other sensitive information from a network. And with sensitivity over...

The Internet is Owned--Act Accordingly

PUNTA CANA—Costin Raiu is a cautious man. He measures his words carefully and says exactly what he means, and is not given to hyperbole or exaggeration. Raiu is the driving force behind much of the intricate research into APTs and targeted attacks that Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis...

Yahoo Mail turns on HTTPS encryption by default to protect users

After the release of NSA Secret spying over Internet communications, I am expecting from all tech companies to make surveillance significantly harder. Yahoo has HTTPS encryption support since late 2012, but users had to opt in to use the feature. Documents revealed by the Edward Snowden shows tha...

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...

FBI Cyber Division put 'Syrian Electronic Army' Hackers in wanted list

The Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a pro-regime hacker group that emerged during Syrian anti-government protests in 2011, and involved in cyber attacks against western media organizations are now in the FBI's wanted list. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued an alert warning of cyber attac...

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...

Digital privacy, Internet Surveillance and The PRISM - Enemies of the Internet

If you have followed the startling revelations about the scope of the US government's surveillance efforts, you may have thought you were reading about the end of privacy, and about the Enemies of the Internet. "My computer was arrested before I was." a perceptive comment by an internet activist...

Digital privacy, Internet Surveillance and The PRISM - Enemies of the Internet

If you have followed the startling revelations about the scope of the US government's surveillance efforts, you may have thought you were reading about the end of privacy, and about the Enemies of the Internet. “My computer was arrested before I was.” a perceptive comment by an internet activist...