The EARN IT Act Is Back

Senators have reintroduced the EARN IT Act, requiring social media companies among others to administer a massive surveillance operation on their users: A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal D-CT and Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC have re-introduced the EARN IT Act, an incredibly unpopula...

Encryption-Busting EARN IT Act Advances in Senate

Plus: A massive crime bust in Europe, a warning from US Cyber Command, and more of the week's top security news...

Going dark: encryption and law enforcement

UPDATE, 05/22/2020: In the advent of the EARN IT Act, the debate on government subversion of encryption has reignited. Given that the material conditions of the technology have not changed, and the arguments given in favor of the bill are not novel, we've decided to republish the following blog...

A week in security (May 11 – May 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explained why RevenueWire has to pay $6.7 million to settle FTC charges, how CVSS works: characterizing and scoring vulnerabilities, and we talked about how and why hackers hit a major law firm with Sodinokibi ransomware. We also launched another episode of our...

Signal Threatens to Leave the US If EARN IT Act Passes

Plus: WhatsApp updates, a ransomware scheme, and more of the week's top security news...

The EARN-IT Act

Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S. The EARN-IT Act purports to be about protecting children from predation, but it's really about forcing the tech companies to break their encryption schemes: The EARN IT Act would create a "National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation...

The EARN IT Act Is a Sneak Attack on Encryption

The crypto wars are back in full swing...

Indian Government blocks 32 Sites, including GitHub, Pastebin, Imgur and Vimeo

China is known as the nation of 'global internet censorship', and the country proved it many times, in fact when recently it blocked the access to Gmail from the country. Now, it seems that its northern neighbouring country, India doesn't want to get left behind. On Wednesday, the Indian Computer...

BSNL telecom server hacked by Anonymous Group against Section 66A of IT Act

The Homepage of BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited https://www.bsnl.co.in/ was hacked today morning by hacking group Anonymous. BSNL is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company, the largest provider of fixed telephony and fourth largest mobile telephony provider in India, and is also a...

BSNL telecom server hacked by Anonymous Group against Section 66A of IT Act

The Homepage of BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited http://www.bsnl.co.in/ was hacked today morning by hacking group Anonymous. BSNL is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company, the largest provider of fixed telephony and fourth largest mobile telephony provider in India, and is also a...

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google India's authorities are already forcing Research In Motion to grant access to the encrypted email and instant messages of its BlackBerry users, and now the government is pressuring Google and Skype too. Doesn't the...

CHMag Issue 16th, May 2011 Download !

CHMag Issue 16th, May 2011 Download ! Here we are again with the latest issue of ClubHack Magazine. This time also the issue is dedicated to Browser security. Contents of this Issue:- 1. Tech Gyan - First ever public disclosure of Password secrets of "Apple Safari". 2. Tool Gyan - BeEF Browser...

More than 199 Indian govt websites defaced in last 6 months !

The government today said 199 government websites have been defaced by foreign hackers in the last six months. "The website of Central Bureau of Investigation CBI was defaced by a foreign hacker "Pakistan Cyber Army" on December 3, 2010. In addition to this, a total of 198 government websites wer...

Abuse of social networking sites misused among youth in Kochi !

while engaging in online social networking sites seemed to have yielded little results, if the statistics and current trends are any indication. The Cyber Cell of the City Police has received more than 40 complaints of abuse of social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook this year itself. In...

Man Arrested for Hacking Girl's Social Media and Posting Lewd Messages

A 29-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for hacking into a girl's social networking profile, altering her photos, and posting inappropriate messages. The police apprehended Pramod Nana Bavdekar from his home in Andheri, seizing his computer and hard disk as evidence. The incident began on...

Cyber Stalking and Defamation Criminalized in IT Act Amendments

With mobile phones now essentially serving as personal computers, proposed amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2006, specify that transmitting offensive or menacing text, audio, or video can result in two years of imprisonment. This punishment also applies if the content is false and...