Meaningful Surveillance Reform Risks Defeat Over US House Rules Change

Civil liberties groups are anxiously waiting to see if an anti-surveillance amendment will be added to a Department of Defense spending bill Tuesday. The so-called Massie-Lofgren amendment would rein in U.S. domestic mass surveillance by the NSA and protect U.S. encryption standards. The amendmen...

NSA wants to Exploit Internet of Things and Biomedical Devices

The cyber attack vectors available to hackers will continue to grow as the Internet of Things IoTs become more commonplace, making valuable data accessible through an ever-widening selection of entry points. Although it's not the hackers alone, the NSA is also behind the Internet of Things. We...

So, FBI Director also Puts Tape Over His Webcam

What do you do to protect your 'Privacy' while using your computer? FBI Director James Comey uses tape to cover up his laptop webcam to ensure Privacy. Yes, you heard it right. During the Q&A session at Kenyon College last week, Comey said that he uses tape to cover his laptop webcam in order to...

Juniper Updates ScreenOS: Hopes RNG/NSA Controversy Over

Juniper Networks hopes to remove any clouds of uncertainty that its networking gear might still have a backdoor that could allow the NSA or hackers to snoop on traffic running through its hardware. On Thursday, Juniper completed an update to the way its ScreenOS software handles encryption. Junip...

Clarke: Precedent-Seeking FBI Won't Ask NSA to Unlock Phone

The National Security Agency’s silence in the Apple-FBI story is probably not so surprising. But that hasn’t stopped people from dragging the NSA’s name into the conversation. The latest to do so is Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism chair under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton...

NSA's Rogers Quiet on Apple-FBI Debate at RSA

SAN FRANCISCO—National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command director Admiral Michael S. Rogers stood before tens of thousands of RSA Conference attendees on Tuesday and asked for help. In what has almost become a speaking slot reserved for the government to use as a recruiting pitch of some sor...

FBI Admits — It was a 'Mistake' to Reset Terrorist's iCloud Password

Yes, FBI Director James Comey admitted that the investigators made a "mistake" with the San Bernardino investigation during a congressional hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee. Apple is facing a court order to help the FBI unlock an iPhone belonged to San Bernardino Shooter by developin...

NSA Data Center Experiencing 300 Million Hacking Attempts Per Day

Utah State computer systems are experiencing a massive cyber attack on up to 300 Million Hacking attempts per day due to National Security Agency’s NSA data center in the state. Yes, 300,000,000 hacking attempts in a day! According to the statistical survey, it is evident that the computer system...

NSA’s Top-Secret SKYNET May Be Killing Thousands of Innocent Civilians

So what do you expect from an Artificially intelligent program run by the government intelligence agency? Possibly killing innocent people. The real-life SKYNET, the fictional malevolent artificial intelligence in the Terminator movies, run by the US National Security Agency NSA is a surveillance...

British Intelligence is Legally Allowed to Hack Anyone, Court Says

Hacking of computers, smartphones and networks in the United Kingdom or abroad by the Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ is LEGAL, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal IPT ruled. So, the UK is giving clean chit to its intelligence agency to spy on its people as well as people living...

Socat Weak Diffie-Hellman Prime Number

Update Socat is the latest open source tool to come under suspicion that it is backdoored. Socat is a versatile command line utility that builds bi-directional communication streams and moves data between channels, including files, network pipes, serial connected devices, sockets or a combination...

How Spy Agencies Hacked into Israeli Military Drones to Collect Live Video Feeds

--- Featured Image Only. See Original leaked images below. In a joint surveillance program, the US intelligence agency NSA National Security Agency and the British intelligence agency GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters hacked into, decrypted, and tracked live video feeds of Israeli...

VirusTotal Firmware Malware Implant Scanning

Successful attacks against firmware are rare but provide hackers with one thing they covet most: persistence. Advanced attack groups have already accelerated their capabilities in finding ways to burrow into the BIOS and EFI as noted by the Snowden leaks’ description of the NSA’s attempts to...

Government Agencies Audit For Juniper Backdoor

Most U.S. government agencies have until Feb. 4 to audit their IT infrastructure for the use of backdoored Juniper Networks’ Netscreen firewalls. Letters went out late last week from the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee to the leaders of the various agencies asking them to provide th...

British Intelligence Open-Sources its Large-Scale Graph Database Software

UK's Secretive Spy Agency Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ has open-sourced one of its tools on code-sharing website GitHub for free... A graph database called 'Gaffer.' Gaffer, written in Java, is a kind of database that makes it "easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes an...

Private Messaging System: Vuvuzela

Vuvuzela is a messaging system that protects the privacy of message contents and message metadata. Users communicating through Vuvuzela do not reveal who they are talking to, even in the presence of powerful nation-state adversaries. Vuvuzela is the first system that provides strong metadata...

National Security Letter Attachment Details

While the Snowden documents have demystified the intelligence community’s hacking abilities, few specifics are known about National Security Letters, law enforcement’s most powerful tool to compel telecommunications and Internet service providers to turn over a broad scope of user data, and which...

Today NSA has Stopped its Bulk Phone Surveillance Program

Rejoice! From this morning, you can call freely to anyone, talk anything without any fear of being spied by the United States National Security Agency NSA, as the agency is not allowed to collect bulk phone records. Until now we all are aware of the NSA's bulk phone surveillance program – thanks ...

CVE-2015-4852

The WLS Security component in Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6.0, 12.1.2.0, 12.1.3.0, and 12.2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object in T3 protocol traffic to TCP port 7001, related to...

Same Rhetoric Permeates Going Dark Encryption Debate

BOSTON — The Going Dark encryption debate surfaced again on Wednesday at a small security conference here, and as in previous iterations before larger technical audiences and even Congress, the issue continues to spin on a hamster wheel going nowhere. This time the notable dignitary stumping for...