Tech Companies, Privacy Advocates Call for NSA Reform

A group of technology companies, non-profits and privacy and human rights organizations have sent a letter to President Barack Obama, the director of national intelligence and a wide range of Congressional leaders, calling for an end to the bulk collection of phone metadata under Section 215 of t...

CIA Has Been Hacking iPhone and iPad Encryption Security

Security researchers at the Central Intelligence Agency CIA have worked for almost a decade to target security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple devices in order to break the system. Citing the top-secret documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept blog reporte...

Microsoft warning: Windows PC there are also Freak security vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Microsoft on Friday warned that hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are facing a“Freak”security vulnerability threats, and that a newly discovered security vulnerability was initially considered only for mobile devices and Apple Mac computers pose a threat. On Tuesday, by 9 The name of...

CVE-2 0 1 5-0 2 0 4 OpenSSL FREAK Attack vulnerability detection methods and repair recommendations-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0×0 1 Introduction Near the Lantern Festival on the occasion, OpenSSL and because of the FREAK attack（also known as the Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys vulnerability or CVE-2 0 1 5-0 2 0 4. the vulnerability fights uproar. Apple and Google are in on Tuesday indicated that they are fixing the...

Guidance for Defending Against Destructive Malware

The Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency NSA has released a report on Defensive Best Practices for Destructive Malware. This report details several steps network defenders can take to detect, contain, and minimize destructive malware infections. US-CERT encourages use...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Week in News: Superfish, Gemalto and NSA

Mike Mimoso and Dennis Fisher discuss the news of the last week, including the Superfish fiasco, the Gemalto SIM hack controversy and the continuing NSA drama. Download: digitalunderground187.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Gemalto Officials Say SIM Infrastructure Not Compromised

Despite leaked documents from the NSA showing otherwise, officials at Gemalto on Wednesday said the company has found no evidence that its SIM card infrastructure was compromised several years ago by the NSA and GCHQ. The company identified a handful of what it called sophisticated attacks in the...

NSA Could Be Hoping For Clipper Chip Redux

The NSA has a new director, a slew of new challenges and any number of new capabilities at its disposal. But it seems that the agency is intent on fighting the same old battles. Even as fresh revelations about the extent of the NSA’s efforts to get access to encryption keys for mobile...

Gemalto Hack May Have Far-Reaching Effects

Security experts are still trying to assess the effects of the reported attack on SIM card manufacturer that resulted in the theft of millions of encryption keys for mobile phones around the world, but it’s safe to say that the operation has caused reverberations throughout the industry and...

NSA Stole Millions Of SIM Card Encryption Keys To Gather Private Data

Edward Snowden is back with one of the biggest revelations about the government's widespread surveillance program. The US National Security Agency NSA and British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ hacked into the networks of the world's biggest SIM card manufacturer, accordi...

Spy Agencies Rely on Hackers for Stolen Data and Monitoring Security Experts for Expertise

The NSA and GCHQ have tracked and monitored the activities of independent and nation-state hackers, along with some of the foremost security researchers in order to gather information on targets and pilfer the stolen data from hackers' archives, top secret Snowden documents reveal. State-sponsore...

China Demands Tech Companies to give them Backdoor and Encryption Keys

A number of western companies are doing big business in China, but now they may have to pay a huge value for to do so. China has introduced strict new banking cyber security regulations on western companies selling technology to Chinese banks. The Chinese government wants backdoors installed in a...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Ghost Vulnerability, the Regin/NSA Correlation and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Ghost glibc vulnerability and its repercussions, the Apple iOS and OSX patches, the link between the Regin APT platform and the NSA. Plus Super Bowl predictions! Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground182.mp3...

Links Found between NSA, Regin Spy tool and QWERTY Keylogger

​Researchers have uncovered a new evidence that a powerful computer program discovered last year, called "Regin", is "identical in functionality" to a piece of malware used by the National Security Agency NSA and its Five Eyes allies. REGIN MALWARE "Regin" is a highly advanced, sophisticated piec...

Connection Disclosed Between Regin, Five Eyes Malware Platform

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered shared code and functionality between the Regin malware platform and a similar platform described in a newly disclosed set of Edward Snowden documents 10 days ago by Germany’s Der Spiegel. The link, found in a keylogger called QWERTY allegedly used by...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Encryption, the Microsoft-Google Feud and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the security news of the past week, including the proposed changes to the CFAA, David Cameron’s encryption comments, the NSA’s quasi-apology regarding Dual EC and the Microsoft-Google disclosure feud. Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground180.m...

Matthew Green on the NSA and Compromising Crypto Standards

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the NSA’s “regret” for continuing to support Dual EC after it had been shown to be compromised, the effects of the agency’s influence on crypto standards and the hope for more secure standards in the future. Download:...

NSA Official: Support for Compromised Dual EC Algorithm Was 'Regrettable'

In a new article in an academic math journal, the NSA’s former director of research says that the agency’s decision not to withdraw its support of the Dual ECDRBG random number generator after security researchers found weaknesses in it and questioned its provenance was a “regrettable” choice...

Experts Question Legality of Use of Regin Malware by Intel Agencies

The disclosure of the Regin APT malware campaign this week has spurred much speculation about the source of the attack, with many experts pointing the finger at either the NSA or GCHQ, the British spy agency. Though security researchers involved in uncovering the attack have remained mum on the...

EFF, Privacy Groups Say NIST Crypto Standards Must be Free From Backdoors

The EFF and a long list of civil and privacy groups have sent a letter to NIST, emphasizing the need for the agency to create “a process for establishing secure and resilient encryption standards, free from back doors or other known vulnerabilities.” The letter comes at a time when the agency is ...