Federal judge blocks NSA surveillance records from being destroyed

Last week, The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court FISA ruled the National Security Agency NSA to do not keep Internet and phone metadata gathered through bulk surveillance programs longer than five years and destroy them. Judge Reggie Walton said, keeping records for more than 5 years "would...

Edward Snowden at SXSW Conference: Would I do this again?, I Would!

The Whistleblower and Former National Security Agency NSA contractor Edward Snowden raised his voice and talked about citizen’s privacy once again. Yes, Snowden, whose leaks last year triggered debate on the massive surveillance conducted by the Government worldwide. In an interview, speaking via...

Snowden: Surveillance Has Damaged Internet, U.S. Economy

The mass surveillance programs that he revealed through media leaks in the last year have not only compromised the privacy and security of Americans, but have damaged the country’s economy, Edward Snowden said in an interview Monday. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who sto...

SonicWALL NSA 2400 Security Dashboard跨站脚本漏洞

SonicWALL NSA 系列采用新一代统一威胁管理UTM技术抵抗各种攻击,兼备入侵防御、防病毒及反间谍软件功能和SonicWALL应用防火墙的应用层控制功能。 由于通过"sn" GET参数传递到/stats/dashboard.jsp的输入在返回用户前未能正确过滤，攻击者可以利用漏洞在受影响站点上下文的用户浏览器会话中执行任意HTML和脚本代码。 0 SonicWALL Network Security Appliance NSA Series 厂商补丁： SonicWALL ----- 目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复这个安全问题，请到厂商的主页下载：...

Encrypted Chat Service 'Cryptocat' released iOS app

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'Optic Nerve' - Dirty NSA hacked into Webcam of millions of Yahoo users for Private Images

Once again, a new revelation showed the ugly side of the Government who are conducting Global Mass surveillance and previous documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden have defaced the US Intelligence Agency NSA, who were taking care of a number of projects like PRISM, XKeyscore,...

Lavabit Case May Be One of Many in Coming Years

SAN FRANCISCO–The Lavabit case, which saw the secure email provider’s owner shut the company down after being forced to hand over to the government the encryption key that protected his users’ data, may seem like an extreme reaction to a unique situation. But, experts say it’s likely that there...

Boeing launches Ultra-Secure 'Black' Smartphone that has Self-Destruct Feature

Looking for a Secure Smartphone? World's biggest Aerospace company - Boeing is finally close to the launch of its high-security Android Smartphone, called "Boeing Black H8V-BLK1", primarily designed for secure communication between Governmental agencies and their contractors. Encrypted email,...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Day One at the RSA Conference 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the happenings on day one of the RSA Conference, including Art Coviello’s keynote and what makes the NSA mad. Download: digitalunderground146.mp3...

The NSA is 'Not Made of Magic'

SAN FRANCISCO–Of the small pool of people who have seen the Snowden documents, few, if any, are as technically savvy and knowledgeable about security and surveillance as Bruce Schneier. And after reading through stacks and stacks of them, Schneier says that yes, the NSA is extremely capable and...

Experts Urge Conservatism on Crypto Standards

SAN FRANCISCO–Security people are, by nature, cautious and methodical, and that is even more true of cryptographers. And in the current environment, when new adversaries seem to emerge on a daily basis and cryptographic standards are under intense scrutiny, a panel of some of the biggest names in...

RSA Conference 2014 Art Coviello RSA keynote

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA Security executive chairman Art Coviello today at RSA Conference 2014 made his first public comments about the security company’s relationship with the National Security Agency, painting the landmark firm as a victim of the spy agency’s blurring of the lines between its...

Apple's SSL Vulnerability might allow NSA to hack iOS Devices Remotely

Just two days before Apple has disclosed a critical Security flaw in the SSL implementation on the iOS software that would allow man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept the SSL data by spoofing SSL servers. Dubbed as CVE-2014-1266, the so-called ‘goto fail;’ vulnerability in which the secure...

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...

Why You need to Stop using WhatsApp?

If you haven’t heard by now, Facebook just made its biggest move ever, buying the messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth some $19 billion. That’s 19 times what Facebook paid for Instagram two years ago. The WhatsApp Service run by the team of just 32 engineers, handles more than 50 Billion...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Preview RSA 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso preview next week’s RSA conference, discuss the sessions they’re looking forward to covering and what the fallout from the NSA controversy will be during the week...

Edward Snowden obtained classified NSA documents by stealing Coworker’s Password

We are quite aware of the leaks that the Whistleblower Edward Snowden carried out against the US National Security Agency NSA and after reading every related update, watching every document that he provided to various news websites, you all are left with a question in mind that, How he could carr...

Dear Internet, Today is 'The Day We Fight Back', Biggest protest against NSA Surveillance

The US Government has allotted a large share of its 'Black Budget' for secret military research and weapons programs, along with surveillance programs, that is harvesting hundreds of millions of Metadata from emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else around the world. To...

'Our Threat Model Has Changed'

PUNTA CANA–The golden era of bulk surveillance through the acquisition of phone records and other data from telecommunications companies may already be fading, but the larger threat to privacy and security is just beginning to emerge: the use of legal tools and coercion to get around encryption a...

Unseen 4096-Bit Encrypted Email, Chat and File Sharing Service to counter NSA Spying

With the beginning of a new week, we always came across a new revelation of surveillance programs run by the U.S. Government. A Recent NYT Report disclosed that how whistleblower Edward Snowden downloaded 1.7 million classified files which are revealing a number of secret spying projects that are...