Belgium's largest Telcom 'Belgacom' hacked; NSA could be behind the Attack

Belgacom, the largest telecommunications company in Belgium today announced that their IT Systems were hacked and infected with an unknown Malware. In order to eliminate that virus effectively, they clean up the entire system. The company also highlights that they have no indication of any impact...

UK Cryptographers Call For Publication of Deliberately Weakened Protocols, Products

A group of cryptographers in the UK has published a letter that calls on authorities in that country and the United States to conduct an investigation to determine which security products, protocols and standards have been deliberately weakened by the countries’ intelligence services. The letter,...

Belgium’s largest Telcom 'Belgacom' hacked; NSA could be behind the Attack

Belgacom, the largest telecommunications company in Belgium today announced that their IT Systems were hacked and infected with an unknown Malware. In order to eliminate that virus effectively, they clean up the entire system. The company also highlights that they have no indication of any impact...

FBI compromised Tor hidden service to bust largest Child Pornography Ring

A few days before the servers of the largest provider of Ultra Anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors who were using the Tor service to hide their identity online. The javascript code exploited a security vulnerability in the open-source version of...

Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...

On The Latest NSA Revelations, the Tor Botnet and Kimsuky

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the news of the last couple of weeks, including the revelations of the NSA’s anti-cryptography capabilities, the botnet making use of Tor and the Kimsuky cyberespionage attack. Download: digitalunderground126.mp3...

Frequently Unanswered Questions on the NSA Leaks

The flood of documents regarding the NSA’s collection methods and capabilities that have been leaked this summer has produced thousands of news stories and several metric tons of speculation about what it all means. But for all of the postulating, analysis and reporting, there are still a lot of...

Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

It’s been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...

DNI Releases FISC Docs, But Legislators Say Much More Remains Hidden

The federal government has released hundreds of pages of documents, including orders and opinions from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, related to the NSA’s surveillance programs, but legislators who have been involved in the process say that there still are significant...

NIST Refutes Allegations NSA Compromised Crypto Standards

UPDATE–The revelations last week in leaked NSA documents that the intelligence agency had influenced the standards process at NIST to allegedly deliberately weaken unnamed cryptographic algorithms have spurred a huge amount of speculation and discussion in the security community about the...

Bruce Schneier on the NSA, Cryptography and Trust

Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer Bruce Schneier about the revelations of the NSA’s capabilities to subvert and weaken cryptographic algorithms, security products and standards, and what it will take to help defeat these capabilities. Download: digitalunderground125.mp3 Subscribe to the...

NSA: Steve Jobs is the real Big Brother and iPhone buyers are zombies

As we reported yesterday that, your Smartphone is a goldmine for the US National Security Agency NSA, they have the full access to your Data available on your Smartphones including Android, iPhone and Blackberry. But among other Smartphones, iPhone apparently is the most popular with the National...

NASA website Hacked; Protest by Hackers against US action on Syria and Brazil Spying

Earlier reports based on Snowden's documents revealed the existence of the NSA's PRISM program, and indicate that the National Security Agency spied on Brazilians. On other End, President Obama said that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its citizens and The United States may have to...

IETF Discussing Ways to Protect Internet Against Pervasive Surveillance

The IETF is considering a range of options to help reengineer some of the fundamental protocols that underpin the Internet in response to revelations that the NSA and other intelligence agencies are conducting widespread, dragnet-style surveillance online. The group, which is responsible for...

NSA: Steve Jobs is the real Big Brother and iPhone buyers are zombies

As we reported yesterday that, your Smartphone is a goldmine for the US National Security Agency NSA, they have the full access to your Data available on your Smartphones including Android, iPhone and Blackberry. But among other Smartphones, iPhone apparently is the most popular with the National...

NASA website Hacked; Protest by Hackers against US action on Syria and Brazil Spying

Earlier reports based on Snowden's documents revealed the existence of the NSA's PRISM program, and indicate that the National Security Agency spied on Brazilians. On other End, President Obama said that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its citizens and The United States may have to...

Questions About Crypto Security Follow Latest NSA Revelations

As security experts and cryptographers continue to debate and discuss the implications of the revelations of the NSA’s capabilities against various encryption protocols and systems, some of the larger Internet companies are taking steps to protect their users’ data against the new threat. Google,...

Can we Trust Google ? Company Speeding up Strong Encryption Program in response to NSA surveillance

Trust is something that's earned, not given. We trusted tech companies with our data because they promised to keep it secure. That trust was called into question after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that NSA is snooping on us with the help of same tech companies. Today Google...

Snowden files : NSA can crack almost any Encryption including Tor anonymity network

The spy agencies' activities have gone on for more than a decade. Now we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, another explosive news has emerged yesterday from the Snowden files that NSA has the ability to decrypt most of anything that is on the internet. They have do...

Can we Trust Google ? Company Speeding up Strong Encryption Program in response to NSA surveillance

Trust is something that’s earned, not given. We trusted tech companies with our data because they promised to keep it secure. That trust was called into question after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that NSA is snooping on us with the help of same tech companies. Today Google...