FBI Warning Users About Financial Malware Beta Bot

The FBI began warning computer users about the Beta Bot Trojan this week, sounding the alarm about malware that has targeted a variety of online payment platforms and financial institutions over the few last months. According to an intelligence note prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center...

Kali Applications Automatic Installer Script: KAAIS

KAAIS Kali Applications Automatic Installer Script Let’s you easily install some applications which doesn’t come by default with the Kali Linux distribution. It’s user friendly and it incorporates some other things. It also gets updated regularly. Features Skype VideoChat Application TeamViewer...

Israel's Verint Systems get a contract from Indian government for interception program

Soon in December this year, India’s new surveillance program - Centralized Monitoring System CMS will be able to analyze all telecommunications and Internet communications in India by the government and its agencies. This means that everything we say or text over the phone, write, post or browse...

Microsoft Asks AG to Let It Publish Detailed Data Request Information

Microsoft, responding to allegations that the company has helped the NSA circumvent encryption in Skype and Outlook.com and provided direct access to data from those and other services, says that it does none of those things and is petitioning the government for permission to publish more...

Microsoft handed over encrypted messages key and Skype calls access to NSA

New top secret documents provided by Edward Snowden exposed that Microsoft worked hand-in-hand with the United States government and handed the NSA access to encrypted messages and built a series of backdoors into Outlook.com, Skype, and SkyDrive to ease difficulties in accessing online...

Microsoft handed over encrypted messages key and Skype calls access to NSA

New top secret documents provided by Edward Snowden exposed that Microsoft worked hand-in-hand with the United States government and handed the NSA access to encrypted messages and built a series of backdoors into Outlook.com, Skype, and SkyDrive to ease difficulties in accessing online...

Screen Lock Bypass Bug Exists in Skype Android App

A vulnerability in Skype’s Android application could enable an attacker to bypass the lockscreen on some Android phones, giving them full access to the device if it’s in their possession. According to Pulser, a moderator at the popular Android forum XDA Developers, the bug is in Skype version...

Skype Android Lockscreen Bypass

Tested with Skype version 3.2.0.6673 released 1st July 2013 on various Android devices Sony Xperia Z, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Huawei Premia 4G The Skype for Android application appears to have a bug which permits the Android inbuilt lockscreen ie. pattern, PIN, password to be bypassed relatively...

After Viber, Saudi Arabia threatens to block WhatsApp and Skype

Viber was blocked last week for non-compliance by The government of Saudi Arabia and Now they may move to block Skype and WhatsApp in the coming weeks, if the U.S. based messaging provider fails to comply with requirements set by the country's telecom regulator. CITC confirmed that they could tak...

After Viber, Saudi Arabia threatens to block WhatsApp and Skype

Viber was blocked last week for non-compliance by The government of Saudi Arabia and Now they may move to block Skype and WhatsApp in the coming weeks, if the U.S. based messaging provider fails to comply with requirements set by the country's telecom regulator. CITC confirmed that they could tak...

NSA's PRISM spy program, mining data from nine biggest Internet companies

The National Security Agency, part of the U.S. military reportedly has a direct line into the systems of some of the world's biggest Web and tech companies, i.e Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Skype. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, 6-year-old program which...

NSA's PRISM spy program, mining data from nine biggest Internet companies

The National Security Agency, part of the U.S. military reportedly has a direct line into the systems of some of the world’s biggest Web and tech companies, i.e Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Skype. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, 6-year-old program which...

Skype < 6.3.0.105 Multiple Vulnerabilities (credentialed check)

The version of Skype installed on the remote host is earlier than 6.3.0.105 and is therefore potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An error exists related to the Click to Call Service c2cservice.exe that could allow a local attacker to cause arbitrary DLL files to be loaded,...

Skype for Windows < 6.3.0.105 Multiple Vulnerabilities (uncredentialed check)

According to its timestamp, the version of Skype installed on the remote Windows host is potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An error exists related to the Click to Call Service c2cservice.exe that could allow a local attacker to cause arbitrary DLL files to be loaded, thus...

Does Microsoft spy on Skype conversations?

Skype … once upon a time a VOIP application considered very secure and wiretap-proof, it was the common belief that no one could intercept such communications due a complex mechanism for the management of audio / video and text streams. One day, Microsoft decided to buy the product, according to...

Does Microsoft spy on Skype conversations?

Skype … once upon a time a VOIP application considered very secure and wiretap-proof, it was the common belief that no one could intercept such communications due a complex mechanism for the management of audio / video and text streams. One day, Microsoft decided to buy the product, according to...

Social Engineering Skype Support team to hack any account instantly

You can install the industry's strongest and most expensive firewall. You can educate employees about basic security procedures and the importance of choosing strong passwords. You can even lock-down the server room, but how do you protect a company from the threat of social engineering attacks?...

Social Engineering Skype Support team to hack any account instantly

You can install the industry’s strongest and most expensive firewall. You can educate employees about basic security procedures and the importance of choosing strong passwords. You can even lock-down the server room, but how do you protect a company from the threat of social engineering attacks?...

Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt. Bitcoin is a non-governmental, fully-digital currency based...

Shylock Trojan Going Global with New Features, Resilient Infrastructure

The prolific, credential-stealing Shylock banking Trojan is growing increasingly sophisticated as its creators continue adding new modules and functionalities to the man-in-the-browser malware, according to a Symantec report. To this point, Shylock has made its money via man-in-the-browser attack...