The Mask Malware: A 7-Year Cyber Espionage Campaign Unmasked

A sophisticated cyber spying operation, The Mask , that has been under the radar for about 7 years and targeted approximately 31 countries, has now been unmasked by researchers at Kaspersky Labs. Researchers believe the campaign has been active since 2007 and is a highly sophisticated nation-stat...

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...

'Chaos Computer Club' filed criminal complaint against German government Over Mass Spying

After the revelation of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we all very well knew the impact of it on the world, but nobody would have estimated that the impact will be so worst. The revelation, not only defaced NSA, but also its counterpart GCHQ, and various other governments which were servin...

Chainfire's Pry-Fi Android App released to defend against NSA Spying under Public Wi-Fi

Turn your face in any direction, someone is always trying to spy on you; doesn’t matter who and what you are? Just yesterday we reported that Communications Security Establishment Canada CSEC in Canada and NSA are together, running a spying program called 'game-changer'. It was revealed that the...

Angry Birds and other Mobile Gaming apps leaking your private information to NSA

Are you fond of playing games on your Smartphone like Angry Birds or Subway Surfer?? You should now stop wasting your time, because NSA is utilizing your gaming energy in the best possible way. According to the latest documents leaked by former U.S. Government contractor Edward Snowden, Some of t...

Windows Error Crash Reports or Treasure of Zero-Day vulnerabilities for NSA?

I am sure that you all have been familiar with the above shown annoying Window Operating System error messages that many times pop ups on your screen while working on the system in case of process failure i.e. "The system has recovered from a serious error. A log of this error has been created...

Your MacBook Camera could Spy on You without lighting up the warning light

If you own Apple's MacBook, you should cover up it's webcam, because there's a possibility someone could be watching you. Like most webcams, the MacBook also has a tiny green light lets you know that the webcam is active, but it's possible for malware to disable this important privacy feature on...

France Government used Rogue Google SSL Digital Certificates to Spy on users

Google has found that the French government agency using unauthorized digital certificates for some of its own domains to perform man-in-the-middle attacks on a private network. Google security engineer Adam Langley described the incident as a "Serious Security breach", which was discovered in...

Surveillance Transparency Act Would Limit NSA Spying

There have been countless hearings in both the House and Senate since the Snowden leaks began in June, and there seems to be no end in sight. The latest committee to get in on the action was the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, which held a...

Smartphones, A Perfect Cyber Espionage and Surveillance Weapon

The use of mobile devices in government environments concerns the secret service of any states, cyber espionage more often exploits the mobile platforms. Mobile devices are reason of great concern for governments, they have a great computational capability, huge memories to store our personal dat...

Rise in website Defacement attacks by Hackers around the World

Last week we noticed a rise in cyber attacks particularly - website Defacement attacks on many governments and organizations of different countries by the hackers around the world. Targeted countries include Singapore, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, Egypt, United States, Syria and many more. Out...

Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs networks hit by sophisticated Malware attack

Finnish commercial broadcaster MTV3 reports that the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affair networks has been targeted in a four-year-long cyber espionage operation. Finland's foreign minister said, "I can confirm there has been a severe and large hacking in the ministry's data network," A large scal...

China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan Wi-Fi devices to serve malware

We have discussed many times in our stories the network of Intelligent devices, their capabilities and the possibilities that cyber criminals could exploit them for illegal activities. Hidden chips are used by cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers to infiltrate company networks and...

New Zealand Government Forcing Internet Companies and Network Operators to provide Interception capability

In August the New Zealand has passed a bill that radically expands the powers of The Government Communications Security Bureau GCSB, an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government, equivalent of the National Security Agency NSA. The bill demands the companies and other network operators lik...

New Zealand Government Forcing Internet Companies and Network Operators to provide Interception capability

In August the New Zealand has passed a bill that radically expands the powers of The Government Communications Security Bureau GCSB, an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government, equivalent of the National Security Agency NSA. The bill demands the companies and other network operators lik...

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...

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...

NSA misused PRISM - Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying

Before NSA said that they has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency's authorities, but NSA had violated privacy rules on thousands of occasions. According to documents seen by SPIEGEL, Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency. The US intelligence...

NSA misused PRISM - Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying

Before NSA said that they has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency’s authorities, but NSA had violated privacy rules on thousands of occasions. According to documents seen by SPIEGEL, Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency. The US intelligence...

Fear of NSA PRISM : Indian Government may ban US email services for official communication

The Indian Government is planning to ban the use of US based email services like Gmail for official communications to increase the security of confidential government information. The recent disconcerting reports that that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an...