VPN provider 'Proxy.sh' sniffed the traffic of US based server to Catch Hackers

The very first question we always try to figure before choosing a trusted VPN service - Can't a VPN provider just look at my traffic all they want and see what I'm doing? Well, a reputated VPN provider today answers the Question and admitted that they sniffed the traffic on one of its United...

Email Spam Claims US Attacks Syria and Leads to Malware

A new phishing campaign is disseminating malicious links with emails purporting to come from CNN saying that the United States has initiated military strikes against the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. One such email, obtained by Kaspersky Lab and posted on Securelist, comes...

Russia grants one year asylum to Edward Snowden, The Most wanted man on Earth

Edward Snowden, the former U.S. The intelligence contractor wanted for revealing the National Security Agency's secret program to collect American phone and internet records, left at Moscow airport after Russian authorities granted him temporary asylum for one year. Mr Snowden's lawyer Anatoly...

Russia grants one year asylum to Edward Snowden, The Most wanted man on Earth

Edward Snowden, the former U.S. The intelligence contractor wanted for revealing the National Security Agency's secret program to collect American phone and internet records, left at Moscow airport after Russian authorities granted him temporary asylum for one year. Mr Snowden's lawyer Anatoly...

US Top Source of Web Application Attacks

The United States is no longer the most obese country in the world thanks to Mexico, but it still ranks No. 1 as the preeminent global source of Web-based attacks, according to the Imperva Web Application Attack Report. The report also notes that attackers are targeting retail-related application...

Edward Snowden made public appearance at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport

Whistleblower Edward Snowden made a public appearance yesterday at a Moscow airport, beside a staff member of the Wikileaks organization, met with representatives of a half-dozen or so human rights groups. Snowden has not been seen in public and was stuck in the transit area of Moscow’s...

FAA Civil Aviation Registry Vulnerable to Data Breach

The Federal Aviation Administration’s FAA Civil Aviation Registry lacks proper security controls to prevent unauthorized access to its systems, according to a report based on a recent audit undertaken by the Office of the Inspector General OIG for the United States Department of Transportation Do...

Snowden says, NSA works closely with Germany and other Western state for spying

In an interview to be published in this week's of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states. The interview was conducted by US cryptography expert Jacob Appelbaum and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras using encrypte...

Snowden says, NSA works closely with Germany and other Western state for spying

In an interview to be published in this week's of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states. The interview was conducted by US cryptography expert Jacob Appelbaum and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras using encrypte...

Hidden microphone found in Ecuador's embassy in UK

A hidden microphone was found in Ecuador's embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is sheltering from extradition to Sweden, The Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino claimed. The microphone was found in the office of the ambassador Ana Alban and was discovered last month...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Services Specification Request Email Messages on August 29, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29868 First Published: 2013 July 1 18:53 GMT Last Updated: 2013 August 29 12:36 GMT Version: 9 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a business specification and outlines for the recipient. The text in the...

Edward Snowden applies for political asylum in Russia

A Russian immigration source informed that the US intelligence agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for political asylum in Russia. Few days back, Russian president Vladimir Putin has said Russia would never hand over Mr Snowden over to the United States but that if Snowden wants to st...

Edward Snowden applies for political asylum in Russia

A Russian immigration source informed that the US intelligence agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for political asylum in Russia. Few days back, Russian president Vladimir Putin has said Russia would never hand over Mr Snowden over to the United States but that if Snowden wants to st...

Russian President rejected US demand to extradite Edward Snowden

Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to extradite National Security Agency Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Tuesday, says since Snowden has not committed a crime in that country, the government will not extradite him back. Putin said, "Mr. Snowden is a free man," Snowden di...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden claims, NSA has been hacking China since 2009

Edward Snowden, the self confessed NSA Whistleblower of secret surveillance documents, claimed Wednesday that the United States intelligence agents have been hacking computer networks around the world, specially Chinese targets since 2009. Snowden alleged that the Prism program, which collects...

NSA collecting phone records of millions of US citizens daily

The National Security Agency is collecting telephone records for millions of Americans without informing the individuals involved. The shocking news has been revealed by 'Guardian' whose journalists had access to a "Top Secret" court order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, issued in April against...

Politics, Uncertainty Slowing Down U.S. Response to Cyber Threats

WASHINGTON–The shift in the last few years to cyberespionage and online attacks against the nation’s critical infrastructure have left the United States government lagging behind, and “a day late and a dollar short”, the former director of the National Security Agency said. The ongoing campaigns...

National Security Data on Private Networks Exposed as a Weak Point

The United States intelligence community and its counterparts in law enforcement are quite secretive about their surveillance methods and the targets of those operations. Few people are privy to information about ongoing surveillance, but now it turns out that the Chinese government may have a...

Air Force Classifies Some Cybersecurity Tools as Weapons

The United States government for years has been developing and deploying offensive cyber capabilities, most of it done without much in the way of public notice. That’s been changing of late, as government and military officials have become more open in discussing these capabilities and under what...

U.S. and Russia–Not China–Lead List of Malicious Hosting Providers

China has become the go-to bogeyman behind every cyber attack or malware campaign, but if you’re looking for the most malicious hosting providers on the Web, you won’t find any of the top 10 in China. In fact, the United States and Russia have many more bad hosting providers in the top 20 than...