2013-06-15
Spying by a common citizen
A funny and interesting story of how much damage to privacy can be done by any ordinary citizen.
2013-06-14
Iranians under phising attacks
Iran. Political motive, just ahead of elections. Result is rise in Gmail phising
2013-06-09
Drupal's 1 M user accounts breached!
Quote: This access was accomplished via third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself.
Organziation - Data Leakage
Some disturbing statistics on employees using cloud-services to store/review organization's documents.
2013-06-07
NSA data snooping!
Unbelievable how much data these guys are spying on!
Did NSA manage to decrypt BlackBerry data as well? RIM has declined for now.
NSA Director talks about this program (named PRISM)
Was Microsoft providing vulnerabilities to NSA?
An upcoming app, which promises to defeat all these govt snooping. Already raised 100K in 36 hours!
How much does it cost the govt to eavesdrop on people? Substantial amount of money actually!
DNI Presenter a tool used by NSA to capture citizen's personal chats and messages!
FBI engaged hackers to deploy malware on Android phones.
XKeyscore – the Front End that Queries the NSA Databases
Update 10-Aug-2013:
NSA 'nicely' asks lavabit and SilentText to shut down. They were instrumental in providing end-to-end encrypted email services.
Update 17-Sep-2013:
Some open source tools to help non-NSA folks, achieve some similar reconnaissance.
Update 19-Sep-2013:
NSA purchased 0-days from Vupen (French security researchers)
Update 28-Sep-2013:
NSA even spied on Indian Embassy and UN
Update 29-Oct-2013:
Firefox launches "Lightbeem"
Update 10-Nov-2013:
Crowd sourcing project to audit TrueCrypt
Update 12-Nov-2013:
Charges against Snowden to be dropped ?!
Update 13-Nov-2013:
Google outraged over NSA's extent of spying on its data centres
Update 08-Dec-2013:
Tracking all Snowden documents
Update 22-Dec-2013:
NSA bribed [for $10m] RSA for keeping a bacdoor in their products!
Not surprisingly RSA declines it.
Update 18-Jan-2014:
Obama announces some reforms
Update 28-Jan14:
How Angry Birds helped NSA
Update 29-Jan-14:
Snowden nominated for Nobel
Update 22-Mar-14:
Google tightens HTTPS protection.
Update 08-May-14:
A few email exchanges between NSA and Google released. Doesn't say much, unlike the hype
Update 17-Oct-15:
How the NSA broke encryption (DH algo).
Did NSA manage to decrypt BlackBerry data as well? RIM has declined for now.
NSA Director talks about this program (named PRISM)
Was Microsoft providing vulnerabilities to NSA?
An upcoming app, which promises to defeat all these govt snooping. Already raised 100K in 36 hours!
How much does it cost the govt to eavesdrop on people? Substantial amount of money actually!
DNI Presenter a tool used by NSA to capture citizen's personal chats and messages!
FBI engaged hackers to deploy malware on Android phones.
XKeyscore – the Front End that Queries the NSA Databases
Update 10-Aug-2013:
NSA 'nicely' asks lavabit and SilentText to shut down. They were instrumental in providing end-to-end encrypted email services.
Update 17-Sep-2013:
Some open source tools to help non-NSA folks, achieve some similar reconnaissance.
Update 19-Sep-2013:
NSA purchased 0-days from Vupen (French security researchers)
Update 28-Sep-2013:
NSA even spied on Indian Embassy and UN
Update 29-Oct-2013:
Firefox launches "Lightbeem"
Update 10-Nov-2013:
Crowd sourcing project to audit TrueCrypt
Update 12-Nov-2013:
Charges against Snowden to be dropped ?!
Update 13-Nov-2013:
Google outraged over NSA's extent of spying on its data centres
Update 08-Dec-2013:
Tracking all Snowden documents
Update 22-Dec-2013:
NSA bribed [for $10m] RSA for keeping a bacdoor in their products!
Not surprisingly RSA declines it.
Update 18-Jan-2014:
Obama announces some reforms
Update 28-Jan14:
How Angry Birds helped NSA
Update 29-Jan-14:
Snowden nominated for Nobel
Update 22-Mar-14:
Google tightens HTTPS protection.
Update 08-May-14:
A few email exchanges between NSA and Google released. Doesn't say much, unlike the hype
Update 17-Oct-15:
How the NSA broke encryption (DH algo).
How secure are passwords?
Arstechnica plans to bruteforce 16K hashed passwords. A non-techie editor breaks 47% of them. One expert breaks 82% in one hour!!
2013-06-04
2013-06-01
The World of Financial Trojans
A symantec's report on trojans - I am sure it will be super biased by the business of the creator
Major US Weapons Compromised By Chinese Hackers
Quote:
"...[T]he cyber threat is serious and... the United States cannot be confident that our critical Information Technology (IT) systems will work under attack from a sophisticated and well-resourced opponent utilizing cyber capabilities in combination with all their military and intelligence capabilities," the public version of the DSB report said. "This conclusion was developed upon several factors, including the success adversaries have had penetrating our networks..."
Two Factor Auth
More companies finally following Google's footsteps and enabling 2FA. Twitter ; Linkedin
Update 09-Aug-2013:
Twitter's state of the art 2FA app
Update 09-Aug-2013:
Twitter's state of the art 2FA app
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