Wednesday, 18 December 2013 In an angry exchange with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel has compared the snooping practices of the US with those of the Stasi, the ubiquitous and all-powerful secret police of the communist dictatorship in East Germany, where… Read More ›
Technology
Devices that fire microwave blasts, scrambling cars’ onboard computers, could soon allow the authorities to rein in suspect vehicles
Police could use radio waves to bring cars to a halt 12 December 2013 by Paul Marks Magazine issue 2947. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the Cars and Motoring and Crime and Forensics Topic Guides IMAGINE you… Read More ›
Snowden latest: NSA stalks the human race using Google, ad cookies
Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you By Iain Thomson Posted in Security, 12th December 2013… Read More ›
Dozens of G20 diplomats had computers hacked after clicking on an attachment labelled ‘To see naked pictures of Carla Bruni click here’
Security breach was first discovered at the G20 summit in Paris in 2011 Message sent to those attending including finance ministers The former supermodel became President Nicolas Sarkozy’s third wife She was well known for taking her clothes off in… Read More ›
Death of global web: Internet will end in 2014 – Kaspersky Lab
Collage: Voice of Russia The Internet as a global network may cease to exist in 2014, giving way to dozens of national webs with limited access to foreign web resources, Alexander Gostev, an expert at the Kaspersky Laboratory, told reporters…. Read More ›
Spy agencies infiltrate gaming world
Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies NSA and GCHQ collect gamers’ chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life Read the NSA document: Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual… Read More ›
Drones turned into zombies using an easy Wi-Fi hack
18:56 09 December 2013 by Paul Marks For similar stories, visit the Aviation and Robots Topic Guides The zombies are coming. A hacker has shown how easy it is to use one drone to hijack another, allowing someone else… Read More ›
NSA Claims Call Spying Reports Are False
1 November 2013 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:13:57 +0100 Subject: update From: <xxxxx[at]gmail.com> To: Cryptome <cryptome[at]earthlink.net> In a letter to Dutch Parliament of October 31st [0], the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Ronald Plasterk)… Read More ›
NSA collects data revealing location of five billion mobile phones every day
The records allow US intelligence agents to establish not just the movements of individuals but to monitor who else they communicate with Lewis Smith Thursday, 5 December 2013 Almost five billion records revealing the location of mobile phones around the… Read More ›
Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens
• Secret 5-Eyes document shows surveillance partners discussing what information they can pool about their citizens • DSD indicated it could provide material without some privacy restraints imposed by other countries such as Canada • Medical, legal or religious information… Read More ›
Is it OK to torture or murder a robot?
Richard Fisher is the deputy editor of BBC Future. We form such strong emotional bonds with machines that people can’t be cruel to them even though they know they are not alive. So should robots have rights? Kate Darling likes… Read More ›
Top secret document reveals NSA spies on porn habits of suspected terrorists in bid to discredit them
Document was revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden It shows agency spied on suspected radicalizers to harm their reputations Civil liberties campaigners have voiced concerns about the revelations One says: ‘NSA surveillance activities are anything but narrowly focused’ By Daily… Read More ›
The internet mystery that has the world baffled
For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world’s finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolveable problems. But to what end? Welcome to the world of Cicada 3301 By Chris Bell 11:00AM GMT 25 Nov… Read More ›
Class Action Calls Dating Service Match.com a Giant RICO Fraud
“one of the biggest conspiracies ever executed on the Internet,”? By IULIA FILIP MANHATTAN (CN) – Match.com is “one of the biggest conspiracies ever executed on the Internet,” using thousands of photos of people who have nothing to do with… Read More ›
NY Schools Plan Called Threat to Privacy / Giving student data to a private company for storage
By MARLENE KENNEDY ShareThis ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) – New York’s plan to turn over massive amounts of student data to a private company for online storage violates privacy laws and could expose the information to hacking, a dozen parents… Read More ›
Government Told to Explain Need for Secrecy “But says it’s a Secret “
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – The U.S. government must explain why a Feb. 19 order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court cannot be released to the public, even in a redacted form, a FISC judge ruled. In September 2013, Judge… Read More ›
NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities “anyone, anytime, anywhere.”
Latest Snowden leak reveals NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities Published time: November 23, 2013 04:05 The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb) In a mission statement last year the… Read More ›
Mystery traffic redirection attack pulls net traffic through Belarus, Iceland
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. By John Leyden Posted in Security, 22nd November 2013 13:58 GMT Tons of internet traffic is being deliberately diverted through locations including Belarus and Iceland, and intercepted by crooks or worse,… Read More ›
US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons’ personal data
• 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material • UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet • Separate draft memo proposes US spying on ‘Five-Eyes’ allies James Ball theguardian.com, Wednesday 20 November 2013 14.00… Read More ›
Obamacare website ‘either hacked or will be soon’ Exposing highly sensitive and personal information about US citizens, warns infosec expert
And it won’t be from hacktivists wielding dud ‘Destroy Obama Care’ ray gun By John Leyden Hackers have thrown multiple attacks at US President Obama’s medical insurance bazaar HealthCare.gov since it went live in October, according to a senior US… Read More ›
Fisa court documents reveal extent of NSA disregard for privacy restrictions
Incensed Fisa court judges questioned NSA’s truthfulness after repeated breaches of rules meant to protect Americans’ privacy Fisa court judge John Bates found that the NSA engaged in ‘systemic overcollection’. Photograph: Paul J Richards/AFP Newly declassified court documents indicate that… Read More ›
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time
Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way The NSA’s metadata trawl was approved by a judge who felt the agency was asking for ‘exceptionally broad’ permission to… Read More ›
Feds Grilled on the protocol for shutting down wireless networks in the event of a national crisis.
Feds Grilled on Network Shutdown Procedures By RYAN ABBOTT WASHINGTON (CN) – A government watchdog group will get its hands on documents that map out the protocol for shutting down wireless networks in the event of a national crisis. U.S…. Read More ›
Obama permits Russian GPS stations to be built on U.S. Soil / While opposed by the CIA and Pentagon
American spy agencies don’t want Russian GPS sites in their backyard Planto let Moscow build monitor stationson US soil, as a gesture to improve diplomatic relations, is opposed by the CIA and Pentagon PUBLISHED : Monday, 18 November, 2013, 5:30am… Read More ›
Anonymous claims Parliament Wi-Fi hack during London protest
Cyber assaults ‘slow traffic’ as miscreants slurp email logins By Jasper Hamill Posted in Security, 12th November 2013 16:03 GMT Anonymous hacktivists have claimed they used laptops to launch cyber attacks against the British government whilst attending a protest in… Read More ›
Germany warns US facilities could be targeted in wake of NSA leaks
Published time: November 12, 2013 22:13 The entrance to the US Airbase is pictured in Ramstein, southern German (AFP Photo / Daniel Roland) Officials in Germany have cautioned authorities to prepare for possible attacks against United States facilities overseas as… Read More ›
Security researcher Cédric ‘Sid’ Blancher dead at 37
Skydiving accident claims Wifitap author By Richard Chirgwin Posted in Security, 12th November 2013 00:59 GMT Security researcher Cédric “Sid” Blancher has reportedly been killed in a skydiving accident in France. At the time of writing, details of the accident remain sketchy…. Read More ›
Rogue US-Israeli cyberwar weapon ‘infected Russian nuclear plant’
Even the space station has been infected by malware, claims Kaspersky By John Leyden, 11th November 2013 Stuxnet – the famous worm widely credited with crippling the Iranian nuclear weapons programme for several years – also infected the internal network of… Read More ›
GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn site to target global mobile traffic exchange and OPEC – report
Published time: November 11, 2013 00:23 Edited time: November 11, 2013 01:05 Satellite dishes are seen at GCHQ’s outpost at Bude, close to where trans-Atlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest England (Reuters/Kieran Doherty) The UK’s electronic spying… Read More ›
Britain ‘snooped’ on Icelandic officials’ emails to recover cash from broken banks
Published time: November 10, 2013 12:06 AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm An Icelandic MP says Britain spied on Iceland while wrestling to rescue its citizens’ cash from collapsed Icelandic banks after the financial crisis. Birgitta Jónsdóttir claims she received… Read More ›
Quantum ‘sealed envelope’ system enables ‘perfectly secure’ information storage
Contact: Adrian Kent apak@damtp.cam.ac.uk 44-122-376-0379 University of Cambridge A breakthrough in quantum cryptography demonstrates that information can be encrypted and then decrypted with complete security using the combined power of quantum theory and relativity – allowing the sender to dictate… Read More ›
Terrorists and Criminals may now exploit all the vunerabilities the NSA and GCHQ had built into our systems
Berners-Lee: ‘Appalling and foolish’ NSA spying HELPS CRIMINALS Crooks rush in where spies boldly tread, says internet godhead By Jasper Hamill Posted in Security, 7th November 2013 14:58 GMT Sir Tim Berners-Lee, granddaddy of the internet, has attacked the NSA and… Read More ›
Illegal tapping in the Netherlands: lawyers and journalists sue Dutch minister for NSA links
Dutch Interior Minister Ronald Plasterk is being taken to court by a group of individuals and organizations in connection with his handling of the NSA phone and internet taps. The group, which includes the Dutch journalists association, privacy… Read More ›
Thousands of celebrities including Tom Hanks, LeBron James and Donald Trump left exposed after limo firm to the stars is hacked
By James Nye PUBLISHED: 02:10 EST, 5 November 2013 | UPDATED: 10:52 EST, 5 November 2013 An Internet security firm says a limousine software company has been hacked, exposing credit card numbers and potentially embarrassing details about close to… Read More ›
Crack our ‘military-grade’ email encryption and we’ll give you 5% of our firm
Hungarian startup tries novel bug-testing system By Iain Thomson Posted in Security, 5th November 2013 00:03 GMT Vulnerability testing is commonplace these days, and a lucrative business for some, but a Hungarian biz is offering an unusual prize for anyone… Read More ›
Smile, Tesco Big Brother is watching you queue – to cue tailored ads ( Facial Recognition )
Chris Stevenson Sunday 03 November 2013 Customers at Tesco now face the prospect of having their faces scanned while they queue for the till as the supermarket tries to better target advertising towards customers. The system, developed by Amscreen,… Read More ›
Anonymous hacked off with Singapore’s menacing net rules plan / for ‘misleading the people’
Hacktivist attacks The Straits Times for ‘misleading the people’ By Phil Muncaster Posted in Government, 1st November 2013 04:30 GMT A hacktivist claiming to be part of Anonymous has backed a call by Google, Facebook and others to scrap proposed… Read More ›
Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection
NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows • Tapping fibre-optic cables – see the NSA slide Ewen MacAskill and Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Friday 1 November 2013… Read More ›
Obamacare website security at ‘high risk’ before launch -memo / ” sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and birth dates that could be used by criminals “
Source: Reuters – Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:02 PM Author: Reuters By Jim Finkle BOSTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – The security of the Obama administration’s healthcare website was at “high risk” because of lack of testing before it opened for… Read More ›
NSA ‘broke into Yahoo and Google data centers to obtain millions of records every day’… and leaked doodle shows how spy agency did it with a smiley face
The Washington Post cites documents leaked by Edward Snowden In 30 days, the NSA gleaned 180 million new records including text, audio and video – and who sent it to whom and when they sent it NSA: Claims that we… Read More ›
Russian report says Chinese appliances hide Wifi slurping spam-spreaders
DON’T BREW THAT CUPPA! Your kettle could be a SPAMBOT By Simon Sharwood Posted in Security, 29th October 2013 07:03 GMT Russian authorities have claimed that household appliances imported from China contain tiny computers that seek out open WiFi networks… Read More ›
Ukrainian thugs scam State Dept, highlighting flaws in ‘diversity visa’ program
Posted By Brendan Bordelon On 8:48 AM 10/29/2013 In | No Comments Ukrainian fraudsters are duping the State Department’s diversity visa program to extort cash from Ukrainian citizens and gain access to American Social Security numbers, a new report by… Read More ›
There’ll Be Revolution Alright Russell – And It’ll Be Thanks to the Internet ( A possible scenario ) ( U.K. )
Hannah Lippitt Journalist who works in digital media Posted: 28/10/2013 15:41 As the world and his dog are by now well aware, multimillionaire comedian Russell Brand has called for “revolution” and for the disempowered everywhere to rise up against “elites” (governments… Read More ›
Briton Held Over US Government Hacking Claims
4:04pm 28th October 2013 A British man has been charged by US authorities over the alleged hacking of government computer systems, including US Army and Nasa networks. Lauri Love, of Stradishall, England, and his partners allegedly stole information about… Read More ›
The Bank of America Keyword list is confirmed ( Hundreds of Classified Project Titles )
Engineering Evil Commentary on the code word list: The original release of the Keyword list was 28 FEB 2013. Since then the URL of the hacking group has been taken down. The hypothesis behind the confirmation is due to that… Read More ›
NSA asked Japan to tap regionwide fiber-optic cables in 2011
Kyodo Oct 27, 2013 Article history Online: Oct 27, 2013 Print: Oct 27, 2013 Last Modified: Oct 27, 2013 The U.S. National Security Agency sought the Japanese government’s cooperation in 2011 over wiretapping fiber-optic cables carrying phone and Internet data… Read More ›
Euro Parliament axes data sharing with US – the NSA swiped the bytes anyway
Hacking claims now probed by Continent’s cops By Iain Thomson Posted in Government, 24th October 2013 18:24 GMT The European Parliament has voted to halt the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), an agreement to share data on financial transactions… Read More ›
How The NSA Deploys Malware: An In-Depth Look at the New Revelations
We’ve long suspected that the NSA, the world’s premiere spy agency, was pretty good at breaking into computers. But now, thanks to an article by security expert Bruce Schneier—who is working with the Guardian to go through the Snowden documents—we… Read More ›
NSA Denies Website Outage Is The Result Of A Cyberattack ( Still down as of 7:30pm PST)
Brian Jones and Paul Szoldra Oct. 25, 2013, 6:10 PM Arturo Rodriguez / Associated Press Despite speculation that mystery hacker-group “Anonymous” is behind it, the NSA has denied their official website being down is the result of… Read More ›
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