A federal judge has said in his ruling that spying and collecting personal information of American citizens is completely legal and a ”counter-punch” to eliminate al-Qaeda’s terror network. A New York federal judge has given a ruling that National Security Agency (NSA)’s PRISM surveillance and spying program is legal. The ruling is opposite to ruling that […]
NSA‘s whistle blower Edward Snowden has a special message for you on this Christmas. We thank Mr. Snowden for his contribution in exposing the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program. Follow @HackRead
The NSA’s whistle blower Edward Snowden has said that ‘’he has already won, he has achieved what he dreamed of ’’ especially when journalists around the world got keen to expose what NSA has been doing since 2001. In an interview to the Washington post, ex – NSA tech Snowden said that it is satisfying […]
Here, J.R. Rao, IBM Director for Security Research, explains why the idea of a digital guardian who watches for unusual behavior is not science fiction – but very close to reality.
An online poker site which did all its cash-ins and cash-outs in Bitcoin has admitted to a data breach in which 42,000 user passwords were stolen – and is instituting emergency measures to prevent the attackers gaining access to the cryptocurrency.
Tips for shoppers worried that their credit or debit cards may have been compromised by the massive security breach at Target stores.
Details of 40 million customer debit and credit cards may have leaked in a data breach at American retailer Target – which began on November 27 and ended on December 15, affecting stores at the height of shopping season.
This holiday season, shoppers are turning to mobile as a new way to hunt bargains, with purchases via mobile platforms nearly doubling year-on-year – but nearly one third of shoppers polled admitted to serious security errors, such as storing card details in smartphones.
Despite Snowden’s voluntarily offer to help Brazil in investigating National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying activities against the country, the land of beauty has no plans to grant him any kind of asylum. Reuters- Brazil carries no plans for giving asylum to Snowden even after this former contractor of NSA has offered them to be part […]
Death of a Sales Force: Whatever Happened to Anti-Virus? is a paper written by Larry Bridwell and myself for the 16th AVAR conference in Chennai, which was kindly presented by ESET’s Chief Research Officer Juraj Malcho, as neither Larry nor myself were able to attend the conference in the end. The paper is also available
The first sign we saw of this malware was in mid-May 2013, but it is still very active, and uses Android to bypass two-factor authentication systems. It clearly seeks to infect Dutch computers – 75% of detections come from this region.
The two million people who had chosen “123456” as their Adobe password were widely mocked online after the company’s security breach – but most users (and companies) hate passwords, and some have big (and surreal) ideas about what’s coming next….
(All four blog articles in this series, of which this article is the last, are available as a single paper here: The_Thoughtful_Phisher_Revisited.) From the sort of ‘visit this link and update or we’ll cancel your account’ message that we saw in the previous blog in this series (The Less Thoughtful Phisher), it’s a short step
Facebook detects and stores everything you type on the social network even if the message is not published. Most of us are very cautious about what to post on Facebook, and they, therefore, think a lot before pressing enter to post the content they have written or attached. Well, many of you would love to […]
The 2014 threat trends report from ESET’s global network of cybersecurity experts centers on three key trends, the first and foremost being digital privacy, the others being threats to mobile devices, and new, hi-tech malware targeting PCs and other devices in the home.
A Firefox add-on has turned 12,500 users of the browser into a botnet which scours every page visited by infected users for vulnerabilities. The ‘Advanced Power’ add-on ensnared 12,500 PCs – and found 1,800 vulnerable websites for its unknown creators.
A new ‘Smart ID’ card, BluStor, aims to “eliminate hacking and identity theft” – using a combination of voiceprints, fingerprints and iris readings and connecting to mobile devices via Bluetooth, so an app can confirm a user’s ID instantly.
The assault by cybercriminals against big businesses continued this year -78% were attacked by outsiders, according to a report by Price Waterhouse Cooper. But small businesses – those with less than 50 employees – are rapidly becoming a target.
The like button is a highly interactive feature of social media giant Facebook. A British public-service television broadcaster has however revealed that hackers are hacking accounts of various people and are liking pages which the hacked user has no interest in. Channel4 reports that at one instance, Richard Southard’s account shows that he is among the common […]
An international plot which would have turned huge numbers of PCs into “bricks” by using deeply buried malware was foiled by the NSA, according to an interview given to CBS by NSA director Keith Alexander. The attack could have “taken down the U.S. economy”, an NSA official claimed.
It seems as if those business which bowed down in front of NSA are now facing a backlash. That’s what we can see from several tech giants and business institutions who cooperated with the American National Security Agency (NSA) for its spying and surveillance project PRISM. These companies are now loosing billions of dollars and most […]