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On May 23rd, The American intelligence agency NSA started the process of deleting the call records it has obtained from US telecom companies since 2015. The number is in hundreds of millions, according to NYTimes. NSA announced the move in a statement last week where it noted that “technical irregularities in some data received from telecommunications service providers” […]
The Intercept, the publication known for its groundbreaking reports, has come up with another revealing piece (via TechCrunch) about the National Security Agency. The report describes 8 AT&T data facilities that serve as hubs for NSA’s spying activities. The eight facilities are located in major US cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, LA, New York City, San […]
Less and less computer security professionals, use anti-virus programs nowadays. This is primarily due to the gradually decreasing level of protection provided by commercial antiviruses. Most antivirus software developers prefer not to talk about this fact, and only a few admit that “bad guys got better”. But even then they claim that they can’t cope […]
The new Annual Statistical Transparency report published by the Office of The Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) gives the highlights of NSA’s surveillance campaigns. In 2017, the agency sourced the metadata of over 530 million call records related to targets. That’s more than three times than the data collected in 2016, i.e., 151 million. The metadata […]
Security researcher tweaks exploits stolen from the NSA last year to affect nearly all versions of Windows. Exploits that were stolen from the NSA last year and which were believed to target older Windows releases have been tweaked to potentially impact all versions of Microsoft’s operating system back to Windows 2000. Security researcher Sean Dillon […]
The Spectre and Meltdown flaws were enough to make people uncomfortable, a report published by the Wall Street Journal sheds more light on the matter. The publication, claiming sources, reported that Intel informed some of their customers about the vulnerabilities before the US government including Microsoft, Amazon, and Chinese companies Alibaba and Lenovo. However, Intel didn’t […]
A former National Security Agency hacker has admitted to illegally taking highly classified information from the agency’s headquarters, which was later stolen by Russian hackers. Nghia Pho, 67, a Maryland resident who worked for the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations, the agency’s elite hacking unit, entered a guilty plea on Friday to charges of willful retention […]
Critical data that belongs to United States Army Intelligence Security Command (INSCOM) and (National Security Agency) NSA data leaked online Which contains internal data and virtual systems used for secret communication over the Internet. The cloud leak followed by Pentagon’s Data Leak which exposed than 1.8 billion posts of content of social media contents that […]
The world-renowned encrypted email service provider ProtonMail is back in the news for yet another good reason. The Switzerland based firm has announced the launching of “the world’s first encrypted contacts manager” called ProtonMail Contacts which works with ProtonMail’s email system and aims at protecting user data. The contact manager equipped with two highly sophisticated features including zero-access encryption […]
The Texas National Guard bought two DRT 1301C cell-site simulator devices for more than $373,000. The purpose of buying these devices was to intercept calls and monitor text messages and photos. These devices were then installed on two surveillance planes. However, it isn’t clear how the cell-site simulators were or are used and if a […]
Earlier this week, a new, widescale ransomware campaign was spotted by security solution firms. Named Bad Rabbit, this malware is spreading as a disguised Adobe Flash Player installer. After the installation, the files are encrypted and the victim is asked to pay the ransom. As per Cisco Talos, Bad Rabbit appears to be based on […]
Apparently, a pirate download of Microsoft Office could be the root of all the trouble. Kaspersky has acknowledged that code belonging to the US National Security Agency (NSA) was lifted from a PC for analysis but insists the theft was not intentional. In October, a report from The Wall Street Journal claimed that in 2015, the Russian firm targeted […]
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian government-sponsored hackers have managed to steal extremely sensitive information about classified spying tools used by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). The information was hacked after an unnamed NSA contractor who is an expert at hacking computers and tracking communications, stored the classified information on his […]
NSA is one of the world’s most powerful government agencies. But that doesn’t mean it’s immune from different security threats and hacking attacks. The past track record of NSA, thanks to Edward Snowden and others, is a proof in itself. According to a report from WSJ, NSA’s classified data, which wasn’t supposed to leave the facility’s […]
If you’re able to wipe the dust off your memories, you might remember Edward Snowden–the guy who defamed the National Security Agency by revealing their surveillance secrets in 2013. Now, a part of the documents leaked by Edwards Snowden, released by The Intercept, exposes another unsurprising thing about the spying activities conducted by the NSA. […]
The ShadowBrokers is a group of hackers known for leaking exclusive information about the National Security Agency – NSA’s hacking tools and tactics. In their latest leak, they have released the UNITEDRAKE NSA exploit, which is a remote access and control tool that can remotely target Windows-based systems to capture desired information and transfer it […]
WikiLeaks Revealed a new document of CIA Secret operations called “ExpressLane” that conducts against CIA’s information sharing Service Partners (liaison services) like NSA,DHS ,and FBI. These Secret operation Performing for collecting the BioMetric Information around the World by helping of CIA’s own biometric collection system Branch called OTS (Office of Technical Services). Few days before CIA Hacking Tool Revealed, […]
Microsoft has decided to not urgently release a patch for the vulnerability in its Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. In June 2017, two researchers from RiskSense Security namely Sean Dillon and Jenna Magius identified a flaw in Microsoft’s file sharing protocol. The flaw, dubbed as SMBLoris, was identified while researching upon the NSA’s EternalBlue SMB […]
Eternal Blues, a tool used in finding computers and Endpoints vulnerable to the NSA’s ETERNALBLUE exploit. All we need to do is just to hit a scan, and it will generate the vulnerability report. EternalBlue Malware infecting Windows based Server Message Block (SMB) protocol Developed By National Security (NSA) and believes that it has been […]
According to the latest analysis, the NSA has media secrets “detour parts of Internet traffic that move in the global communication cables,” which allows you to ignore the protections implemented by Congress to limit the Internal surveillance of Americans. So, Technique that NSA uses to spy Americans. Traffic Shaping, Technique that NSA uses to spy Americans […]
The Shadow Brokers have published a new message today, gloating about the damage caused by the NotPetya ransomware, and threatening to expose the real-life identity of an alleged NSA employee, who they say has been mocking the group on Twitter. In their message, the group also boasted about have “many many subscribers” to their monthly […]