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Security agencies can spy on you through your laptop and smartphone cameras — It’s time to cover them. With new and modern technology comes great responsibility for us as users to continue taking care and worrying about our privacy. Technology has done so much in our lives, connecting us to family, friends, and lost friends; […]
Oliver Stone’s masterpiece is coming — Here is the latest trailer for ‘Snowden,’ The Movie Oliver Stone is known for depicting famous real life stories on screen. And the list of his highly successful real-life depictions includes the Scarface, Kennedy assassination, the Watergate break-in, the Vietnam conflict, and the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror.’ The latest to […]
Ransomware has become the scourge of the web in recent months. Hospitals thrust back into the non-digital age, their files locked up until they paid hefty ransoms in Bitcoin. Schools suffering the same fate. A variant called Locky spreading like wildfire, nearly a million infections in a week. Another, Jigsaw, surfaced this week using imagery […]
WhatsApp has added end the end encryption but in this article, you will learn “everything is not what it seems” WhatsApp has been getting plaudits for recently updating their encryption. The popular messenger service app recently added end to end encryption to its devices thus restricting any outside interferences from seeing messages that are not […]
ShortBytes: In a recent find out, it has been revealed how NSA implants trojan firmware in the networking devices being delivered to the targeted customers. You can also read an interesting description from an NSA manager about how it works. Ahoarded document which was fetched from the National Security Agency files released with Glenn Greenwald’s […]
A trove of leaked documents obtained by an international team of journalists (“biggest leak in history”: A 2.6-terabyte stash of data) show our so called leaders have been stealing more money than one can imagine A huge leak of confidential tax haven documents has been leaked. The leak dubbed the Panama Papers implicates the rich […]
The FBI has hacked into the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook and it didn’t even require for Apple’s help The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims that it has finally managed to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino suspected shooter without Apple‘s assistance — The hack also proves ex-NSA’s spy Edward Snowden right when he called the […]
Short Bytes: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is known to be a long-time advocate of free and open source software. Speaking at an event via video conferencing, he said that transparency of free software convinced him to use TOR, Tails, and Debian, that helped him to expose the secrets of American government. At the Free Software […]
ProtonMail claims its NSA-proof and provides 100% encrypted email service to its users Those in need of encrypted email service have reason to cheer up and relax since the world’s largest encrypted email provider ProtonMail is now offering open registrations. The email service provider firm is reportedly leaving beta and launching its iOS and Android mobile […]
Apple has hired one of the developers behind Signal app — The app which has been used and endorsed by Edward Snowden So it seems that the Apple is hell bent on providing greater and superior security to its consumers, regardless of the controversy going on nowadays regarding giving access to alleged terrorists’ iPhone to the […]
Necessity is the mother of invention, the old adage has proved its worth again when a German-based company has successfully won the trust of privacy-conscious Internet users. The trend for using encrypted email service started after Snowden leaks. Several firms took on the NSA and came up with end-to-end email encryption system. Recently, a similar […]
Six years ago, the cyber-attacks barely reached 25,000. Utah officials are saying that the number of cyber-attacks they’ve seen against local state organizations has grown exponentially in the past six years. In a quote to KUTV, a Salt Lake City TV station, Keith Squires, Utah Commissioner of Public Safety, says things have evolved since 2010 when […]
Utah state computer systems experiences 300 million hacking attacks a day due to NSA data center in the state. 300,00,000 hacking attempts in a day! This is what the computer systems for the state of Utah are subjected with, at a rapid fire rate. All this due to a NSA data center situated in the state. […]
To date, it has always been reported that drones can potentially be hacked and a few cases where they, in fact, had been successfully hacked. What we were never privy to were the detailed images of those hacked drones. However, thanks to The Intercept, this is no longer the case. The Intercept revealed that the […]
Rare public appearance from Tailored Access Operations leader. USENIX ENIGMA The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is a notoriously secretive organization, but the head of its elite Tailored Access Operations (TAO) hacking team has appeared at Usenix’s Enigma conference to tell the assembled security experts how to make his life difficult. Rob Joyce has spent […]
Over the years, I have written many articles here on Null Byte chronicling the many the hacks of the NSA, including the recent hack of the Juniper Networks VPN. (By the way, my speculation in that article has proven to be correct. The NSA did embed a backdoor on those devices.) Many readers here have […]
Short Bytes: Your perception about NSA might change a little after reading the statement by a former director of NSA, General Michael Hayden, where he is trying to see some value in the personal data. He defended end-to-end encryption by calling it good for America. NSA talking about the data privacy? Does not look absurd? […]
Researchers contradict Juniper claim that Dual_EC_DRBG weakness couldn’t be exploited. Juniper Networks, which last month made the startling announcement its NetScreen line of firewalls contained unauthorized code that can surreptitiously decrypt traffic sent through virtual private networks, said it will remove a National Security Agency-developed function widely suspected of also containing a backdoor for eavesdropping. […]
A security flaw in Blackphone 1 smartphone allowed anyone to take control of the device Blackphone 1 smartphones, one of many privacy-focused phones in the market was found to have a critical vulnerability which allowed attackers to hijack the phone until a recent fix from the manufacturer. The flaw was discovered by a team of […]
The Hell hacking forum is back from the hell and now available on the Dark Web. The Dark Web hacking forum named Hell was shut down last year when a data dump of personal details of users was found on the website. However, a few months after its reported shutdown by authorities, Hell is back. […]
Surveillance is fin..what! They are spying on us! An outrage!. After two years of doing little about the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, the US Congress has sprung into action in less than two days – with investigations into the NSA spying on some the legislature’s members. On Tuesday the Wall Street Journal reported that […]