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Even during August’s holiday season, if you type ‘hacktivists’ in Google News – just for the last week you will get more than 300 news reports mentioning attacks conducted byfamous hacktivists and hacking groups. However, not all of them are actually launched by the original “brand” owners. Several weeks ago, a financial company contacted High-Tech […]
HTTPS and VPN traffic broken with new semi-practical attack. Two scientists from the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) have published new research that details an attack that recovers data from TLS (HTTPS) traffic that was encrypted with 64-bit ciphers, more precisely with Triple DES (3DES) and Blowfish algorithms. Encryption is a […]
Exploit against Cisco’s PIX line of firewalls remotely extracted crypto keys. In a revelation that shows how the National Security Agency was able to systematically spy on many Cisco Systems customers for the better part of a decade, researchers have uncovered an attack that remotely extracts decryption keys from the company’s now-decommissioned line of PIX firewalls. […]
This week there has been a lot of news about a flaw in Windows that could be used by web sites to easily gain access to a visitor’s Windows login name and password. When I tested this flaw it was downright scary. Using a test site for this flaw, the site was able to get my […]
Attack from the ’90s resurfaces more deadly than before. A flaw in how Windows handles old authentication procedures for shared network resources can leak a user’s Microsoft account username and password, or VPN credentials if the user is using a VPN to surf the Internet. The exploit relies on an attacker embedding a link to an […]
Vivaldi 1.3.534.3 comes with WebRTC IP leak protection. Buried in a snapshot version of the Vivaldi browser released today, there’s a crucial security feature that none of the major Web browsers have, and that is native support for preventing WebRTC leaks that could expose a user’s IP address, even from behind proxies or VPNs. WebRTC stands […]
Short Bytes: Selecting the right VPN service to fulfill your needs is a monumental task. Keeping in mind the same, a Reddit user has made a massive VPN comparison chart that features 111 services at the moment. The chart compares these services on various parameters like privacy, data logging, pricing etc. People are using VPN […]
Researchers have found that thousands of Internet gateways, routers, modems and other embedded devices share cryptographic keys and certificates, exposing millions of connections to man-in-the-middle attacks that open the door to more extensive intrusions that jeopardize encrypted data. This type of certificate reuse and sharing of SSH keys is apparently all too common among connected […]
Attackers can unmask users hidden under a VPN connection. A vulnerability into how VPN providers deal with port forwarding exposes the real IP address of some users, say the network security experts from Perfect Privacy, a VPN provider. According to their research, some conditions must be met for this to happen, but none of them is […]
Researchers show how mass decryption is well within the NSA’s $11 billion budget. For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange as a defense against surveillance from the US National Security Agency and other state-sponsored spies. Now, researchers are […]
Public Wi-Fi networks seem really convenient don’t they! Whether you are at McDonald’s (or just any other food joint offering an open Wi-Fi network for that sake), roaming around your college campus, just one tap of a button on your smartphone and voila the power of an internet connection rests in your hands. With hackers […]
TunnelBear is one of the most loved VPN (Virtual Proxy Network) services because of its simplicity and clean interface. Now, the company has decided to make this service even handier by launching an extension for your Google Chrome browser. So, now you can maintain your privacy more easily. Keeping aside the advantages of the anonymity, […]