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Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for two severe flaws in Windows Defender. The flaws were discovered by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a unit of the UK’s spy agency GCHQ, which dispenses cyberdefense advice to the government and public. Just last week, for example, the NCSC told UK agencies hosting information classified ‘secret’ never to […]
Israeli Spies Hacked Kaspersky and Found Russian Hackers Exploiting the Antivirus software to Obtain US Intelligence Secrets. We earlier reported that Russian state-sponsored spies and Moscow-based cybersecurity and software developer firm Kaspersky Lab were secretly cooperating with each other as the company’s antivirus software was used by Russian hackers to steal NSA exploits after compromising […]
By now you might be aware of Marcus Hutchins, the hero who halted WannaCry ransomware and was arrested by the FBI at Las Vegas airport when he was about to catch a flight back to London, his hometown. The reason for the arrest was his alleged involvement in developing and distributing Kronos banking malware that stole […]
Are you sensitive as to internet privacy? If so, then the IP Bill will definitely not be your favorite decision. What is this decision and how will it affect people everywhere in the world? According to the Investigatory Powers Bill, all communications will suffer the lack of privacy online. The Internet Service Providers will need to […]
NSA’s spying and surveillance capabilities are not hidden from anyone now especially when it comes to cell phone conversations made by unsuspecting local citizens. However, what comes as a great surprise is that NSA and the British Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) have been listening to in-flight cell phone conversations of passengers since 2005. This means, […]
The head of of the GCHQ believes that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks could be eliminated completely if internet service providers (ISPs) were to completely rewrite their software and its code. The technical director of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, Ian Levy, is already preparing to engage in talks with ISPs, such as BT, […]
Short Bytes: The government security agencies try to intercept information about people on the internet. The agency takes the help of companies which provide network recording products to suck information from the internet. According to leaked documents, GCHQ took the help of Endace to create mass surveillance systems. The term “surveillance” was there in the […]
GCHQ is legally allowed to hack into computers, tablets and smartphones owned by the public, a tribunal has ruled, after a legal challenge was brought by Privacy International. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled on Friday that a “proper balance” has been struck in how GCHQ uses the ability to access devices using computer network […]
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 […]
Image | GCHQ Short Bytes: NSA’s British counterpart GCHQ has just open sourced its spying tool named Gaffer. The software is written in Java and serves the purpose of a mass-scale graph database. Read more about the software below and find the link to its code on GitHub. At fossBytes, we love open source technologies and […]
The UK’s digital spy agency, GCHQ, has admitted for the first time in court that it hacks computers, smartphones, and networks in the UK and abroad. GCHQ’s use of hacking — known in official parlance as computer network exploitation or CNE — has been an open secret since the Snowden revelations in 2013, but a legal […]
Since joining Twitter, Edward Snowden is more active than ever. In his latest revelation, the whistleblower has claimed that the British intelligence agency (GCHQ) obtained a massive amount of communication data that was travelling through Pakistan in its search for terrorists. This identification spree from the Britain involved hacking into routers of users back in Pakistan, […]
Short Bytes: In a recent interview, Edward Snowden has said that spy agencies have lots of tools that could be used to hack your entire smartphone with a single “exploit” text message. You are not safe. The security agencies spread all across the world have a wide range of tools that could be used to […]
Short Bytes: Do you have a feeling that NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ spied on you? Well, how to confirm this? Using a new tool released by the Privacy International, a British civil liberties group, you can find out. Earlier this year, Privacy International won a legal battle. Now, if a person requests the UK […]
The common perception is that a strong password is always a good password, but GCHQ thinks otherwise; urging people to use “simple passwords” to keep themselves protected from online threats. According to the new guidelines outlined in a report prepared by GCHQ in the password guidance report, it urges that passwords should be short and less confusing which […]
Crucial information held by some of the most senior ministers of David Cameron (including Home Secretary Theresa May) has possibly landed in the hands of extremists- claims Intelligence agency GCHQ It was identified in an investigative report from the GCHQ that the so-called Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) group have collaborated to steal sensitive information held by David Cameron’s […]
A radome at RAF Menwith Hill, a site with satellite uplink capabilities believed to be used by ECHELON (Wikipedia) Short Bytes : According to the latest Snowden revelations and a report from The Intercept, NSA/GCHQ’s top secret surveillance program Project Echelon has been spying on the US allies, enemies, and its citizens for last 50 […]
The most powerful intelligence and spy agency of Pakistan, specifically Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has now planned to tap all the Internet traffic that is entering or travelling through the international undersea cables passing through the country’s southern port city of Karachi. For those of you who don’t know, every government seems to be interested in […]
According to the latest documents revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart, Government Communications (GCHQ) Headquarters have reverse engineered the popular security firm Kaspersky Lab and other security solutions providing companies. The US and British spy agencies have launched this attack on the anti-virus companies since 2008 […]
Summary: New surveillance laws will be formed to force the leading Internet firms such as Apple, Facebook and Google to hand over encrypted messages from supposed terrorists. Reportedly, all the internet bigwigs will now have to provide access to encrypted conversations from criminals and suspected terrorists to British spying agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. This plan […]
With the recent reports making media headlines about how the NSA and GCHQ have compromised millions of SIM keys manufactured by Gemalto, a Dutch company, one needs to be aware of the security measures that could be adopted to keep their smartphones reasonably protected safe if not unassailable. There are technologies to assist in phone […]