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Ironically, companies that offer information security services are also exposed to malicious hackers; they’re even a great target. Experts from the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released a report warning about serious vulnerabilities in some of the most popular virtual private network (VPN) services. The companies noted in […]
Members of the aviation industry are concerned about a potential security risk for the pilots and crew of some aircraft. “Today any system is exploitable, aviation is not safe from malicious hackers,” says Mark Lepak, vulnerability testing specialist. The problem is related to the Controller Area Network system (commonly known as CAN bus). This cable […]
Edward Snowden departed for Russian territory in 2013, after he decided to disclose classified information about US National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance activities, according to information security experts, shortly after he landed in Moscow he was arrested by the authorities. A Russian intelligence officer later informed him that his passport was cancelled by the US […]
In 2017, a group of hackers identified as Shadow Brokers leaked a set of the most sophisticated hacking tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA); cybersecurity specialists point out that these tools were later used in NotPetya and WannaCry attack campaigns, which are two variants of highly aggressive malware that crippled operations in […]
Attackers target critical servers using three of the NSA-developed hacking tools, including DarkPulsar, which were leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacking group According to reports of experts in digital forensics, various groups of hackers take advantage of DarkPulsar, DanderSpritz and Fuzzbunch, hacking tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), to infect the Windows Server 2003 and […]
The flaw would allow hackers to bypass security measures by invisible clicking According to a research carried out by an expert in enterprise network security, a Mac computer with the latest version of the Apple Sierra operating system could be attacked by adjusting only two lines of code. Patrick Warder, a former National Security Agency (NSA) […]
The security agency is eliminating millions of phone calls and text messages records dating for technical failures. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) announced that it is eliminating hundreds of millions of phone call records and text messages dating back to 2015. The agency will be eliminating this call records because some months ago pentest experts […]
NSA announces a change in its surveillance activities, it will no longer spy on citizens’ emails, texts, and other Internet communications. It is official, the US NSA announced it will no longer spy on emails, texts and other internet communications that mention targets of surveillance.The NSA issued the official statement last week, announcing a historical change of tactic […]
The SHA1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) cryptographic hash function is now officially dead and useless, after Google announced today the first ever successful collision attack. SHA1 is a cryptographic hash function used generate hashes for digital data, hashes that, in theory, should be unique for each data blob, and used to sign and attest to […]