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Federal Judge: NSA Surveillance Program is Legal & Counter Punch to Al-Qaeda

A federal judge has said in his ruling that spying and collecting personal information of American citizens is completely legal and a ”counter-punch” to eliminate al-Qaeda’s terror network. A New York federal judge has given a ruling that National Security Agency (NSA)’s PRISM surveillance and spying program is legal. The ruling is opposite to ruling that […]

Security Expert Highlighting Links between Predominant Website Vulnerabilities and Cyber Warfare

In the Following Issue we will discuss the impacted vulnerability, their particular information and details, proof-of-concept code, as well as their special recommendations, regarding fixing those issues. Security researchers of the High-Profile websites, mostly discover their related vulnerabilities as the highly effective zones. Nicholas Lemonias is an expert researcher, and he is of the belief that such […]

Critical Vulnerability: Buy Any Product on eBay in just 0.01 USD

Ever thought to buy an iPhone or a Play Station for free? well you could but its too late now, as an Indian security researcher going with the handle of Ishwar Prasad Bhat had found a critical vulnerability on the world’s largest online shopping website eBay that allowed users to buy any product in just […]

SMS Fake Installer tricking Android Users

Nathan Collier of Webroot ThreatVlog, talks about an old, but still active, SMS Fake Installer, a Russian based program used to trick phone users to send premium text messages, costing money to the user. Nathan talks about how these threats work, how this threat is different, and the easiest way to stay protected on your […]

Israel Airport Security is now Allowed to Read Tourists Emails

Israel Airport Security is now Allowed to Read Tourists Emails The officials at Ben Gurion airport of Israel have announced that from now on they are authorized to read tourists’ email accounts by demanding them the login details and accept or deny the entry on the bases of content present in the email. Attorney General […]

BlackBerry Users Vulnerable to Hackers

Caution! Black berry users may become subject to a malicious act from hackers. The security advisory services of blackberry have recently indicated a threat from hackers by pointing out the possibility of a penetration into the BlackBerry servers. Hackers may do it embedding or planting a venomous code on the BES which is also used […]

Supreme Court of Nepal Website Hacked by The Hackers Army

A Pakistani based hacker going with the handle of THADisasteR from The Hackers Army has hacked into the official website of Nepal’s supreme court (supremecourt.gov.np) along with two of its sub-domains (dcourt.gov.np) and (acourt.gov.np).  The hacker who contacted me via email told that the hack was just a test of skills and a warning for site […]

Google Blocks Twitpic for Malware Risk

Google has blocked around million of Twitter accounts today when the search engine found malicious malware on Twitter’s picture sharing service. The Twitpic, was mentioned as a ”malicious threat” to computers. The search engine giant blocked the visitors from accessing the Twitpic and any image hosted by the picture sharing service from its search results […]