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Microsoft will now tell users of its email services when their accounts are being attacked by government hackers. The change in policy comes as Reuters reported that the company chose not to tell thousands of Hotmail users that their email accounts had been hacked by Chinese government officials. Security experts for the company reportedly found evidence in […]
Wristband and armband devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers could be used by attackers to spy on you! We have discussed several times about the possibility to exploit IoT devices to spy on individuals. Lack of security by design and poor security settings could open the door to hackers. A Smartwatch or afitness tracker can […]
Cybercriminals are using the friendly face of Facebook and Twitter to distribute banking trojans that are specifically targeting Brazilians. The attackers are targeting Brazilian Portuguese-speaking users and are using social engineeringtactics to trick them into downloading a Spy Banker Trojan, according to a Dec. 10 Zscaler blog post. The threat actors use the social media platform […]
Tech expert warns that ‘smart toys’ could be hacked in to under powers being proposed in draft Investigatory Powers Bill. Britain’s intelligence agencies could take over children’s toys and use them to spy on suspects, MPs have been told. Antony Walker of techUK said that anything connected to the Internet could “in theory” be hacked […]
ONLINE AD NETWORKS and search engines love it when you surf around. Everything you do—every page you load, every query you type—helps them build a profile of you, the better to sell ads targeting your interests. Spy agencies are probably also happy to track your online moves. But today they’re all having trouble figuring me […]
Dark-web deadbeats may not be as anonymous as they think. A bloke in the US was charged on Friday after FBI spyware caught him downloading child sex abuse material. Luis Escobosa, of Staten Island, admitted to Feds he broke federal child pornography laws by viewing depraved photos on a hidden Tor service. Unknown to Escobosa, […]
What could have been the motivation for Snowden to become the whistleblower? This question intrigued many ever since Edward Snowden, the ex-NSA contractor, leaked intelligence documents and sought asylum in Moscow. Two of the top intelligence officials of the US intelligence community share a common thinking on this question. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairperson of the […]
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), had alleged through his leaked documents that the NSA along with its British counterpart GCHQ monitored the email traffic of Ehud Olmert in last days of his tenure; others being intercepted were Ehud Barak and the Hebrew University’s Institute of Physics—a renowned center […]
Academics from all over the world have joined hands in form of a protest against mass surveillance. There has been an increasing uproar about privacy encroachments; thanks to many such revelations that have highlighted the degree of surveillance a person can face. To counter this unprecedented level of surveillance, academicians around the world have come […]
The NSA’s whistle blower Edward Snowden has said that ‘’he has already won, he has achieved what he dreamed of ’’ especially when journalists around the world got keen to expose what NSA has been doing since 2001. In an interview to the Washington post, ex – NSA tech Snowden said that it is satisfying […]
A leaked two-page pamphlet for NSA employees reveals the organization instructed each employee on some key “talking points” to bring up in conversations with friends and family over thanksgiving to rebut many common opinions following Snowden’s leaks. A PDF copy containing a 2 page memo has been obtained by Firedoglake, and the memo contains talking […]
An ultimate level of spy has been manufactured by the BAE systems as part of their contract with DAPRA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency). The spy can keep track an entire city from an altitude of 20,000 meters From the people and insects moving on the land to the birds in the air it can track everything with ease. […]