Tag: hacking
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The Fembots of #AshleyMadison
The Fembots of Ashley Madison: “Now we know that almost none of the woman in the Ashley Madison database ever used the site. The question is, was this a deliberate fraud? Or was it just a dating site gone wrong? Yesterday I published the results of my analysis of the Ashley Madison member database, which…
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Tokyo Cyber Security Competition Draws 90 Hackers
from channelnewsasia.com: A cyber security competition began on Saturday (Feb 7) in Tokyo, with organisers aiming to show off the skills of young Japanese hackers by testing them against international rivals. The final rounds of the Security Contest 2014, or SECCON, brought together 90 participants in 24 teams from seven nations and regions: China, Japan,…
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‘The Interview’ premiere canceled in wake of Sony hacker ‘9/11-style’ terror threats
from RT.com: The premiere of ‘The Interview’, the comedy ridiculing the North Korean leadership, has been canceled in New York, allegedly due to a 9/11-style terror threat. But US security officials say “there is no credible intelligence” of an attack at this time. The Sunshine Cinema in Lower East Side has made the decision to…
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#NewWorldNextWeek – The #Sony Pictures Hack: Everything We Know So Far
from thenextweb.com: Sony’s hacking story has been a long, confusing one to follow. Leaks have seemed endless since first starting and more crazy details have emerged in the last week than we’ve ever seen from the company. We still don’t know who hacked Sony Pictures, but the FBI is working to track down the source of the leaks.…
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Taiwan, A Canary In The Coalmine Of Cyber Warfare
from smh.com.au:: For the past two weeks, entertainment giant Sony Pictures has had its computers paralysed by a cyber attack that has resulted in unreleased movies and thousands of confidential documents being released. Taiwan can claim the dubious honour of being one of the most hacked, if not the most hacked, places in the world.…
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The Police Tool That Pervs Use to Steal Nude Pics From Apple’s iCloud
from wired.com: As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims’ iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may have made that cracking exploit possible in the first place.…
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Police Story: Hacking Team’s Government Surveillance Malware
from citizenlab.org: This report analyzes Hacking Team’s Android implant, and uses new documents to illustrate how their Remote Control System (RCS) interception product works. This work builds on our previous research into the technologies and companies behind “lawful interception” malware. This technology is marketed as filling a gap between passive interception (such as network monitoring) and physical searches.…
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Canadian cyber-bullying law would let police ‘remotely hack into computers, mobile devices, or cars’
from nationalpost.com: The Harper government’s new cyberbullying legislation includes little-noticed provisions that would allow police to remotely gain entry to computers and track cellphone users’ movements, privacy experts warn. Bill C-13, being studied by the House of Commons justice committee this week, is described by the Conservatives as cyberbullying legislation, but will dramatically expand the…
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Sochi 2014 Security Updates
The Sochi Olympic Games and the Threat of a Terrorist Attack. Who is Behind the Caucasus Terrorists? Putin says Boston marathon bombing by Chechen brothers justifies intense Sochi security Putin’s ‘ring of steel’ becomes obvious at Olympics Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/04/216915/putins-ring-of-steel-becomes-obvious.html#storylink=cpy Snow cannons to surveillance boxes, here’s the tech at play in Sochi Journalists to…
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US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers
NSA spies have inserted circuitry into computers in China, Russia, EU, India, Saudi and Pakistan to gain intelligence. from aljazeera.com: The United States has implanted devices in nearly 100,000 computers to spy on institutions such as the Chinese and Russian military, EU trade groups and agencies within Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan. The New York Times on Tuesday cited documents…
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Why the Syrian Electronic Army loves to hack the American media
from washingtonpost.com: The New York Times web site went down on Tuesday afternoon in an external cyber attack that appears most likely committed by the Syrian Electronic Army. The informal pro-Assad hacker collective has made a habit of targeting prominent Western media outlets, typically by seizing their Twitter feeds but sometimes hitting their sites as…
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US government declares hacking an act of war, then hacks allies
from washingtonexaminer.com: Revelations from European leaders on Monday that the National Security Agency bugged European Union offices in Washington and hacked into its computer network bring to light hypocrisy on the part of the U.S. government. In 2011, the Pentagon released its first formal cyber strategy, which called computer hacking from other nations an “act…
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Car Hacking Assassins
from PressForTruth.ca: George Orwell once said that “in a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Today activists, journalists and whistleblowers who are known for exposing corruption within our governments are finding themselves in the crosshairs of the information war. Many of the technologies at our disposal act as a double…