The Future Of Smartphone Security
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Am I legally allowed to sell you the means to hack into bank accounts? Suppose I marketed a product that advertised: LAN/WLAN Active Password Sniffer. Captures even SSL-encrypted data like Webmail, Video Portals, Online-Banking and more.
• NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
The NSA runs a massive, full-time hacking operation targeting foreign systems, the latest leaks from Edward Snowden show.
The NSA runs a massive, full-time hacking operation targeting foreign systems, the latest leaks from Edward Snowden show.
On Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 27), the New York Times' website became inaccessible, and was spotty much of Wednesday (Aug. 28). How could one of the biggest media companies in the world go down for a day or more?
Last week Siobhan Gorman of The Wall Street Journal reported that National Security Agency analysts have occasionally used vast surveillance tools to spy on love interests.
What in the world is happening to our financial markets?
"...you may never drive your car again after you see how a couple of government-funded tech guys were able to hack into, and take control of, one reporter’s vehicle — while he was driving it."
Nasdaq has halted trading because of a technical problem.
The New York Times website mysteriously went offline today (Aug. 14), with at least one unverified report claiming the newspaper's servers were victims of a cyberattack.
A day after Lavabit, the secure email service used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, shuttered its doors, a more high-profile secure-communications provider also decided to end its email service.
Using a malware script, a security expert finds that wirelessly controlled — and supposedly safe — Philips Hue LED bulbs can be maliciously hacked and turned off for sustained periods.
The Army has taken several steps to crack down on these leaks and infiltration and is relying heavily on troops keeping a suspicious eye on their fellow troops, especially in the intelligence community.
Kim Dotcom, of Megaupload scandal fame, is building an encrypted email system that runs on "cutting-edge" encryption technology, reports RT.
Ok, all you PC and Android users out there: be warned. The Wall Street Journal just broke the story of FBI agents using malware on smartphones and PCs to listen to individuals suspected of wrong doing.
As soon as you try to crack it, the encryption changes.
Has anybody made the (possible) connection of the death of Michael Hastings, a wanted man by the military industrial complex for his expose that ended General McChrystal's career, and Barnaby Jack,.....
Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.
Bestowing terrifying new definitions on the phrases “backdoor vulnerability” and “security hole,” one of the world’s most luxurious toilets has been exploited by hackers.
As soon as you try to crack it, the encryption changes.
Academic advances suggest that the encryption systems that secure online communications could be undermined in just a few years.
A hacking group accused of being operated by the Chinese army now seems to be going after industrial control systems.
** WTF?? Whatever happened to anti-authoritarian hackers?? Note the sociopathic-nerd enablers of tyranny lick the boots of a scum by CHEERING & CLAPPING LOUDER, when Alexander replies "I have, you should, too!" back to a heckler shouting "read the Co
Two computer hackers who have successfully managed to hack into and manipulate a pair of widely-owned automobiles will present their findings at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas this week, various media outlets are reporting.
As technology advances, it is becoming more of a double-edged sword, improving our quality of life while at the same time making us more vulnerable to hazards and unconstitutional behavior in ways we've never been.
Security Research Labs (SRL) states that SIM cards in smartphones could be utilized by hackers to gather online banking account information. Indeed, an estimated 500 million subscriber identity module (SIM) cards have been identified as having vul
The usernames, passwords and email addresses of the Ubuntu Forums' more than 1.8 million users were exposed in a cyberattack that defaced the site's homepage Saturday (July 20) and caused administrators to temporarily suspend operations.
Hackers have already started to make Google Glass do a whole bunch of things that Google has forbidden the device to do. And thanks to a 24-year-old named Stephen Balaban, they may soon be able control the device even more.
There won't be any federal agents at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas this August.