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A group of researchers only needed $104 and 8 hours of Amazon's cloud computing power to hack the NSA's website. And their feat was made possible by a bug that, ironically, was practically created by the NSA itself and its anti-encryption policie
Researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have uncovered more evidence tying the US National Security Agency to a nearly omnipotent group of hackers who operated undetected for at least 14 years.
"The patch [to keep US government hackers out] failed," HP researchers wrote in a blog post published Tuesday morning. "And for more than four years, all Windows systems have been vulnerable to exactly the same attack that Stuxnet
Sending an email message is like sending a postcard, says scientist Andy Yen in this thought-provoking talk: Anyone can read it.
The Central Intelligence Agency has announced a sweeping reorganization, introducing a new Directorate dedicated to cyber-espionage and establishing ten new cross-directorate 'mission centers'.
Computers running all supported versions of Windows are vulnerable to "FREAK," a bug that for a decade has made it possible for attackers to decrypt HTTPS-protected traffic passing between vulnerable end-users and millions of websites.
A group of researchers only needed $104 and 8 hours of Amazon's cloud computing power to hack the NSA's website.
Autonomous weapons could be hacked and turned against us, said Peter W. Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at the think tank New America Foundation, at the first annual Future of War Conference on Tuesday.
A phone so secure, its makers will pay you if you can hack it
When I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose was QUANTUM. This is the NSA's program that allows the agency to hack into computers.
Phishers are sending out links that, when clicked, quietly alter the settings on vulnerable routers to harvest online banking credentials and other sensitive data from victims.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden didn't mince words during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session on Monday when he said the NSA and the British spy agency GCHQ had "screwed all of us" when it hacked into the Dutch firm Gemalto to steal cryptographic
Update Feb 18, 2015: Matthew posted an update on the Phase II cryptanalysis today
A civic hacker has made that data available to app developers by doing what the MTA claimed would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete--simply tapping into websites that the agency has already built.
Another quarter of leaks of ubiquitous US espionage in every corner of the world, and sure enough we get another quarter of China just saying no to spending any more money on companies...
How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
The CIA's approach to conventional espionage is increasingly outmoded amid the exploding use of smartphones, social media and other technologies. Plans call for increased use of cyber capabilities in almost every category
NSA and GCHQ told to stop pretending that law doesn't apply to them after revelations that they gained access to Dutch manufacturer Gemalto's encryption keys
How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
NSA/GCHQ Hacked Leading Manufacturer of SIM Cards; Stole "Keys To the Encryption Castle"
"I cannot speak to the contents," he said. "Except that they are mine. This is the only salient detail as far as I'm concerned. I am not on trial, nor is my data, and I am under no obligation to speak for it. But my property is
The IRS has a standard called IDES: "The International Data Exchange Service is an electronic delivery point where Financial Institutions and Host Country Tax Authorities can transmit and exchange FATCA data with the United States."
My hopes were dashed upon reading about Lynch's response to a question from former Saturday Night Live writer Al Franken. The subject of his question? Aaron Swartz and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
An intuitive, visual interface could make cybersecurity way less boring
A year ago, the Department of Justice threatened to put Fidel Salinas in prison for the rest of his life for hacking crimes.
Operatives from both the National Security Administration and the British Government Communications Headquarters joined forces to crack mobile phone encryption. Succeeded in stealing untold numbers of encryption keys
Over the weekend, it was reported that the NSA was scrambling to get ready for a new "leak" about their operations, which was uncovered by a "non-US" cybersecurity company.
A cyberespionage group with a toolset similar to ones used by U.S. intelligence agencies has infiltrated key institutions in countries including Iran and Russia, utilizing a startlingly advanced form of malware that is impossible to remove once it's
In 2009, one or more prestigious researchers received a CD by mail that contained pictures and other materials from a recent scientific conference they attended in Houston. The scientists didn't know it then, but the disc also delivered
