Paris is being used to justify agendas that had nothing to do with the attack
• TheGuardianThe Paris attackers weren't Syrian, and they didn't use encryption, but the US government is still using the carnage to justify attempts to ban them both
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Hacking, Cyber Security
The U.S. government doesn't know what technology to blame for the Paris attacks
• theverge.comEncryption is enemy number one
U.S. Government Moves To Exploit Paris Terror Attacks To Ban Privacy
• Zero HedgeLast week, the British Prime Minister told Parliament that he wants to "ensure that terrorists do not have a safe space in which to communicate."
Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI?
• Schneier on SecurityResearchers discovered this vulnerability and submitted it to CERT. Neither the researchers nor CERT disclosed it to the Tor Project. Instead, they used it to deanonymize hidden service visitors and provide the information to the FBI.
Tor Attack Could Unmask New Hidden Sites in Under Two Weeks
• motherboard.vice.comA research project conducted by Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) could have unmasked newly-launched Tor hidden services in just two weeks, according to a source familiar with SEI's work
Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy
• theintercept.comLAST MONTH, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square.
Banking without banks: Bit2Me is building the 'Uber of finance'
• http://bravenewcoin.com, Luke ParkerThe October 2015 Fintech Americas' Hackathon in Miami, sponsored by Visa and Cobiscorp, awarded a grand prize of US$10,000 to Bit2Me, a small startup based in Alicante, Spain, for its new mobile app, Hive.
It's Way Too Easy to Hack the Hospital
• bloomberg.comBy Monte Reel and Jordan RobertsonFirewalls and medical devices are extremely vulnerable, and everyone's pointing fingers
It's Way Too Easy to Hack the Hospital
• http://www.bloomberg.comIt's Way Too Easy to Hack the Hospital Firewalls and medical devices are extremely vulnerable, and everyone's pointing fingers
Not So Securus
• theintercept.comMassive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege
The kernel of the argument
• Washington PostFast, flexible and free, Linux is taking over the online world. But there is growing unease about security weaknesses. [We only want to help.]
The trust machine
• The EconomistBitcoin's shady image causes people to overlook the extraordinary potential of the "blockchain", the technology that underpins it. This innovation carries a significance stretching far beyond cryptocurrency. Simply, it is a machine for creating
CIA Email Hackers Return With Major Law Enforcement Breach
• WiredCrackas With Attitude gained access to a portal for law enforcement that grants access to arrest records and other sensitive data, including what appears to be a tool for sharing information about active shooters and terrorist events, and
Feds Never Charged the Real Hacker in the Matthew Keys Case
• WiredFormer Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys is facing up to 25 years in prison after his conviction last month on conspiracy charges on a hack of the Los Angeles Times web site. Keys didn't actually conduct the hack, prosecutors aggressively purs
Teen who hacked CIA head going after FBI official
• http://thehill.com, By Katie Bo WilliamsThe teenaged hackers who exposed the personal email account of CIA head John Brennan are hacking into more government officials' accounts in retaliation for the FBI investigation into their actions.
Teenage Hackers Say They've Doxxed More Than 3,500 Government Employees
• MotherboardTeenage hackers who claim to have broken into the AOL email account of the CIA director are at it again, and this time they might have actually broken into government computers.
Facing Growing Encryption, Law Enforcement Recommends More Informants
• theintercept.comAs the widespread use of encryption starts to make surveillance more challenging, one of the nation's fusion centers has a proposed solution: More informants.
Signal, the Snowden-Approved Crypto App, Comes to Android
• WiredSince it first appeared in Apple's App Store last year, the free encrypted calling and texting app Signal has become the darling of the privacy community, recommended--and apparently used daily--by no less than Edward Snowden himself.
Hackers target Vatican accountant's computer
• http://www.arcamax.com, DPAThe computer belonging to an accountant appointed by the Vatican to clean up the Catholic church's books has been hacked, Italian media reported Saturday.
The storm isn't over yet for Ashley Madison cheaters
• nypost.comOpening up his Yahoo e-mail, John R. couldn't help but be startled by the subject line of a message declaring: "You got busted."
Microsoft Releases Updates To Spy On Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 Users
• hackread.comBack at the beginning of this month, we reported that how Microsoft has planned to spy on its users by releasing their latest operating system Windows 10.
CIA Director's AOL Account Hacked by US Teen
• prisonplanet.comInfowars speaks with member of "Crackas With Attitudes" hacking group
Internet porn viewers 'should expect viewing histories to be made public'
• http://www.independent.co, Alexander SehmerBlogger warns that 'regular people' are the likely target for the next big internet privacy breach
NSA Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again)
• Schneier on SecurityThe Internet is abuzz speculating the NSA is breaking the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol in the wild through massive precomputation. What's newly talked about is how this works inside the NSA surveillance architecture.
Russia 'tried to cut off' World Wide Web
• telegraph.co.ukA failed experiment to cut Russia from the World Wide Web stokes fears of Chinese-style online censorship
Here's Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers
• http://motherboard.vice.comA coalition of 260 cybersecurity experts is taking advantage of a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) public comment period to push for open source Wi-Fi router firmware.
Cyber insurance premiums rocket after high-profile attacks
• http://www.reuters.comA rash of hacking attacks on U.S. companies over the past two years has prompted insurers to massively increase cyber premiums for some companies, leaving firms that are perceived to be a high risk scrambling for cover.
Security News This Week:
• WiredThe US Won't Force Companies to Build It Backdoors--For Now
European Court of Justice Rules Against Safe Harbor
• Schneier on SecurityThis is a big deal, because it directly affects all the large American Internet companies. If this stands, expect much more pressure on the NSA to stop their indiscriminate spying on everyone.
SHA-1 Encryption Broken
• Schneier on Security.... This is the first practical break of the full SHA-1, reaching all 80 out of 80 steps, while only 10 days of computation on a 64 GPU cluster were necessary to perform the attack. ....
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