Bruce Schneier leaving ‘security futurologist’ position at telco employer BT: The Register first reported the employment change after receiving a leaked BT internal email. Schneier has spent months analyzing NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden and writing about government surveillance; the telco denied that Schneier’s outspoken criticism played any role in ending the work relationship […]

Anonymous engineers claim BT gives spies backdoors to customer data: Carrier BT provides the British intelligence agency GCHQ and its American counterpart the NSA with direct access to customer data through the Internet modems it supplies, claims a 50-page document posted anonymously on the Cryptome site today. The document, titled “Full  Disclosure: The Internet Dark […]

Chinese Hackers spied on European Diplomats during recent G20 meetings: Security firm FireEye has released a new report detailing cyber espionage attacks on European Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) during recent G20 meetings by Chinese Hackers. According to FireEye’s researcher Nart Villeneuve, hackers infiltrated the computer networks of five European foreign ministries by sending emails containing malware files […]

LOCKER Malware: Locker mainly spreads by drive-by downloads from compromised websites, disguised itself as MP3 files and use system software vulnerabilities to infect the end user. Once it has infected a system, malware first checks the infected machine has an internet connection or not. Then it deletes any original files from the victim’s computer after […]

Android App Sells Your WhatsApp Conversations: The actual app to watch out for is called BalloonPop2. F-Secure and others report that it was available in Google Play for a time, but has since been removed. Its currently available from the developers website.Once installed, the game actually works—though it is a dull, stripped-down affair. But F-Secure […]

Vic water authorities vulnerable to cyber attack: A state government audit into Victoria’s water authorities has revealed much of the critical infrastructure towns and cities rely upon remains vulnerable to electronic attack. The Victorian auditor-general John Doyle today warned many of the 19 water bodies would remain oblivious if a breach of their core systems […]

FBI offering $100,000 reward for information on Most Wanted Cyber Criminals: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has added five new hackers to its Cyber most wanted list and is seeking information from the public regarding their whereabouts. The men are wanted in connection with hacking and fraud crimes both within the US as well […]

Hacker group brings down Gülen movement website: A Turkish hacker group has attacked a website close to the Gülen movement, uploading a message in support of equal opportunities on its homepage. In the message posted on herkul.org, the group, describing itself as the “Committee to struggle for democratic high schools” (DlmkHack), slammed both the educational […]

This Is the MIT Surveillance Video That Undid Aaron Swartz: The video was made in January 2011, near the end of a months-long cat-and-mouse game between MIT personnel and a then-unknown user who’d been downloading millions of articles from a service called JSTOR, which provides searchable copies of academic journals online. MIT has a subscription […]

Hacker fined with $183,000 for just one-Minute of DDoS Attack: Eric Rosol, A  38-year-old hacker who joined an Anonymous hacker attack for just one minute has been sentenced to two years of federal probation and ordered to pay $183,000 fine. Yes you read right! $183,000 fine  for just 1 Minute of DDoS attack. In 2011, Eric […]