So due to the UK government being dicks and forcing all UK ISPs for store logs for 1 year of all visited websites, I decided to go ahead and start using a dedicated VPN service. I had a look around and decided that NordVPN was going to be the best […]
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Well that’s not good, not good at all. The new bill will force internet companies to store their users’ browsing data for a year, and will allow the government to force phone makers to hack into people’s handsets. The House of Lords has passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, putting the huge […]
A security researcher has claimed that Mikey-Sakke, the security protocol behind the GCHQ-developed Secure Voice encryption standard, has a built-in backdoor that allows the UK spy agency to intercept and snoop on phone calls. The findings come from Dr Steven Murdoch of University College London, who published a […]
Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a cyber-attack on the US Census Bureau which resulted in the posting of personal employee data online. The online collective ‘fessed up in a tweet on Wednesday, with four JustPaste links to the information. The breached data appears to include email addresses, phone numbers, job titles and names of […]
HACKING TEAM AND BOEING SUBSIDIARY INSITU , ENVISIONED DRONES DEPLOYING SPYWARE. There are lots of ways that government spies can attack your computer, but a U.S. drone company is scheming to offer them one more. Boeing subsidiary Insitu would like to be able to deliver spyware via drone. The plan is described in internal emails from […]
In the past thirty days an increase attack activity has been observed using the “njRAT” malware. This remote access trojan (RAT) has capabilities to log keystrokes, access the victim’s camera, steal credentials stored in browsers, open a reverse shell, upload/download files, view the victim’s desktop, perform process, file, and registry […]
The former contractor for NSA, Edward Snowden, became famous for revealing PRISM, a confidential mass surveillance program run by the U.S. agencies to eavesdrop on any electronic media. The whole world realized that Big Brother is real and, yes, he is watching you. It is not a fiction any longer. […]