Researchers showed a Black Hat audience how femotcell technology, used by phone companies to boost cell phone coverage, can be hacked to intercept cell phone calls, text messages and other data.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
01 Aug |
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A skeptical but mostly respectful crowd of Black Hat security attendees Wednesday listened intently as National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander defended controversial U.S. surveillance programs in a keynote address.
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31 Jul |
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Noted hacker Barnaby Jack, known for exposing vulnerabilities in ATM machines and medical devices, died in San Francisco Thursday, just days before he was scheduled to speak on deadly security shortcomings in medical implants at next week's Black Hat security conference.
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26 Jul |
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Civil rights advocates view Wednesday's narrow defeat of a bill to curtail funds for the National Security Agency's domestic spy program as a sign of the growing opposition within Congress.
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25 Jul |
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Indictments filed against five persons charged a massive international hacking scheme indicate that SQL injection vulnerabilities continue to be a security Achilles heel for IT operations.
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25 Jul |
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Non-U.S. clients of American cloud hosting companies are clearly rattled by revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency collects huge amounts of customer data from Internet Service Providers and telecommunication companies.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
23 Jul |
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Cyber exercises, like the Quantum Dawn 2 drill carried out by dozens of Wall Street firms this week, can be useful in helping financial firms close critical gaps in their incident response capabilities, analysts said.
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19 Jul |
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A federal court judge in New Jersey on Wednesday agreed to allow the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other organizations to seek the dismissal of a closely watched data breach lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Wyndham Worldwide Corp.
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19 Jul |
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Fugitive classified document leaker Edward Snowden, holed up at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport since June 23, today accused the U.S. government of using 'historically disproportionate aggression' to get him back to the United States to face charges of violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
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12 Jul |
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Defcon founder Jeff Moss' request to government agencies asking them not to attend next month's annual Defcon hacker conference has evoked a mixed response from the security community.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
12 Jul |
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The fallout from the recent disclosures of the National Security Agency's secret surveillance programs continues to spread.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
08 Jul |
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A plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced into making an unscheduled stop in Austria after France and Portugal denied the plane passage over their airspace on the belief that document leaker Edward Snowden was on board, reports say.
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03 Jul |
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Former Booz Allen Hamilton employee-turned-fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden withdrawn his request for political asylum in Russia as his options for shelter in other countries appear to be dwindling.
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02 Jul |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a team of legal experts has called on the U.S. Court of Appeals to free Andrew Auernheimer, a computer hacker recently sentenced to 41 months in prison for illegally accessing data from AT&T's networks.
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02 Jul |
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Putin says Snowden must stop harming U.S. interests, but Russia unlikely to send him back
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01 Jul |
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