Bruce Schneier, BT’s security futurologist, is leaving the company after eight years. In June 2013 he joined the board of digital rights firm Electronic Frontier Foundation, and has – since the Snowden revelations began – been a fierce critic of NSA/GC…
Big Botnet, Posing as Firefox Add-on, Scans Web for SQL Vulnerabilities
A slaving operation masquerading as a legitimate add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser has created a 12,500-PC strong botnet army whose purpose is to find exploitable websites.
Department of Energy Failed to Address Known Cybersecurity Weaknesses
The US Department of Energy’s failure to address known cybersecurity weaknesses was a direct cause of a July 2013 data breach that affected more than 104,000 individuals, according to federal auditors.
61.5% Web Traffic Comes from Bots
The internet is a pretty busy place, with traffic increasing year over year exponentially. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, global IP traffic has increased more than fourfold in the past five years, and will increase threefold in the com…
China’s Plot to Brick the US Economy
NSA Information Assurance Director Debora Plunkett made a remarkable accusation on CBS 60 Minutes: the NSA had spotted and foiled a plot to unleash a supervirus capable of bricking computers. “The attack would have been disguised as a request for a sof…
Disqus May Not Have Been Hacked; But It Was Certainly Exploited
Earlier this week a politically motivated group of Swedish investigative journalists linked some supposedly anonymous right-wing comments posted via Disqus to their actual authors. While several of the authors freely admitted to the posts, it also led …
100% of Top Paid Android Apps Have Been Hacked
Word that mobile malware is rather pervasive has been making the rounds for months, but a new report has found that a shocking 100% of the Top 100 paid Android apps and 56% of the Top 100 paid Apple iOS apps have been hacked. Averaged together, users h…
64-bit, Tor-enabled Zeus Variant Spotted in the Wild
Perhaps it was inevitable, but a 64-bit version of the Zeus banking trojan has been spotted in the wild – and it now comes enhanced with Tor.
Sweden’s Intelligence Agency has Access to NSA’s XKeyscore system
Sweden has sometimes been called the ‘Sixth Eye’ – referring to the English-speaking Five Eyes SIGINT alliance – suggesting a close working relationship between Sweden’s FRA and the NSA and GCHQ. New documents suggest that it has access to the XKeyscor…
Sweden’s Intelligence Agency has Access to NSA’s XKeyscore system
Sweden has sometimes been called the ‘Sixth Eye’ – referring to the English-speaking Five Eyes SIGINT alliance – suggesting a close working relationship between Sweden’s FRA and the NSA and GCHQ. New documents suggest that it has access to the XKeyscor…