Yahoo’s Mayer Calls Email Outage ‘Unacceptable’: Mayer, in her blog post, went on to say: “For many of us, Yahoo Mail is a lifeline to our friends, family members and customers. This week, we experienced a major outage that not only interrupted that connection but caused many of you a massive inconvenience—that’s unacceptable and it’s […]

60 Minutes Puff Piece Claims NSA Saved U.S. From Cyberterrorism: Well, don’t we feel just a little bit ashamed today. While we’ve been whining about trivia like the frightening scope of the NSA’s domestic spying programs – scooping up all our cell phone records, wiretapping American tech companies – the criminally poor oversight provided by […]

Judge Rules Against NSA Collection Program: A federal district court judge’s ruling that a National Security Agency program collecting metadata from telephone calls could be unconstitutional suggests that the law hasn’t kept pace with changing technology. Federal District Judge Richard Leon of the District of Columbia ruled on Dec. 17 that the program apparently violates […]

Pensioners sue IBM over reported NSA involvement: A pension investment group has sued IBM, claiming that the company failed to warn investors that sales in China would slow dramatically following revelations that IBM was helping the U.S. National Security Agency spy on the Chinese. ”IBM was well-aware that its association with the U.S. spy program […]

Security prediction for 2014: It will get worse: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you probably saw this coming. Multiple indicators suggest that, bad as this year has been for Internet security, 2014 will be worse. Much worse.At least that’s the opinion of Steve Wexler, a journalist specializing in corporate technology […]

Spy Satelite, permanent drone. Hacker Satellite: A spy satellite (officially referred to as a reconnaissance satellite) is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications. These are essentially space telescopes that are pointed toward the Earth instead of toward the stars. The first generation type (i.e. Corona [1] [2] and Zenit) took photographs, then ejected canisters ofphotographic film, which would descend to earth. Corona capsules were retrieved in mid-air as […]

Don’t delay! Grab the latest Microsoft and Adobe security patches: It’s what I like to call “Worry Wednesday”, the day after Patch Tuesday, when system administrators around the world furrow their brows in concern that malicious hackers will dissect the latest security patches issued by Microsoft and develop attacks which exploit the flaws. It’s obviously […]

The NSA Uses Google Cookies For Hacking: The National Security Agency is using the tracking data intended for Google’s advertisers to locate its targets. According to the Washington Post’s new analysis of an internal presentation Edward Snowden leaked earlier in the year, the NSA has been using the numeric identifiers in Google’s “PREF” cookies for […]

693450 – Add IGC/A RSA4096 SHA256 root certificate: Hi, i would like to note this issue: The French Government ANSSI made a MITM against Google SSL/TLS: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.it/2013/12/further-improving-digital-certificate.html Google does not mention who’s ANSSI. ANSSI is the French CyberSecurity agency, closely working with defense and intelligence agencies: http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/ ANSSI declare that an intermediate CA is generating fake-certificate […]

Online Reputation Companies Busted for Fake Reviews: Online reputation management has become big business. From faking positive reviews to obscuring negative information, some companies will go to any length to look good on the Internet. Now, 19 of these companies have learned that online deception may come with too high a price tag.19 Companies Fined […]