Top Cryptography Patent Holders (US): Top Cryptography Patent Holders (US) as a percentage of all US cryptography patents. 4.59%   IBM 4.31%   SONY 3.73%   INTEL 3.59%   SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS 3.01%   MICROSOFT 2.72%   PANASONIC 2.58%   CISCO SYSTEMS 2.01%   MOTOROLA MOBILITY 1.86%   ERICSSON 1.72%   ALCATEL LUCENT 1.58%   ST MICROELECTRONICS […]

If the NSA can hack your bank account, who else can?: Revelations that the National Security Agency can break through web site encryptions and access huge amounts of personal data has raised questions about how safe our day-to-day financial dealings really are. Many people carry out their entire financial lives online — doing everything from […]

FinFisher Range of Attack Tools: FinFisher is a range of attack tools developed and sold by a company called Gamma Group. Recently, some FinFisher sales brochures and presentations were leaked on the net. They contain many interesting details about these tools. In the background part of the FinFisher presentation, they go on to explain how […]

Johns Hopkins reverses decision forcing prof to pull NSA post: Johns Hopkins University was alerted earlier Monday that one of its professors wrote a blog post allegedly linking to classified National Security Agency documents. Swiftly, the university asked this professor to take down his post. However, hours later, when the school realized he was just […]

Don’t trust me: I might be a spook: Shortly after the Snowden papers started to be published, I was invited to write an op-ed about PRISM and its implications for privacy and online security. I initially agreed, but after spending a few hours putting some thoughts together I changed my mind: I really had nothing […]

In his own words: Confessions of a cyber warrior: Much of the world is just learning that every major industrialized nation has a state-sponsored cyber army — though many of the groups, including team USA, have been around for decades. I’ve met a few cyber warriors. As you might imagine, they can’t talk much about […]

An Analysis of the (In)Security State of the GameHouse Game Installation Mechanism: In January 2013, our own Chief Research Officer, Carsten Eiram encountered the latest version of the RealArcade installer provided by GameHouse on a system during an audit. With a number of recent reports about vulnerabilities in game clients/installers due to unsafe design, it […]

NSA Spied on Brazil Oil Company, Petrobras—What WikiLeaks Cables Reveal About Possible Motivation: A Brazilian television program has revealed that the National Security Agency in the United States spied on the internal and private computer networks of the oil company, Petrobras, which is partly state-owned. Globo TV’s “Fantastico” program reported top secret documents from former NSA […]

Top 10 Notorious Black Hat Hackers: To accompany the technological advancements of the computer world and the constant changing definition of a hacker, we thought it was time to look back at ten of the most notorious black hat hackers and the legendary hacks that earned them such a title. First, it should be known […]

Reversing Sinclair’s amazing 1974 calculator hack: In a hotel room in Texas, Clive Sinclair had a big problem. He wanted to sell a cheap scientific calculator that would grab the market from expensive calculators such as the popular HP-35. Hewlett-Packard had taken two years, 20 engineers, and a million dollars to design the HP-35, which […]