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Cuba Censors Text Messages That Discuss ‘Democracy’ and ‘Human Rights’

The Cuban government is found to have been filtering mobile phone text messages for key words such as “democracy” and “human rights” and then blocking them, according to an investigative report by Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and Cuban journalist Reinaldo Escobar. They discovered that text messages failed to reach their destinations if they contained Spanish words […]

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Mozilla Raises 11 Issues Regarding China’s WoSign CA

Mozilla, a free-software community, has listed a number of issues that China’s WoSign CA company is confirmed to have or suspicious of having. These 11 issues suggest WoSign CA’s poor management over its digital certificates. In one incident, WoSign CA issued 392 certificates with duplicate serial numbers, across a handful of different serial numbers between April 9, […]

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Flaw Discovered in Routers could Compromise Entire Home Network

A flaw has been discovered in some models of Inteno home routers that could give the attacker complete access to the entire home network and the traffic that passes through it. Another instance of home routers’ weak security standards has been discovered as F-Secure researchers have found a glaring vulnerability in some of Inteno home […]

100 million account details stolen from Rambler.ru
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100 million account details stolen from Rambler.ru

Data which was found on one Rambler.ru data dump shows that their hacking incident actually took place four years ago on the 17th of February 2012, and it also contained about 98,167,935 Rambler.ru user details. LeakedSource, the site where hundreds of hacked account details are hosted, says that it received data of the Rambler.ru hack […]

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Armada Collective strike Again and an Upcoming Bitcoin-Extorting DDoS Attack?

A group of cybercriminals claiming to be the Armada Collective have sent a new wave of extortion demands by email to the owners of independent and small business websites around the world, demanding bitcoin ransoms and threatening to launch a huge new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday 6 September. Many internet users […]

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German Spies Illegally Obtained Data and Must Delete XKeyscore Database, Report Said

Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German Intelligence Service, illegally collected and stored mass surveillance data and has to delete that data immediately, including XKeyscore (XKS), a formerly secret computer system first used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects on a daily basis. In a classified […]

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China’s WoSign CA found to threaten users of Let’s Encrypt CA

Before Let’s Encrypt was made available to savvy Internet users, obtaining a certificate for https meant spending a fair amount of money through trusted CA (Certificate Authorities) to gain the ability to encrypt traffic for one’s website. Let’s Encrypt has completely changed the game: Not only have they made access to a certificate free, they […]

Hacker Affected Other Hackers with Malware on Forums
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Hacker Affected Other Hackers with Malware on Forums

Every day a hacker comes in and starts to make moves to steal data or make financial gain from people. A new hacker going by the name Pahan has decided to infect some of his fellow hackers with a malware, perhaps for some personal gain. There are many hacking forums available on the Internet at […]

LeakedSource discloses two more breaches from Bitcoin sites
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LeakedSource discloses two more breaches from Bitcoin sites

LeakedSource has been at the forefront of many of the account breach disclosures. Recently they announced details about the breach of the last.fm page which showed that there had been 43 million account details which were compromised from an earlier 2012 hack. The website also said that they had several breaches and hacks to report, […]

SWIFT shows flaws in banking security infrastructure
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SWIFT shows flaws in banking security infrastructure

Security has been one of the main issues when it comes to finance and the Internet, and when the two are combined, security becomes a really big issue. However, the conventional financial system has always had problems, and some consider it to be worse in the ones that have sprung up online. One of the […]

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5 Projects In Place To Build Stronger Anonymity Systems Against State Surveillance

Tor, a free software and an open network that helps Internet users defend against traffic analysis, has grown massively in the post-Snowden era. While Tor has been praised for providing privacy and anonymity to vulnerable Internet users such as political activists fearing surveillance and arrest, ordinary web users seeking to circumvent censorship, and people who […]

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BASHLITE malware and botnets affect 1 million devices

A piece of malware has affected close to a million devices and subjected them to a version of a distributed denial of service attack. The analysis was made by the security firm, Flashpoint and Level 3 Communications. The malware which affected the devices is called BASHLITE, which is also known as Lizkebab, Torlis or Gafgyt. […]

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Kashmiris Suffer Digital Blackouts Amidst Militant Leader’s Death

Earlier in July 2016, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, also known as Burhan Wani, a young militant leader of the Azad Kashmir-based Hizbul Mujahideen was killed by state police of India. Mr. Wani was popular among the Kashmiris due to his activity on social media and had issued many photos and videos on social media against Indian […]

60 Million Users Data Stolen From Dropbox
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60 Million Users Data Stolen From Dropbox

A recent hack on Dropbox, the online cloud storage platform, shows that hackers got away with over 60 million account details from the site. Apparently, the hack was done a while back in a previous breach, therefore knowing how many of the Dropbox users are affected will take some time. Dropbox said they had already […]

FBI on alert as two state election boards are hacked Russians suspected
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FBI on alert as two state election boards are hacked: Russians suspected

There has been a number of high profile hacks in the past few months which have raised some eyebrows and clearly cost some notable people their jobs. One of the biggest scalps was that of the Democratic Party, Debbie Schulzman. In any other year, the number of hacks would not be as alarming but their […]

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