Category: Computer Security

Rubio Outraged by Spying on Israel’s Government, OK with Mass Surveillance of Americans

Florida senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio denounced spying on Israel, but has expressed support for NSA mass surveillance. Source: Rubio Outraged by Spying >>>

Posted: December 31, 2015 in Computer, Security

Microsoft failed to tell thousands of Hotmail users that they had been hacked by the Chinese

Could be huge, but it’s too late for Hotmail users who had not been talk their electronic activity was scooped up. Source: Microsoft failed to >>>

Posted: December 31, 2015 in Computer, Security

Rep. Justin Amash plans bill to repeal CISA-like legislation included in omnibus

Source: Rep. Justin Amash plans bill to repeal CISA-like legislation included in omnibus

Posted: December 30, 2015 in Computer, Security

One Of Congress’s Biggest Defenders Of NSA Surveillance Suddenly Aghast That NSA May Have Spied On Him | Techdirt

Source: One Of Congress’s Biggest Defenders Of NSA Surveillance Suddenly Aghast That NSA May Have Spied On Him | Techdirt

Posted: December 30, 2015 in Computer, Security

Windows 10 covertly sends your disk-encryption keys to Microsoft / Boing Boing

There’s no way to turn off the “recovery” feature that sends your disk encryption keys to Microsoft by default, without notice — though you can >>>

Posted: December 30, 2015 in Computer, Security

191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database

A huge database of 191 million US citizens is uncovered. But no one knows who carelessly left it open, whilst the FBI have been contacted. >>>

Posted: December 28, 2015 in Computer, Security

Theresa May wants to see your internet history, so we thought it was only fair to ask for hers | UK Politics | News | The Independent

The Home Office has refused to make Theresa May’s internet browsing history public under freedom of information rules, arguing that a request to do so >>>

Posted: December 27, 2015 in Computer, Editorial, Internet, Security, Social

The Sanders campaign is taking its fight with the DNC to the next level

archived 26 Dec 2015 04:30:03 UTC Source: The Sanders campaign is taking its fight with the DNC to the next level

Posted: December 25, 2015 in Computer, Security

The Juniper VPN backdoor: buggy code with a dose of shady NSA crypto | CSO Online

Juniper was using a known flawed random number generator as the foundation for cryptographic operations in NetScreen’s ScreenOS and the safeguards it put in place >>>

Posted: December 23, 2015 in Computer, Security

Juniper Backdoor Picture Getting Clearer | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Experts digging into the Juniper backdoor have determined attackers have subverted a NSA backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm used in NetScreen firewalls. Source: Juniper Backdoor >>>

Posted: December 22, 2015 in Computer, Editorial, Internet, Security, Social, Software