Quayside Publishing notifies online customers of breach: Customers who ordered from one of Quayside Publishing‘s web sites since the end of April recently received a notice of a  breach that was reported to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office: We are writing to notify you of an incident that involved unauthorized access to our web server in […]

NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal not always wiping data before selling devices as surplus: While the NYS Department of State got a clean bill of health on their disposal of devices, the NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal did not fare as well in an audit of its inventory and disposal procedures. Key Findings: […]

NSA performed over 61K hacking operations around the world, says whistleblower: According to an interview Snowden gave to the South China Morning Post, the U.S. government has preformed over 61,000 “hacking operations” in countries across the globe. He also believes hundreds of those missions targeted the Chinese mainland as well as Hong Kong, where Snowden is […]

Hacking WordPress with XSS to Bypass WAF and Shell an Internal Box: WordPress is by far the most popular Content Management System (CMS) in the world today.  According to W3 Techs, “WordPress is used by 58.2% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 18.6% of all websites.”  As with most modern, […]

Tech companies are cooperating with US intelligence agencies more than you think: Tech firms including Microsoft are said to voluntarily give advanced warning to the US government of vulnerabilities in software products sold to governments overseas before they are patched, allowing US agencies to effectively use them to conduct foreign surveillance. Microsoft’s corporate vice president of […]

Privacy Advocates To File Supreme Court Petition Challenging NSA Surveillance Program: Amie Stepanovich, Director of the Domestic Surveillance Project at Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), announced that her organization is submitting a petition asking the Supreme Court to vacate Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) ruling that authorized the National Security Agency’s (NSA) to siphon up metadata […]

UK teams with defence and telecom companies on cyber security: Nine of the world’s biggest weapon makers and telecoms providers are teaming up with Britain to bolster the country’s cyber security, aiming to tackle the increasing threat of hacking and other such attacks. Britain made cyber security one of its top national defence priorities in 2010, […]

Green light for Dotcom to sue New Zealand spy agency: A Kiwi court has ruled that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can sue New Zealand’s spy agency for illegal surveillance, opening the government up to more scrutiny over its role in an unlawful 2011 police raid on the internet entrepreneur’s home. The New Zealand Appeals Court rejected […]

NZ spy agency suffers outage, backup also fails: New Zealand’s signals intelligence and networks protection agency suffered potential embarrassment yesterday after its website went down for two hours, and its backup arrangements failed as well. The Government Communications Security Bureau or GCSB is responsible for eavesdropping on communications in the Pacific and New Zealand as part […]

New Critical Vulnerability in Cryptocat: A few weeks ago, a volunteer named Steve Thomas pointed out a vulnerability in the way key pairs were generated for Cryptocat’s group chat. The vulnerability was quickly resolved and an update was pushed. We sincerely thank Steve for his invaluable effort. The vulnerability was so that any conversations had over […]