FISA GRANTS NSA Intelligence chief declassifies FISA court approval for collection of phone data The top U.S. spy opened the door a sliver Friday on the mass collection of telephone records, acknowledging that national intelligence agencies had sought and been granted permission to vacuum up Americans' calling data for three more months. In...

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NSA Server vulnerable to SMTP Spoofing, can be used for Social Engineering  An Indian hacker known as "Godzilla" has identified a vulnerability in the NSA website that allows an attacker to send fake emails from NSA's SMTP server. NSA's SMTP server allows anyone to use the service without verifying the IP address and password.  The...

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Security researchers at Symantec have spotted a series of Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection DDoS attacks during the Christmas Holidays. DDoS attacks are very simple methods of offence that could cause serious problems to targeted systems, behind the word DDoS there are numeros techniques that could be exploited by attackers to reach their...

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NSA reportedly building quantum computer that could crack most encryption types The National Security Agency is reportedly racing to build a computer that will be able to break almost every kind of encryption used to protect medical, banking, business and government records around the world. According to documents provided by NSA whistle...

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Backdoor in wireless DSL routers lets attacker reset router, get admin A hacker has found a backdoor to wireless combination router/DSL modems that could allow an attacker to reset the router’s configuration and gain access to the administrative control panel. The attack, confirmed to work on several Linksys and Netgear DSL modems, exploits...

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JPMorgan Chase admits network hack; 465,000 card users' data stolen The banking giant suffered a network breach this year that resulted in a large data breach — though, funds or critical personal information are not thought to have been stolen. JPMorgan Chase has warned some 465,000 prepaid cash card customers that their personal information...

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NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable. The records feed a vast...

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