Sunday, February 22nd, 2015
tl;dr There is a software called Privdog. It totally breaks HTTPS security in a similar way as Superfish.
In case you haven't heard it the past days an Adware called Superfish made headlines. It was preinstalled on Lenovo laptops and it is bad: It totally breaks the security of HTTPS connections. The ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The hack ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Lenovo is in hot water after it was revealed on Wednesday that the company is shipping consumer laptops with Superfish (Adware) pre-installed. Security experts are alarmed, as the software performs Man-in-the-Middle attacks that compromises all SSL connections.
It's a fact of life; PC manufacturers are paid to install software at the ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
The National Security Agency is able to infect hard drives with surveillance software to spy on computers, Reuters said on Tuesday, citing information from cyber researchers and former NSA operatives.
In a new report, Kaspersky revealed the existence of a group dubbed The Equation Group capable of directly accessing the firmware ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2015
Hackers infiltrated over 100 banks in several countries, stealing millions of dollars in possibly the largest bank theft the world has seen, according to a report published by the New York Times on Saturday.
The Times said it received an advance copy of an upcoming report by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab that ...
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