GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans GNU community members and collaborators have discovered threatening details about a five-country government surveillance program codenamed HACIENDA. The good news? Those same hackers have already worked out a free software countermeasure to thwart the program. According to Heise newspaper, the […]…

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Reddit users discover iOS malware threat.

Mobile phone hacking is being credited with the discovery of a malware infection targeting iOS users. The jailbreak community discovered the infection Known as ‘Unfold Baby Panda’, the infection targets jail broken iOS handsets and is believed to be spreading through Chinese iOS software sites. The researchers believe that the stolen credentials…

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Microsoft researchers discover malicious cookie scheme

Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analysing commonly collected web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking. If put into play, the scheme could clandestinely forward stolen session cookies to individual zombie machines in botnets that could use…

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