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Rogers claims al Qaeda tipped off by Snowden

posted onNovember 5, 2013
by l33tdawg

Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, claims that al Qaeda has changed the way it communicates in the light of Edward Snowden's leaks.

Talking to CBS's Face the Nation, Rogers said if Snowden disclosed classified information that has allowed three different terrorist organisations, affiliates of al Qaeda to change the way it communicates.

NSA, UK hacked Yahoo! and Google data center interconnects - report

posted onOctober 31, 2013
by l33tdawg

British and US intelligence agencies managed to tap into the connections between data centers run by Yahoo! and Google, and in one month this year slurped 181,280,466 records, including metadata and the contents of communications, according to new documents from Edward Snowden.

A report dated January 9, 2013, from NSA’s acquisitions directorate, detailed the operation, dubbed MUSCULAR, in which operatives from the NSA and Britain's GCHQ tapped the fiber-optic transmission cables from the non-US data centers run by the two firms.

Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on UN headquarters

posted onOctober 29, 2013
by l33tdawg

US President Barack Obama recently ordered the National Security Agency to curtail eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters in New York as part of a review of US electronic surveillance, according to a US government official.

Obama's order is the latest known move by the White House to limit the NSA's vast intelligence collection, in the wake of protests by allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, over US spying on foreign heads of state.

Hackers: Here's video of how Apple's iMessage surveillance flaw works

posted onOctober 18, 2013
by l33tdawg

Hackers this week showed security conference attendees findings and demonstrations directly contradicting Apple's public claim that it can't read iMessages.

Even though the messages are encrypted end-to-end as Apple claims, according to QuarksLab researchers showed a packed room at Hack In The Box Kuala Lumpur, due to the lack of certificate pinning, "Apple can technically read your iMessages whenever they want."

Experts: Yes, Apple and the NSA Can Read Your iMessages

posted onOctober 18, 2013
by l33tdawg

Security experts have long suspected that iMessage is not as safe and impenetrable as Apple claims. But a group of researchers says it has proof that Apple can indeed eavesdrop on your iMessages — and the NSA can, too.

The researchers, through a careful and thorough study of the iMessage protocol, conclude that Apple has the ability to intercept and decrypt iMessages. Even though the messages are encrypted end-to-end, Apple manages the keys needed to encrypt and exchange the messages, the researchers found.

Apple iMessage Research Sparks Corporate Security Debate

posted onOctober 18, 2013
by l33tdawg

Researchers at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur Thursday showed that Apple on its own or per orders by the U.S. government could harvest messages sent over its proprietary service, which lets people using Apple mobile devices send text messages for free.

Apple has said that its end-to-end encryption prevents the company or anyone else from descrambling the messages. That claim is "just basically lies," Cyril Cattiaux, a developer of iOS jailbreak software and a researcher at Quarkslab, said, as reported by IDG News Service.

Facebook CSO says Snowden disclosures brought security to forefront

posted onOctober 18, 2013
by l33tdawg

Facebook was already implementing stronger security controls when the U.S. National Security Agency's expansive surveillance program was revealed in June, its chief security officer said Thursday.

The social networking site has continued upgrading its security infrastructure, said Joe Sullivan[cq], who spoke to IDG News Service by phone from the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur.