German Federal Intelligence Service violates laws, dodges supervision
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been illegally collecting data through mass surveillance tools, storing it in databases that should not exist, and has …
NSA
USBee makes USB devices transmit data from air-gapped computers
After devising ways of exfiltrating data from air-gapped computers via mobile phones, using radio frequencies, heat, rogue software that transmits electromagnetic signals at …
Cisco starts publishing fixes for EXTRABACON exploit
Starting last Wednesday, Cisco has begun publishing fixes for the SNMP RCE flaw in the software of its Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA), which can be triggered through the …
Leaked EXTRABACON exploit can work on newer Cisco ASA firewalls
EXTRABACON, one of the Equation Group exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers, can be made to work on a wider range of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls than …
Snowden documents definitely link Shadow Brokers’ leak to the NSA
Last week, Cisco and Fortinet confirmed that the exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers and aimed at compromising their networking devices work as intended, but the origin of …
Cisco, Fortinet validate exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers
Cisco and Fortinet have released security advisories confirming that some of the exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers work as intended. The entity released the batch as proof …
Leaked hacking tools can be tied to NSA’s Equation Group
The batch of data released by the Shadow Brokers, an entity that claims to have hacked the Equation Group, contains attack tools that can be tied to the group. Equation Group …
NSA spied on world leaders, UN, EU officials
A set of highly classified documents recently published by WikiLeaks show how the NSA spied on a number of high ranking officials of the UN, UNHCR, WTO, NATO, the EU and …
WikiLeaks publishes reports showing NSA spied on French presidents
WikiLeaks has published “Espionnage Élysée”, a set of intelligence reports and documents that show that the US NSA has, between 2006 and 2012, intercepted the …
US, UK spies reverse-engineered security software in search for flaws
The UK GCHQ has been actively trying to reverse-engineer popular security software in order find vulnerabilities that can be used to neutralize the protection the software …
