UPDATED: 02 Jun 2015 2216 EDT The Senate, in a 67-32 vote, passed the same bill they were unable to pass before they went on vacation, restoring some of the expired provisions of the Patriot Act. The bill now goes to President Obama who said he would sign it. Gone is the bulk collection of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported on the process that the U.S. Federal Government, and more specifically, the Intelligence Community, uses to decide when to keep bugs secret and use them against systems they want to attack and when to reveal them to the vendors to fix. The bugs, known as zero days or O Days, are ones that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that the Chinese government has removed a number of Western technology vendors products from the approved list. Whether this is due to Western surveillance or just due to their desire to support local companies is not clear – they are not saying. What they are saying is that Chinese companies “offer more […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote a couple of days ago that The Intercept reported that the SIM and banking card maker Gemalto was hacked by GCHQ and NSA. Well, now, after just a couple of days, Gemalto says not to worry, everything is cool. We looked at our logs and while GCHQ might have gotten into our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have known for a long time that the encryption on cell phone calls and text messages was relatively weak, but apparently, cracking that was more work than GCHQ, the British version of the NSA, wanted to do. People have been beating up the NSA for being, well, the NSA. I have said, whether we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It’s not been a great year for the NSA. First Snowden and all press they have gotten as a result of the leaked documents that seem to come out every month. Now a Russian security researcher, Gene Kaspersky, that I wrote about recently (see post) revealed that they have detected malware in the firmware of […]
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