RSA security has ‘categorically denied’ existence of any contract between the company and National Security Agency (NSA), US stating that the decision of using Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual…
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Report: NSA paid RSA $10m to use Dual EC DRBG as preferred random number generator
Newly released documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden A new report reveals that National Security Agency (NSA) allegedly paid $10 million to RSA back in 2006 to get the cryptography pioneer use Dual Elliptic…
Cryptolocker wreaking havoc in UK with nearly 250,000 infections
A security company has revealed that Cryptolocker may have managed to infect anywhere between 200,000 to 250,000 infections and could have collected over $980,000 in Bitcoins. Dell SecureWorks’s counter-threat unit (CTU) research…
Google Chrome OS blocks installation of downloaded extensions
Google has increased security of Chrome OS by changing the way how third party extensions are installed on the OS. Users were able to download third party extensions (.crx files) and trigger…
Hackers targeting paid-for-apps on Apple, Google platforms
Hackers are increasingly targeting paid-for-apps on Google and Apple mobile platforms with latest reports indicating that hackers have managed to hack 100 percent of the top 100 apps on Android while they…
Techie News to cover Nullcon 2014
Techie News will be covering Nullcon 2014 to be held at Goa between February 12 and 15. Celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, the primary idea behind Nullcon is to provide “an…
At least 150 hit by Cryptolocker in the UK
Cryptolocker has hit a reported 157 Britons according to a latest report by UK’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB). The NFIB said in a blog post that it has received 157 reports…
138 Cryptolocker C&C domains identified, taken down
Cryptolocker has been menacing gullible users, encrypting their files and demanding ransom in lieu of a private decryption key. Users and even law enforcement agencies have been succumbing to the demands and…
D-Link SOHO networking devices contain hardcoded telnet credentials in plaintext
Reports of networking vendors hardcoding credentials in their SOHO routers is increasingly becoming a commonplace with the latest one being D-Link, which has hardcoded telnet credentials in quite few of its routers…
Captcha bypass vulnerability in Pastebin discovered
A security researcher has discovered a captcha bypass vulnerability in Pastebin and has opted for full disclosure as the online pasting tool has failed to resolve the issue even after multiple reminders….
European Parliament culls public Wi-Fi access after email hack
A white hat hacker managed to break into multiple email accounts thereby forcing the European Parliament to cutoff its public Wi-Fi access. The French security researcher apparently performed man-in-the-middle attacks on multiple…
Microsoft to beef up encryption to counter NSA surveillance
Microsoft is looking to revamp its internet traffic encryption system as it believes that its global communications system links have been breached by the National Security Agency, reported the Washington Post. Per…
Adobe: It is ‘taking longer than expected’ to alert affected users
Adobe, which suffered from a severe security breach recently, has admitted that its timeline of alerting affected users is stretching and is ‘taking longer than expected’. Adobe came across evidence that its…
Cryptolocker ransomware scammers offering discounts as Bitcoin prices soar
Cryptolocker has been making the headlines lately after National Cyber Crime Unit of UK warned of a large spam attack involving the ransomware and more recently because Swansea Massachusetts police department in…
Evernote asking users to change passwords following Adobe hack
Evernote has compared the database leaked from Adobe hack with its own and is asking users who used the same email address on both the services to change their passwords. Evernote, through…