Another large-scale, stealthy cyberattack is underway on a scale that could dwarf last week’s assault on computers worldwide, a global cybersecurity firm told AFP on Wednesday. The new attack targets the same vulnerabilities the WannaCry ransomware worm exploited but, rather than freeze files, uses the hundreds of thousands of computers believed to have been infected […]
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Clapper’s Intel ‘Reforms’ Helped Rice ‘Unmask’ Americans…
Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper’s creation of a cloud-computing platform in 2013 made it far easier for officials like former White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice to ‘unmask’ individual Americans without creating a digital paper trail leading back to her, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. Clapper’s system […]
Shadow Brokers, Who Leaked WannaCry SMB Exploit, Are Back with More 0-Days…
The infamous hacking collective Shadow Brokers – the one who leaked the Windows SMB exploit in public that led to last weekend’s WannaCrypt menace – are back, this time, to cause more damage. In typically broken English, the Shadow Brokers published a fresh statement (with full of frustration) a few hours ago, promising to release […]
The Real Roots of the Worldwide Ransomware Outbreak: Militarism and Greed…
A runaway strain of malware hit Windows computers Friday and spread through the weekend, rendering hundreds of thousands of computers around the world more or less useless. The big twist: The virus was made possible by U.S. government hackers at the National Security Agency. But the finger-pointing won’t stop there, and it probably shouldn’t. As […]
Napolitano: Justice Scalia Believed Supreme Court Was Being Surveilled by Obama (VIDEO)…
Judge Napolitano: Justice Scalia told me that he often thought the court was being surveilled. And he told me that probably four or five years ago…If they had to unmask Senator Paul’s name to reveal a conversation he was having with a foreign agent and the foreign agent was hostile to the United States they […]
WikiLeaks Publishes Documents Showing How Google Helped al-Qaeda in Syria…
Google has helped Al-Qaeda and other Salafist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood gain new members at the dawn of the Syrian conflict, secret documents and e-mails published by Wikileaks show. The then director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen coordinated actions to support the groups often dubbed as rebels with then U.S. Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton […]
Culprit Behind 2014 CIA Hack Turned Out to Be…the CIA…
Declassified CIA emails released to Michael Morisy show that the Agency believed that their online FOIA Reading Room had been taken down by a vicious cyberattack. Later emails admitted, however, that the attacks against the Agency’s website had been unsuccessful – and that the damage had been entirely self-inflicted. According to the classified email from […]
Assange: CIA Is World’s Most Dangerously Incompetent Spy Agency…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has described the CIA as “dangerously incompetent,” in response to the US agency branding him a “friend of terrorists.” The war of words started after RT asked the CIA to comment on reports of its hacking exploits. “Dictators and terrorists have no better friend in the world than Julian Assange, as […]
One Day, Three Serious News Stories That Turn Out To Be False…
It is a fakenews day. Three stories are making the rounds through the media that are each based on false or widely exaggerated interpretation of claims. North Korea, Syria and the U.S. President are the targets. 1. The Wall Street Journal asserts with a #fakenews headline that bits of computer-code in the recent WannaCry ransom […]
#Vault7: CIA Malware Plants Gremlins’ on Microsoft Machines — WikiLeaks…
WikiLeaks has released the latest instalment in the #Vault7 series, detailing two apparent CIA malware frameworks dubbed ‘AfterMidnight’ and ‘Assassin’ which it says target the Microsoft Windows platform. The latest release consists of five documents detailing the two frameworks. ‘AfterMidnight’ allows operators to load and execute malware on a target machine, according to a statement […]
It’s Not Over! WannaCry 2.0 Ransomware Arrives…
If you are following the news, by now you might be aware that a security researcher has activated a “Kill Switch” which apparently stopped the WannaCry ransomware from spreading further. But it’s not true, neither the threat is over yet. However, the kill switch has just slowed down the infection rate. Multiple security researchers have […]
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The New Free Speech Coalition Threatens the Tech-Left’s Net Neutrality with a REAL Free and Open Internet…
The tech-left’s creative use of online movement building, coalition organizing, and millions in liberal foundation and Silicon Valley financing largely dominated the online political dialogue during the Obama years. But while radical netroots progressives have long paid lip service to an “open Internet” as an essential tool to ensure a free press and political transparency, […]
New Hi-Tech Gadget Promises Power from Polluted Air…
From the “Chinese are already working on a copy” department. Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in developing a process that purifies air and, at the same time, generates power. The device need only be exposed to light in order to function…
Creepy: Secret Messages Hidden in TV Adverts Can Order Smartphones to Spy on People, Researchers Warn…
SECRET messages hidden in television adverts can order smartphones to quietly spy on their owners. That’s the shocking revelation in a new piece of research which exposes the scary snooping techniques corporations are using to pry into people’s lives in unprecedented detail. A team of German academics have noticed a huge growth in the number […]
Clapper: U.S. Intel Community ‘Unmasked’ 1,934 U.S. Persons in 2016…
Barack Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, testified Monday before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism that the intelligence community “unmasked” 1,934 U.S. persons in 2016. Clapper said the term “unmasking” is often misunderstood and that it is important to know the context. “There are cases when, to fully understand the […]
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‘Power Grab’: FCC Website Hit with 128k Anti-Net Neutrality Messages in Bot Cyberattack…
After the FCC announced plans to rollback net neutrality regulations, their public comment system was flooded with hundreds of thousands of comments crashing the system. Many of the comments appear to be fake and from a bot. Two weeks ago, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai announced plans to reverse net neutrality rules put […]
FBI Paid Nearly $1M to Hack into San Bernardino Killer’s iPhone…
“I was so struck when San Bernardino happened and you made overtures to allow that device to be opened, and then the FBI had to spend $900,000 to hack it open,” said Senator Feinstein, (D-California) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, according to AP. “And as I subsequently learned of some of the […]
Turning Gen. Flynn into Road Kill by Robert Parry…
Not to defend retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn for his suspect judgment, but it should be noted that his case represents a disturbing example of how electronic surveillance and politicized law enforcement can destroy an American citizen’s life in today’s New McCarthyism. The testimony on Monday by former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former […]
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Open Internet Advocates Vow to Fight Trump FCC’s Plan to Kill Net Neutrality…
Ten years of fighting for internet freedom, potentially out the window because Donald Trump was elected president and chose as his top telecom regulator a former Verizon lawyer who’s hell-bent on killing federal rules safeguarding net neutrality, the internet’s open access principle. That’s the prospect facing open internet advocates following Wednesday’s announcement that Trump’s…
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