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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
Researchers have discovered that a strain of malware that may have been part of the attack in October on PHP.net is employing a DGA tactic that enables the malware to change the seed it uses to generate the random domains.
Dennis Fisher talks with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto and Citizen Lab about his group’s research into cyber espionage campaigns, the surveillance landscape and his recent book, Black Code.
The ICS-CERT is warning users about a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in a control interface for a wind-farm control portal manufactured by Nordex. The bug is remotely exploitable and could enable an attacker to run code on a vulnerable machine. The Nordex NC2 is a control portal for a series of wind turbines manufactured by […]
A United States District Court judge has ruled that the bulk metadata collection program maintained by the National Security Agency for years now likely is unconstitutional. The judge, ruling on a pair of law suits that claimed the NSA’s methods violated users’ privacy and civil rights, said that the metadata program “significantly intrudes on that […]
It’s taken more than six months, but top officials at the National Security Agency are finally discussing some of the details of how former agency contractor Edward Snowden got access to all of the documents he stole and what kind of damage they believe the publication of the information they contain could do.
Since its inception in 2009, the U.S. Cyber Command has been run by the director of the National Security Agency. The two organizations are intertwined and even share the same space in Maryland. The continuous leaks of NSA documents this year has led some politicians and critics to argue that the two should be separated, […]
The NSA surveillance scandal has created ripples all across the Internet, and the latest one is a new effort from the IETF to change the way that encryption is used in a variety of critical application protocols, including HTTP and SMTP.
One good way to measure the popularity of an emerging technology or trend is to see how much attention attackers and malware authors are paying it. Using that as a yardstick, Bitcoin is moving its way up the charts in a hurry.
A case that seemingly has little connection to the surveillance debate has attracted the attention of privacy and civil rights advocates and could become a key factor in the way that law enforcement agencies have to handle cell phone location data.
The general population may have had its fill of Facebook at this point, but attackers sure haven’t. There is a new round of Facebook-related spam that is using fake messages about recent crimes involving recipients’ friends as a lure to direct them to Tumblr pages serving exploits. The campaign comprises several different individual messages purporting […]
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