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Lenovo shipped lappies with man-in-the-middle ad/mal/bloatware

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Lenovo is in hot water after being caught intentionally shipping laptops with software that steals web traffic using man-in-the-middle attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 19, 2015

Your HDDs were RIDDLED with NSA SPYWARE for YEARS

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has infected hard disk firmware with spyware in a campaign valued as highly as Stuxnet that dates back at least 14 years and possibly up to two decades, according to an analysis by Kaspersky Labs.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 17, 2015

California Introduces Bill To Ban Warrantless Spying

Backed by a number of tech companies, California is eyeing state legislation to protect Relevant Products/Services its citizens from warrantless government surveillance of e-mails, text messages and cellphone communications. The proposed legislation is being backed by state senators Mark Leno, a Democrat, and Joel Anderson, a Republican.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 10, 2015

Browse Anonymously with a DIY Raspberry Pi VPN/TOR Router

Surf the Internet securely with your very own portable WiFi VPN/TOR router. You can configure a Raspberry Pi with Linux and some extra software to connect to a VPN server of your choice. The VPN connection encrypts your internet traffic so that hackers and spies can

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 30, 2015

Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state

The chairman of the youth wing of the Swedish Pirate Party successfully fooled attendees at a major Swedish security and defense conference into connecting to an open Wi-Fi network that he controlled

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 15, 2015

New Snowden Documents Reveal That The NSA Can

A new wave of U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) document leaks show the agency wasn

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 31, 2014

Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters [TED video]

In some ways it may be fair to say that 2014 was the year when issues of survaillance and privacy became a huge part of our public discourse. And so I thought that re-posting this fantastic TED video by Glenn Greenwald on Why Privacy Matters is rather appropriate.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 29, 2014

Exploits for dangerous network time protocol vulnerabilities

Remote code execution vulnerabilities in the standard implementation of the network time protocol (NTP) can be exploited by attackers to compromise servers, embedded devices and even critical infrastructure systems that run UNIX-like operating systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 22, 2014

Tor exit nodes face unusual activity, is Tor being raided or under hack attack?

Thomas White (@CthulhuSec) warned users to steer clear of his Tor servers after he lost control following what he

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 22, 2014

FISC Approves 90-Day Extension of Section 215 Surveillance Authority

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the Section 215 bulk telephone collection program used by the National Security Agency, giving the agency through the end of February to run the program in the absence of legislation establishing a new authority.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 09, 2014

Five great browser add-ins to protect your privacy

Want to help make sure your privacy is protected when browsing the Web, sending messages on social network services, and more? Then try out these five great browser add-ins.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 03, 2014

Web Site Security Certificates Soon To Be Free and Easy

Browsing the Web could be made a lot more secure Relevant Products/Services if sites used the HTTPS encryption protocol instead of HTTP, but installing the security Relevant Products/Services certificates that enable this has generally been difficult, time-consuming and sometimes costly as well.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 19, 2014

EFF Calls Out ISPs Modifying STARTTLS Encryption Commands

As Net Neutrality debates swirl, privacy advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and VPN provider Golden Frog have gone public with a Federal Communications Commission filing that got more attention for accusations that Verizon FIOS customers were having their Netflix streaming service throttled back.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 13, 2014

Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own

Facebook has never had much of a reputation for letting users hide their identities online. But now the world

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 05, 2014

Facebook Creates .Onion Site; Now Accessible Via Tor Network

Facebook announced today that the social network will now be directly available to users as a Tor hidden service. The Tor Project is an Internet-traffic anonymization service that relays user traffic through a number of proxy servers all around the world in order to cloak their true IP address and identity.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 03, 2014

Verizon

Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years, inserting a string of about 50 letters, numbers, and characters into data flowing between these customers and the websites they visit.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2014

Pro-Privacy Senator Wyden on Fighting the NSA From Inside the System

Senator Ron Wyden thought he knew what was going on. The Democrat from Oregon, who has served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence since 2001, thought he knew the nature of the National Security Agency

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2014

Europe's watchdogs give Google a shopping list of how to sort out privacy

After a series of clashes with Google, Europe's data privacy watchdogs have drawn up a list of measures they'd like to see the search giant implement.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2014

Snowden: New Zealand Is Spying, Too

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden warned New Zealanders in a media blitz on Monday that all of their private emails, phone calls and text messages are being spied on despite government denials.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 22, 2014

TOR users become FBI's No.1 hacking target after legal power grab

The FBI wants greater authority to hack overseas computers, according to a law professor. A Department of Justice proposal to amend Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to hack into the computers of people attempting to protect their anonymity on the internet.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 19, 2014

Linux Privacy - Page 17

Enhancing Online Privacy and Anonymity with Whonix as Your Digital Shield

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