Until now, the FBI is asking for Apple’s help in unlocking the iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino shootings that killed 14 and injured 24 in December.
However, in addition to iPhone 5C belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, the U.S. Justice Department is looking at court orders forcing Apple to help officials unlock at least 12 iPhones.
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Utah State computer systems are experiencing a massive cyber attack on up to 300 Million Hacking attempts per day due to National Security Agency’s (NSA) data center in the state.
Yes, 300,000,000 hacking attempts in a day!
According to the statistical survey, it is evident that the computer systems in the US State of Utah began to experience the hacking attack a few years back,
“There are very few ‘known terrorists’ to use to train and test the model,” Patrick Ball, the executive director of Human Rights Data Analysis Group, told the site. “If they are using the same records to train the model as they are using to test the model, their assessment of the fit is completely bullshit.”
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In a joint surveillance program, the US intelligence agency NSA (National Security Agency) and the British intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) hacked into, decrypted, and tracked live video feeds of Israeli Military Drones and Fighter Jets.
This could be one of the most shocking and embarrassing
Juniper Networks has removed the backdoored Dual_EC DRBG algorithm from its ScreenOS operating system, but new developments show Juniper deployed Dual_EC long after it was known to be backdoored.
Juniper Networks has removed “unauthorized code” capable of decrypting VPN traffic that it found in ScreenOS, which runs many of its enterprise-grade NetScreen firewalls.
UK’s Secretive Spy Agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has open-sourced one of its tools on code-sharing website GitHub for free…
A graph database called ‘Gaffer.’
Gaffer, written in Java, is a kind of database that makes it “easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes and edges have statistics such as counts, histograms and sketches.”
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Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week: The latest Xen vulnerability, CISA passing the Senate, a researcher challenging that Weak DH paper, and more.
Edward Snowden has been described as a “international human rights defender” by the European Parliament, which has called on all EU member states to back the whistleblower.
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The NSA is moving away from Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and cryptographers aren’t buying their reasoning that advances in post quantum computing put ECC in jeopardy.