Tag: government
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VB2018 paper: From Hacking Team to hacked team to…?
It is good practice not to mock or laugh at hacking victims. But when the victim is a company that itself is in the business of hacking and has a habit of selling its products and services to governments with dubious human rights records, few could help but smile at the irony. This was the…
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VB2018 paper: From Hacking Team to hacked team to…?
It is good practice not to mock or laugh at hacking victims. But when the victim is a company that itself is in the business of hacking and has a habit of selling its products and services to governments with dubious human rights records, few could help but smile at the irony. This was the…
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There are lessons to be learned from government websites serving cryptocurrency miners
This was awkward. On Sunday, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator and thus the public body that issues fines for data breaches, was found to be serving a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner on its website. The issue was first reported by security researcher Scott Helme, who discovered that the ICO wasn’t the…
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There are lessons to be learned from government websites serving cryptocurrency miners
This was awkward. On Sunday, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator and thus the public body that issues fines for data breaches, was found to be serving a JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miner on its website. The issue was first reported by security researcher Scott Helme, who discovered that the ICO wasn’t the…
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VB2017 video: FinFisher: New techniques and infection vectors revealed
Over the last few years, the infamous FinFisher government spyware (already the subject of a VB2013 paper ) has done a good job of staying under the radar. Recently, however, it made the news because of its use of the then zero-day CVE-2017-8759 and the likely involvement of ISPs in targets getting infected. In a…
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VB2017 video: FinFisher: New techniques and infection vectors revealed
Over the last few years, the infamous FinFisher government spyware (already the subject of a VB2013 paper ) has done a good job of staying under the radar. Recently, however, it made the news because of its use of the then zero-day CVE-2017-8759 and the likely involvement of ISPs in targets getting infected. In a…
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Opposition activists in Asia and Africa targeted by spyware developed by Western companies
Mozilla angry about use of its brand and logo. A new report has been released on the commercialization of digital spying, which thoroughly analyses a number of pieces of spyware developed by Western companies and used to target opposition activists in various countries in Africa and Asia. CitizenLab , a research institute linked to the…
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Indian government proposes pamphlet-based cybersecurity education
Mandatory brochures not welcomed by manufacturers. In an attempt to raise public awareness of security issues, the Indian government has proposed a plan in which it will be mandatory for every piece of new hardware sold in the country to include a brochure on cybersecurity – in the hopes that consumers will gen up on…