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Kudos to Mark Lemley, a friend who is also a law professor at Stanford, for that awesome blog post title. The US Department of Homeland Security was just forced by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to release a list of words it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of [...]
New Jersey town mayor was arrested on Thursday for allegedly hacking into a site that criticized his administration and intimidating individuals associated with it. You couldn't make this stuff up...
We were alerted to reports about the info stealing malware Flame, which has reportedly been seen in Iran and certain countries since 2010. Dubbed the most sophisticated malware, Flame is capable of performing several information stealing techniques, including capturing screen shots, and recording audio via the affected computer’s microphone. Because of its scope and specific [...]
A proxy tool used by Iranian internet users to evade censorship and oppression is being distributed with a Trojan horse that can log their keystrokes and surfing habits reporting back their activities to its author.
We released a new research paper describing the activities of another APT campaign, IXESHE (pronounced “i-sushi”). One of the most notable characteristics of the IXESHE campaign is the attackers’ use of compromised servers in target organizations as command-and-control (C&C) servers. This tactic allowed them to hide their presence by confusing their activities with data belonging [...]