BLACKBERRY ANNOUNCED SECUTABLET

In an event on Saturday Blackberry announced its new most highly secured SecuTablet, a tablet which it says is perfect for privacy lovers, businesses and government offices.

SecuTablet is based on Samsung Galaxy S 10.5 and has been developed by BlackBerry in coalition with two brands IBM and Samsung.The SecuTablet can also be considered result of BlackBerry’s purchase of security firm, Secusmart last year and is BlackBerry’s attempt to woo buyers who are more inclined towards privacy and security of phones.

New BB tablet Priced at $2,380.oo BlackBerry has made it clear that, SecuTablet is not intended for common users but for elite niche because it is built with the sole purpose of preventing data on the tablet being leaked by any hacking/cracking methods. SecuTablet also gives total encryption to voice and data services through a built-in Secusmart Security Card.

In a statement about the new device Chief Executive Office of Secusmart GmbH a Blackberry company Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle said, 

 “Security is ingrained in every part of BlackBerry’s portfolio, which includes voice and data encryption solutions. National and international government customers have entrusted their voice and data communications with the Secusmart Security Card for years. This same technology is what secures the new SecuTABLET. Working alongside IBM and Samsung, we have added the last link in the chain of the Federal Security Network. Subject to certification of the SecuTABLET, German government agencies will have a new way to access BlackBerry’s most secure and complete communications network in the world”.

Apart from all the security features, SecuTablet will also be able to run your Apps like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without worry of security breaches or compromises. SecuTablet runs Apps and data services separately and totally isolated from personal information stored on the device, most probably like Samsung’s Knox secure container method.
In fact, Samsung has collaborated with BlackBerry to provide secure working environment. SecuTablet runs on Android and BlackBerry hopes that SecuTablet will be the go to solution for businesses and privacy lovers.
Lets wait and watch how this product will do 

MADISON POLICE DEPARTMENT WEBSITE TAKEN DOWN BY ANONYMOUS

Hackers affiliated to Anonymous take down Madison PD website to protest against shooting of  biracial teenager Tony Robinson Jr. by white police Officer Matt Kenny 

The hacker collectively took down the website of police department in Madison, Wisconsin in protest against the shooting of unarmed Tony Robinson Jr

The Madison Police Department website along with its email servers and in-car laptop servers sufered DDoS attack by Anonymous and were intermittently going offline according to the police authorities. The attacks were planned and executed by American chapter of Anonymous and came in retaliation of Friday’s shooting incident whichresulted indeath of unarmed biracial teenager Tony Robinson Jr. by white police Officer Matt Kenny.

Anonymous posted a video on YouTube to sent his message demanding that the Madison Police Department and its chief, Michael Koval to, “release all audio and visual recordings from the scene immediately, and arrest the officers responsible for murdering Mr. Robinson.”

There were protests organised by several youth in Capitol rotunda. Observers aid that around 1500 youth who ranged from 13 years to college student aged recorded protest against Tony Johnson’s shooting.

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Protests have been going on since Friday. I'm so proud of my adopted town. #blacklivesmatter #RIPTonyRobinson

10:26 AM - 11 Mar 2015

WIKIMEDIA FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST NSA AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

The Wikimedia Foundation which operates the world famous online encyclopedia Wikipedia has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) of United States for violating user privacy.
Wikimedia filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the US Department for Justice (DOJ) for allegedly violating its constitutional rights.
The organization states that an NSA program.Which collect's information across the Internet, known as upstream surveillance, is a violation of its First Amendment  which is right of free speech and a violation of the Fourth Amendment which is ban on unreasonable search and seizure.

The American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other human rights organizations, are co-plaintiffs on the lawsuit."The organization has been working on the lawsuit for approximately one year" said Wikimedia general Wikimedia general counsel Geoff Brigham.
When one NSA contractor Edward Snowden started leaking official US government documents in 2013.According to the Snowden leaks Wikipedia was mentioned as a target of government surveillance,he further added that the US government is using a dragnet to collect nearly all Internet communication and store it. This whole process is governed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that Congress amended in 2008, which now provides more support and freedom to US spy agencies to collect Internet information at will.

"In the course of its surveillance, the NSA copies and combs through vast amounts of Internet traffic, which it intercepts inside the United States with the help of major telecommunications companies," the ACLU said in a statement on Tuesday. He further said"It searches that traffic for keywords called 'selectors' that are associated with its targets. The surveillance involves the NSA's warrantless review of the emails and Internet activities of millions of ordinary Americans."

Ultimately, Wikimedia wants  US government stop its upstream surveillance and has asked the judiciary to rule it as unconstitutional activity. The lawsuit also requests that a permanent ban on upstream surveillance should be imposed and order US  government to destroy all communications it has collected as part of the upstream surveillance program.

"Our role at the Wikimedia Foundation is to protect Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Wikimedia community of users," the organization wrote on Tuesday. "This means providing our users with the right conditions to facilitate their work, and protecting them when necessary. Defending the privacy of our editors, readers, and community is paramount to us. We believe privacy is essential to facilitating and advancing free knowledge."said wikimedia
 The time will tell that wether the US court will give decision in favor of wikimedia and will ask NSA to stop this program or the court will allow NSA to continue their survillience job.

ISIS HAS 46000 TWITTER ACCOUNTS

The Brookings Institute has recently find that even while the social networking sites deleted thousands of accounts associated with the terrorist group in 2014, but still new one kept  popping.

Terrorist groups and their supporters have reportedly long used social media to communicate. AL-QAEDA and the TALIBAN have been believed to frequently use Facebook, and HAMAS had been reported to use Twitter.
Now,ISIS, is believed to be quite active on social networks. In fact, ISIS supporters are believed to be operating least 46,000 Twitter accounts between the month of September and December 2014, according to study released this week.Which is done by the Brookings Institute think tank.
ISIS "has exploited social media, most notoriously Twitter, to send its propaganda and messaging out to the world and to draw in people vulnerable to radicalization," J.M. Berger and Jonathan Morgan, the study's authors, wrote in the report. The firther added that the group is "using social media to attract new recruits and inspire lone actor attacks."
The whole point of using social media is to let people connect with them to exchange ideas and information.Sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube perfect platforms for terrorist organizations who are looking to spread their rech or ideas.
ISIS is known as one of the world's most popular terrorist groups. The group has made headlines in past few months for recording videos of its members beheading hostages, majority  of them were Western journalists and aid workers, and they uploaded that videos on youtube.
Brookings wanted to know the method how ISIS used Twitter and how far it was able to plot the traps on social network. Besides pinpointing 46,000 Twitter accounts associated with ISIS supporters, the think tank was also able to locate where many of those accounts were being operated, including Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, United States and Egypt. While the majority of the accounts used Arabic as their primary language, one in five of the accounts uses English as their primary language.These accounts which are identified by Brookings had an average of 1,000 followers each, which is more than the typical Twitter user has. The accounts also fired off more than 50 messages daily, making their acccounts  more active than the usual Twitter account. The most popular accounts tended to be the most active.
Much of ISIS's social media success can be attributed to a small group of hyperactive users, consisting of 500 to 2,000 accounts, which tweet in concentrated bursts of high volume," Berger and Morgan wrote.Most social networks based in the US do not allow designated terrorist organizations to maintain accounts on their sites. Twitter said it has suspended "thousands of accounts" since October 2014, according to Brookings report.the fact of matter is social network deletes accounts believed to be tied to ISIS, alternative accounts have reportedly popped up. Twitter didn't immediately respond to request for comment.
Reports are circulating around the Internet earlier this week regarding ISIS supporters that they were issuing death threats against Twitter employees and the company's founder Jack Dorsey, according to Buzzfeed. These supporters were reportedly unhappy on thousands of deleted accounts.
"Your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you," post by alleged ISIS supporters. "We told you from the beginning it's not your war, but you didn't get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back."

BRITAIN'S NCA ARRESTED 56 HACKERS IN "STRIKE WEEK"

The UK authorities states that they had arrested 56 HACKERS across England, Wales and Scotland with accusations of carrying out anti-cybercrime operations. National Crime Agency(NCA) arrested 56 hackers as a part of their “strike week” to put a full stop to cyber crime.
These arrests were made in a result of 25 operations and arrested cyber criminals are alleged to be involved in fraud, data theft,virus writing and many other cyber crimes.
According to title name this operation was spread over a span of seven days and was coordinated by the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) of NCA. Special officers from the Metropolitan Police and regional organized crime teams also played a key role in success of this operation.
According to BBC reports that a suspected hacker was arrested from Leeds and he is suspected to be a member of the now famous Lizard Squad Gang which defamed Xbox and Playstation networks on Christmas. Another hacker is believed to be a part of D33Ds group which was involved in the 2012 attack on Yahoo and theft of 400,000 email and passwords.

In a statement release, NCA lists the following reasons for arrests.

– Network intrusion and data theft from multinational companies and government agencies,

– Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

– Cyber-enabled fraud

– Malicious software and virus development


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MICROSOFT MACHINES VULNERABLE TO "FREAK"

Computers which are running any microsoft windows have been found vulnerable to "FREAK," a almost decade-old encryption flaw that make users vulnerable to having their data communications .Those communications can be intercepted when visiting any of hundreds of thousands of websites, including Whitehouse.gov, NSA.gov and FBI.gov it can be even secure site like google.

Previously it was said that flaw was limited to Apple's safari and Google's ANDROID browsers. Later on Microsoft warned that the encryption protocols used in Windows -- Secure Sockets Layer and its successor Transport Layer Security -- were also vulnerable to the flaw which created a buzz among microsoft users.

"Our investigation has verified that the vulnerability could allow an attacker to force the downgrading of the cipher suites used in an SSL/TLS connection on a Windows client system," Microsoft said.They further added "The vulnerability facilitates exploitation of the publicly disclosed FREAK technique, which is an industry wide issue that is not specific to Windows operating systems."

According to microsoft it will address the flaw by releasing a patch for it on Tuesday update or with an out-of-cycle patch. In the meantime, Microsoft has suggested users to disable the RSA export ciphers.

The FREAK (Factoring RSA Export Keys) flaw buzzed on internet few weeks ago when a group of researchers discovered they could force websites to use intentionally weakened encryption, which they were able to break within a few hours. Once a site's encryption was cracked,if once cracked than it allow hackers to steal data such as passwords, and hijack elements on the page.

Researchers said that they had not found any evidence regarding hackers had exploited the vulnerability, which they blamed on a former US policy that banned US companies from exporting the strongest encryption standards which were available. The restrictions were lifted in the late 1990s, but the weaker standards became the part of software used widely around the world, including Windows and the web browsers.
"The export-grade RSA ciphers are the remains of a 1980s-vintage effort to weaken cryptography so that intelligence agencies would be able to monitor," Matthew Green, a Johns Hopkins cryptographer who helped investigate the encryption flaw, wrote in a blog post explaining the flaw's origins and effects. "This was done badly. So badly, that while the policies were ultimately scrapped, they're still hurting us today."
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HACKED!!! BUT TOO LATE

It is a cool case of vigilante justice going wrong.  A hacker named "bitoin baron" took down the website of police and city district gov to took revenge for women which was assaulted by police officer.Coincidently he didn't knew that police officer was already removed and was sentenced to jail after for that same offence.
I had targeted the sites to demand a police officer named James Palermo be fired from San Marcos Police Department and should be imprisoned for injuring Alexis Adelphi, the hacker bitcoin baron said.
Palermo who was a police officer had bashed up and injured college student Alexis.  This incident took place in 2013 when Palermo wrongly tried to arrest her. Due to Palermo’s mishandling the poor teenager, lost two teeth and suffered a concussion during altercation.
The hacker further said in his video meassage that your police is disgusting.“I bet you’ve known [Palermo’s] past and [are]still employing him…in no way will I stop ’til Palermo is in prison”hacker said.

Everything Bitcoin Baron did was correct accept for one minor error with time that it was too late. Bitcoin Baron’s target, James Palermo had already been punsihed for assaulting Alexis. As of consequence of the indictment, Palermo was removed from the San Marcos police department and was sentenced to jail.

A perfect example of vigilante justice coming a bit late for San Marcos PD.

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AVG AND PANDA ANTIVIRUS FLAGGED NEWLY RELEASED TOR BROWSER AS MALWARE

The Tor project released a new browser version 4.0.4 for Tor anonymiser network on Wednesday, 25th Feb with support for Firefox 31.5.0 and lots of bug fixes..The browser can be downloaded for from here and with TorProjectDistribution Directory.

According to tor project the above version is stable release which is signed by one of the subkeys of the Tor Browser Developers signing key from now on, too. You can find its fingerprint on the Signing Keys page. It is:

pub 4096R/0x4E2C6E8793298290 2014-12-15
Key fingerprint = EF6E 286D DA85 EA2A 4BA7
DE68 4E2C 6E87 9329 8290

Tor Browser 4.0.4 is based on Firefox ESR 31.5.0, which features some important security updates for Mozilla Firefox. Secondally, it contains updates to NoScript, HTTPS-Everywhere, and OpenSSL.
Here is the changelog since 4.0.3:
All Platforms

• Update Firefox to 31.5.0esr
• Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1l
• Update NoScript to 2.6.9.15
• Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 4.0.3
• Bug 14203: Prevent meek from displaying an extra update notification
• Bug 14849: Remove new NoScript menu option to make permissions permanent
• Bug 14851: Set NoScript pref to disable permanent permissions

On the other hand AVG and Panda antivirus engines are however flagging the new version as malware and if you are running any of the two virus scanners on your PC, you will not be able to install the new Tor. To install Tor, you have to DISABLE the antivirus prior to installation.

Once installed you can enable the anitvirus again and continue normally. It is awkward that AVG and Panda are flagging Tor as malware because apparently, Microsoft’s own antivirus and malware detector, the Microsoft Security Essentials, finds no issues with new Tor.

You can help Tor community by reporting the flagged issues as ‘false positives’  to both AVG and Panda so that they can make changes in features of their AV products.

The Tor seems to have some bugs related to exit nodes. An anonymous commented said that the Tor crashed when he tried to set ExitNodes {AU}. He also noted that he was not able to reopen the crashed Tor so he reinstalled it. This issue has not been raised by any other user/addressed by the Tor community.

You can get the signing keys by visiting here.

HIGHEST PAYING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES YOU SHOULD LEARN

Most of us know's about C, C++, JAVA and Python etc., but as you go more deeper into this field, you will realize the value and amount of money that can be earned with some other languages.

The favorite coding language debate is one of the hottest and interesting topics of discussion among the coders and programmer has his/her own reasons to defend a particular language. Last year the average salary of a computer programmer inched towards an all-time high of $100,000.

These are the most hiighest paying languages.Coz at the end of the day it's all about big money.

12. PERL - $82,513

11. SQL - $85,511

10. Visual Basic - $85,962

9. C# - $89,074

8. R - $90,055

7. C - $90,134

6. JavaScript – $91,461

5. C++ - $93,502

4. JAVA - $94,908

3. Python - $100,717

2. Objective C - $108,225
1, RUBY ON RAIL - 116,196

5G OF 1TBPS ACHIEVED BY UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

would you like to use a download speed of 1TB per sec? Researchers at University of Surrey have managed to achieve a ming-boggling speed of 1TB under test conditions, while testing Fifth Generation Mobile Telephone or 5G network in University of Surrey.
This was told by Professor Rahim Tafazolli at the #V3 Enterprise Mobility Summit.  Professor Rahim Tafazolli is the director of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at University of Surrey and has been monitoring 5G tests.
Prof.Rahim told V3 that, 

“it was the first time in the world that such speeds had been achieved, far faster than any other tests such as Samsung’s 7.5Gbps results.”

 Explaining the working of 5GIC, the professor said that they had been doing research on the latest technologies which can support 5G services. The technological innovations simply mean's that the research team had been able to achieve the speed of 1Tbps results. “We have developed 10 more breakthrough technologies and one of them means we can cross or touch the 1Tbps barrier on wireless device. This is the same capacity as fibre optics but we are doing it wirelessly,” he told V3.

Prof. Rahim said that the research team carried out this experiment  in complete lab conditions over a distance of 100 meters using transmitters and receivers build by them. He added that they will conduct this experiment outside the university premises in late 2016 or early 2017 and hoped that they could hold a public demonstration in early 2018.
Hoping to stay ahead of other research teams from South Korea, Russia and Japan, the professor stated that, “We want to be the first in the world to show such high speeds.”

Ofcom believes that speeds of 50GB/s is possible on 5G networks when they are implemented commercially but 1TB seems tough in physical conditions outside the university test labs. But the professor does not think so, he says that this speed seems achievable provided they can come up with higher latency and reliability.

“An important aspect of 5G is how it will support applications in the future. We don’t know what applications will be in use by 2020, or 2030 or 2040 for that matter, but we know they will be highly sensitive to latency,” he said.  “We need to bring end-to-end latency down to below one millisecond so that it can enable new technologies and applications that would just not be possible with 4G,” he added.

Though 5G is only on lab stage or testing stage right now, commercial implementation of 5G networks will hopefully be started by the year 2020.

FAMOUS LIZARD SQUAD HACKED AND DEFACED LENOVO.COM

At around 4.00 pm ET, Lizard Squad hacked,defaced and took over the Lenovo website.
while on other side lizard squad tweeted:

Lizard Squad @LizardCircle

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Expect more lizard mischief soon.

11:41 AM - 25 Feb 2015

Lizard Squad @LizardUniverse

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So we've done Google Vietnam and Lenovo, what's next?

4:57 AM - 26 Feb 2015

Meanwhile users who visited Lenovo.com were shown a slideshow of some rambling teenagers and a background song was playing “Breaking Free” from High School Musical.

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We're breaking free! Soarin', flyin', there's not a star in heaven that we can't reach!

2:21 AM - 26 Feb 2015

 

Jonathan Zdziarski‏@JZdziarski

There's your problem, @lenovo.

After around 15 minutes, Lenovo security team gained back partial control of the website but it was not fully operational. The background music was heard by visitors even later in the day, while the defaced page, possibly cached version, was seen intermittently by some visitors.

At around 5.30 pm ET, Lenovo got back the full of control ofwebsite and visitors were shown the below mentioned message :

The Lenovo Web site is currently unavailable but will return soon. To place or check on the status of an order or for any other enquiries, please contact a Lenovo representative during regular business hours.

The hackers, Lizard Squad put a message taunting Lenovo in the source code which said, “the new and improved rebranded Lenovo website featuring Ryan King and Rory Andrew Godfrey.”
Both Ryan and Rory are allegedly members of the Lizard Squad. From the first evaluation, the hack looks like a DNS poisoning or spoofing where the hackers hijacked Lenovo’s domain record and redirect the Lenovo.com url to a new server under which was undertheir control and serving their webpage. Therefore it doesnt seem likely that Lizard Squad accessed Lenovo servers however the site still being down, it is hard to come to any conclusion.

SIRI AND CORTANA BREACHED PRIVACY

 

       "Everything you’ve ever said to Siri/Cortana has been recorded…and I get to listen to it” says an employee of Walk N’Talk Technologies"

A Redditor, FallenMyst today stated on a Reddit thread, people other than the users can also hear easily what the user says to Siri and Cortana and it might be use to harm the user in long run.

FallenMyst fruther said in thread that he had just joined a tech firm, Walk N’Talk Technologies where he had to listen sound bytes, match it with what is said in an audio click and then give the feedback about the quality of performance to his bosses.
He said that he joined a walkntalk company where he get to listen to sound bytes and rate how the text matches up with what is said in an audio clip and give feedback on what should be done to improve things.
So far FallenMyst thought that the sound bytes being given to him for checking may be random. However he noticed a pattern in the voice samples and realised that they were sound samples of users giving voice instructions to their smartphones using either Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana.
Personal conevrsations between users and siri/cortana should not be heard by anyone in a moral dilemma.

“Soon, I realized that I was hearing peoples commands given to their mobile devices. Guys, I’m telling you, if you’ve said it to your phone, it’s been recorded…and there’s a damn good chance a 3rd party is going to hear it, FallenMyst states on the thread.

  It looks like that whatever user says to siri/cortana is recorded and used by third party.
Though it may be innocent stuff like “Siri, do you like me?” but in the end, a unwanted person is hearing a personal communication meant to be for Siri/Cortana’s ears only.

“I heard everything from kiddos asking innocent things like “Siri, do you like me?” to some guy asking Galaxy to lick his bxxxxxe. I wish I was kidding,” FallenMyst states.

Further, if such information being store by Apple or Microsoft, did they asked users before storing it. Can Apple/Microsoft guarantee that such personal conversations are safe from hackersand will not be used against users.  Sometimes, innocent stuff can land you in a soup.

 [–]mjrbac0n 1 point 55 minutes ago

“It’s helps pay for the device, like commercials.” Once the sound waves leave your mouth, you don’t own them anymore anyway.
[–]TheGreenJedi1 pointan hour agoSo i have a quick question OP,
If I remember some similar articles about this stuff happening the data is scrubbed of name and location and many other details, it’d be pretty hard for it to get traced back to a user in regards to the sexting.
Is that true?
Voice Commands are only going to get better through the work your doing at “Walk N’Talk Technologies.” So I’m really not surprised. I consider it my duty to future generations to help this technology work. I’m slightly surprised at the number of people using it for sexting though.
[–]jpgray1 pointan hour ago*Pretty interesting. I wonder if there’s going to be court cases in the near future on this sort of thing & stuff like the samsung TVs and xbox kinect recording people unwittingly. I don’t care what terms of use you agree to when you buy your device, people aren’t knowingly giving consent to this level of monitoring and it’s definitely an invasion of privacy.

 Well he has got a strong case against apple and microsoft for breach terms of agreement and moral values.