Whistleblower-friendly site Cryptome booted briefly offline for hosting "malicious content"
US whistleblower-friendly site Cryptome recently suffered a short outage, after it was booted offline by its ISP and then let back. Paul Ducklin looks for security lessons in the story… more…Whistleblower-friendly site Cryptome booted briefly offline for hosting “malicious content”
US whistleblower-friendly site Cryptome recently suffered a short outage, after it was booted offline by its ISP and then let back. Paul Ducklin looks for security lessons in the story… more…Cryptome Hacked
Cryptome.org is a website that has focused on publishing information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. In many ways, Cryptome is similar to WikiLeaks — except it has been operating since 1996. The site is run by a New York based architect called John Young. Cryptome has just announced it has been hacked. […] more…OPSEC For Activists, Because Encryption Is No Guarantee
“None of the claims of what comsec works is to be taken saltless: Tor, OTR, ZTRP are lures.” —Cryptome [3], Dec. 30, 2014 Tags: Encryption Security more…Anonymous engineers claim BT gives spies backdoors to customer data
Carrier BT provides the British intelligence agency GCHQ and its American counterpart the NSA with direct access to customer data through the Internet modems it supplies, claims a 50-page document posted anonymously on the Cryptome site today. Tags: BT Industry News more…Boffins follow TOR breadcrumbs to identify users
It’s easier to identify TOR users than they believe, according to research published by a group of researchers from Georgetown University and the US Naval Research Laboratory (USNRL). Their paper, Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries, is to be presented in November at November’s Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) […] more…
Engineering mistake exposes Lion passwords in clear-text
Apple’s latest update to OS X contains a dangerous programming error that reveals the passwords for material stored in the first version of FileVault, the company’s encryption technology, a software consultant said. David I. Emery wrote on Cryptome that a debugging switch inadvertently left on in the current release of Lion, version 10.7.3, records in […] more…More information
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