Hacking

If You Made a ’10 Concerts I Went to, One Is a Lie’ Post, We Have News for You

(ANTIMEDIA) On Sunday, the New York Times asked its readers if they took part in the latest viral meme — the “10 Concerts I’ve Been To, One is a Lie” post — that swept across Facebook last week.
But the piece wasn’t about the meme itself. It was about the potential threat to personal privacy and security that participating in such games poses.
“It’s all fun and games until someone’s password security question gets hacked,” the article opens.

New Leak Shows NSA Hacked Overseas Banking Networks

This June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md.
A new set of documents published by a group calling itself TheShadowBrokers suggests that the U.S. National Security Agency has burrowed deep into the Middle East’s financial network.
TheShadowBrokers, which startled security experts last year by releasing some of the NSA’s hacking tools, has resumed pouring secrets into the public domain, this time by publishing purported details of the NSA’s operations against banks across the Arab world.

SPRING CLEANING: New Wikileaks Vault 7 Release Claims CIA’s ‘Marble’ Disguises Hacking as Other Nations

21st Century Wire says…
Over the past month, Wikileaks reportedly gathered much of the CIA’s cyber hacking capabilities in their Wikileaks ‘Vault 7’ publication under the moniker Year Zero. Now the transparency seeking website, has published 676 source code files  for the CIA’s secret anti-forensic Marble Framework,” in part 3 of its series.