ProtonMail denies that it offer real-time surveillance assistance

By Ryan De Souza
ProtonMail, the famous end-to-end encrypted email service from Switzerland, has denied the claims made by a Swiss lawyer Martin Steiger regarding the company’s involvement in voluntary assistance to Swiss authorities for real-time surv… Continue reading ProtonMail denies that it offer real-time surveillance assistance

Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. Continue reading Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

Hackers target ‘hundreds’ of Middle East activists with fake login pages, 2FA bypass schemes

Hackers have been going after email accounts of hundreds of Middle East-based human rights activists, journalists and others using methods that bypass security features of services like Google, Yahoo, ProtonMail and Tutanota, according to a report published Wednesday by Amnesty International. The human rights watchdog says its likely that a single group of hackers has been using clever pages that mimic secure login pages, as well as tricks that bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) to target accounts at least throughout 2017 and 2018. The targets are mostly in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Yemen and Palestine, the group said. “What makes these campaigns especially troubling is the lengths to which they go to subvert the digital security strategies of their targets,” the group says in the report. Amnesty International analyzes the activity as two separate campaigns. One uses fake pages that look like they belong to ProtonMail and Tutanota in order to get […]

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Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years

The alleged ringleader of a gang of cyber hooligans that made bomb threats against hundreds of schools and launched debilitating denial-of-service attacks against Web sites (including KrebsOnSecurity on multiple occasions) has been sentenced to three y… Continue reading Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years