Al Jazeera obtained the emails exchanged between Google executives and former NSA director Alexander which suggest that Google is very close to NSA. The IT Giants Apple, Google and Microsoft always denied any involvement in the surveillance program despite Edward Snowden as produced different documents attesting to the inconvenient truth. Now a new event is shocking the […]
Covert Redirect vulnerability is the security flaw in the open standards for authorization OAuth and OpenID that is menacing IT industry. Another security flaw in the open standards for authorization OAuth and OpenID is scaring IT industry. Just a few weeks after the disclosure of the Heartbleed vulnerability, another major flaw was discovered in the open […]
A Team of researchers discovered a critical XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability on Google server that allows an attacker to access any internal file. A group of researchers has discovered a critical vulnerability Google search engine that could allow an attacker to access the internal files of the production Google server. I desire to describe this […]
Two Israeli students at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology were able to cause traffic jams hacking the popular navigation app Waze for a school project. In many films we have seen bad hackers who were able to cause Traffic Jams causing death and destruction, this was possible because filmmakers are aware of the high penetration level […]
F-Secure has identified a malware dubbed Coremex that takes advantage of plugin functionality provided by browsers to hijack search engine results. Search engine are a strategic component in the successful execution of any attacks, we saw in the past Black SEO campaigns conducted with the primary intent to provide results that help the attackers to […]
A security researcher reported to Tesla company a series of security issues related with S model that could be exploited to locate and unlock the vehicles. Hackers are able to remotely locate or unlock the Tesla Motors electric vehicles, the news is curious but it isn’t a novelty. Car hacking was largely discussed in the last […]
The Turkish Government ordered to Turk Telekom to hijack the IP address for popular free and open DNS providers such as Googleâs 8.8.8.8. This is a sad moment for friends in Turkey, the Government  is under the illusion that censoring the media will be able to suppress the thought of those who disagree. A few […]
Google has published its new Google Transparency Report related to the second semester of 2013, the number of requests for user information is still increasing. While the Internet users continue to claim their right to online privacy condemning the numerous surveillance program and the censorship conducted by governments all around the world, it seems that the […]
Google has announced to have adopted encrypt mechanisms for all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users. Google decided to encrypt all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users, all the links between its data centers will be encrypted. The surveillance programs disclosed by documents leaked […]
Google DNS public server was hijacked yesterday for 22 minutes, the victims were hijacked to the Latin America division of BT in Venezuela and Brazil. Google is undoubtedly the main targets for hackers, its services are accessed daily by billions of Internet users, a wide audience desirable for attackers. The last successfully attack against Google […]