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Submission + - Cellebrite can now unlock iPhone 6 and 6+ (cyberscoop.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: A year after the battle between the FBI and Apple over unlocking an iPhone 5s, smartphone cracking company Cellebrite announced it can now unlock the iPhone 6 and 6+ for customers at rates ranging from $1,500 to $250,000. The company's newest products also extract and analyze data from a wide range of popular apps including all of the most popular secure messengers around.

Submission + - Cisco patches 'ExtraBacon' zero-day exploit leaked by NSA hackers (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: After a group of hackers stole and published a set of NSA cyberweapons earlier this week, the multibillion dollar tech firm Cisco is now updating its software to counter two potent leaked exploits that attack and take over crucial security software used to protect corporate and government networks.

  “Cisco immediately conducted a thorough investigation of the files released, and has identified two vulnerabilities affecting Cisco ASA devices that require customer attention,” the company said in a statement. “On Aug. 17, 2016, we issued two Security Advisories, which deliver free software updates and workarounds where possible.”

Submission + - Baton Rouge police database hacked in retaliation for killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: Just days after the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police prompted international outrage and a Justice Department investigation, the Baton Rouge city government's servers have been hacked and 50,000 city police records leaked including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers.

Submission + - Russian bill requires encryption backdoors in all messenger apps (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: A new bill in the Russian Duma, the country's lower legislative house, proposes to make cryptographic backdoors mandatory in all messaging apps in the country so the Federal Security Service—the successor to the KGB—can obtain special access to all communications within the country. Russian Senator Elena Mizulina argued that the new bill ought to become law because, she said, teens are brainwashed in closed groups on the internet to murder police officers, a practice protected by encryption. Mizulina then went further.

Submission + - The great debate over how to save Ethereum (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: As a $60 million hack beginning Friday morning continues to suck virtual currency out of DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation), an organization with huge amounts of Ethereum, the currency's community is currently debating a course forward for a currency who is built on the idea that it is governed by software and not human beings. One option is to fork the code, another is to do absolutely nothing at all.

Submission + - The company that poached the FBI's entire Silk Road investigation team (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: The FBI team that brought down Silk Road has a new home. After headline-grabbing investigations, arrests, and prosecutions on some of America's highest-profile cybercriminals, five of U.S. law enforcement’s most prized cybercrime aces have all left government service for greener pastures—a titan consulting firm called Berkeley Research Group (BRG).

BRG's newly hired gang of five includes former federal prosecutor Thomas Brown, as well as former FBI agents Christopher Tarbell, Thomas Kiernan, and Ilhwan Yum—names that punctuated many of the biggest cybercrime stories of the last decade including Silk Road, LulzSec, Liberty Reserve, as well as the hacks of Citibank, PNC Bank, Société Générale, and more.

Submission + - Former Tor developer created malware to hack Tor users for the FBI (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: Matt Edman is a cybersecurity expert who worked as a part-time employee at Tor Project, the nonprofit that builds Tor software and maintains the network, almost a decade ago. Since then, he's developed potent malware used by law enforcement to unmask Tor users. It's been wielded in multiple investigations by federal law-enforcement and U.S. intelligence agencies in several high-profile cases.

Submission + - French bill carries 5-year jail sentence for company refusals to decrypt data fo (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: Employees of companies in France that refuse to decrypt data for police can go to prison for five years under new legislation from conservative legislators. The punishment for refusing to hand over access to encrypted data is a five year jail sentence and $380,000 fine. Telecom companies would face their own penalties, including up to two years in jail. French politicians criticized American companies in particular: "They deliberately use the argument of public freedoms to make money knowing full well that the encryption used to drug traffickers, to serious [criminals] and especially to terrorists. It is unacceptable that the state loses any control over encryption and, in fact, be the subject of manipulation by U.S. multinationals.”

Submission + - Amazon just removed encryption from the software powering Kindles, phones, and t (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: While Apple continues to resist a court order requiring it to help the FBI access a terrorist's phone, another major tech company took a strange and unexpected step away from encryption. that powers its Kindle e-reader, Fire Phone, Fire Tablet, and Fire TV devices.The change, which took effect in Fire OS 5, affects millions of users.

Submission + - Congressman: Court ordering Apple to hack iPhone has far reaching implications (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: Hours after Apple was ordered to help the FBI access the San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), a Stanford University computer-science graduate, wondered where the use of the All Writs Act—on which the magistrate judge based her ruling—might lead. "Can courts compel Facebook to provide analytics of who might be a criminal?" Lieu said in an email to the Daily Dot. "Or Google to give a list of names of people who searched for the term ISIS? At what point does this stop?"

Submission + - As elections approach, Iran uses "far more advanced" Internet censorship (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: Election time in Iran means increased censorship for the country's tens of millions of Internet users. But this months parliamentary election, experts say, comes with a new level of aggressive censorship from a government notorious for authoritarianism in cyberspace. “What’s happening [right now] is far more advanced than anything we’ve seen before,” said Karl Kathuria, CEO of Psiphon Inc., the company behind the widely popular encryption and circumvention tool Psiphon. “It’s a lot more concentrated attempt to stop these services from working.”

Submission + - U.S. encryption ban would only send the market overseas (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: A U.S. legislatures posture toward legally mandating backdoored encryption, a new Harvard study suggests that a ban would push the market overseas because most encryption products come from over non-U.S. tech companies. “Cryptography is very much a worldwide academic discipline, as evidenced by the quantity and quality of research papers and academic conferences from countries other than the U.S.," the researchers wrote.

Submission + - Sensitive information can be revealed from Tor hidden services on Apache (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: A common configuration mistake in Apache, the most popular Web server software in the world, can allow anyone to look behind the curtains on a hidden server to see everything from total traffic to active HTTP requests. When an hidden service reveals the HTTP requests, it's revealing every file—a Web page, picture, movie, .zip, anything at all—that's fetched by the server. Tor's developers were aware of the issue as early as last year but decided against sending out an advisory. The problem is common enough that even Tor's own developers have made the exact same mistake. Until October 2015, the machine that welcomed new users to the Tor network and checked if they were running up-to-date software allowed anyone to look at total traffic and watch all the requests.

Submission + - Senior Homeland Security official says Internet anonymity should be outlawed (dailydot.com) 1

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: A senior Homeland Security official recently argued that Internet anonymity should outlawed in the same way that driving a car without a license plate is against the law.

“When a person drives a car on a highway, he or she agrees to display a license plate,” Erik Barnett, an assistant deputy director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and attache to the European Union at the Department of Homeland Security, wrote. “The license plate’s identifiers are ignored most of the time by law enforcement. Law enforcement will use the identifiers, though, to determine the driver’s identity if the car is involved in a legal infraction or otherwise becomes a matter of public interest. Similarly, should not every individual be required to display a ‘license plate’ on the digital super-highway?”


Submission + - French conservatives push law to ban strong encryption (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill writes: The French parliament this week will examine a bill that would require tech manufacturers of computers, phones, and tablets to build backdoors into any encryption on the device. The anti-encryption bill is being presented by 18 conservative members of the National Assembly as part of a large "Digital Republic" bill.

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