Snowden: American and Canadian agencies spied on Brazilian Energy Ministry

Posted by: HNBulletin in CSCE, News, NSA PRISM, snowden, Special Reports October 7, 2013 0

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Latest leak by Edward Snowden reflects that Canada & U.S  spied on the Brazilian Energy Ministry. The documents leaked by Snowden explore—how the data reaped through spying was shared with international spy network the ‘Five Eyes.’

Who’s behind Five Eyes?

The Group Five Eyes includes— United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Newly-released documents were handed over to Guardian Journalist Glenn Greenwald, that describes—how Canadian spy agency works like NSA.

“I was overwhelmed by the power of the tools used. The Ministry of Energy and Mines was totally dissected,” security expert Paulo Pagliusi told Fantastico (A Brazilian program), which first spotted the news.

That Brazilian program reported—In a meeting with the ‘Five Eyes’ network,  the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSCE) presented that the target is Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil, according to the program the meeting was held in June of last year and Snowden was at this meeting.

In the meeting, program named ‘Olympia’ was discussed to breakthrough the Brazilian ministry’s encryption.

“They [Five Eyes] are sharing all the information, handing over documents to let other countries know exactly what they are doing,” said Glen Greenwald.

What’s inside Olympia?

For the Inside view of Ministry, the CSCE developed a detailed map of the institution’s communications and after that Olympia help them for:

• Monitoring email and electronic communications
• Eavesdropping on telephone conversations
• Olympia also included that strategy—which was able to identify mobile numbers, SIM card registrations and the make of a phone.

Canada refused to comment on its Spy program, and Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy Edison Lobao told Fantastico that the reports were “serious” and should be condemned.

“Canada has interests in Brazil, especially in the mining sector. Does this spying serve the commercial interests of select groups? I cannot say,” observed Lobao.

One of the image from the presentation of CSCE:

Photo- One of the page from the presentation of CSCE—exploring how to reveal target’s handsets. VIA- Fantastico

The Google Boy: Meet Five-Year-Old Indian boy, who beats Google in knowledge

Posted by: HNBulletin in INDIA, News, Special Reports October 7, 2013 0

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Photo- Kautilya Sharma

INDIA: What could be remembered by a Five-Year-Old boy—what he ate last night/ what’s his name/ what’s his father’s name,  but a boy is also here, who have knowledge in his mind—like Google has in it’s database.

Five-years-old boy named ‘Kautilya’ have an extremely sharp knowledge of G.K, an Indian TV channel (INDIA TV) showed out—how he beats Internet/Google in knowledge.

Kautilya studies in Class One, right now he is living in Kharhar village in Jhajjar district (HARYANA.)

Kautilya learnt by rote info relating to geographical borders, planets in space, mineral resources, etc. in the last three months during this year’s summer holidays, says his grandfather Jaikishan Sharma, who taught his grandson.

India TV invited Kautilya on their TV show,  Where anchor, celebrities and other guests questioned him about geographical info like area, deserts, etc. of about various countries across the world—Kautilya answered most of them, with minor mistakes.

During a test by India TV, Kautilya answered 4 questions in 35 seconds, whereas, the anchor took 2:35 to find out answers of those 4 questions through Internet.

“Kautilya studies for two-and-a-half hours daily. Kautilya has a knack of probing things. He has an enviable knowledge of almost every field, including world geography, the states of India, their chief ministers, languages and religions. But he has a special expertise in the world map,” says Kautilya’s father.

State Government of Haryana rewarded Kautilya with Rs.10 lakh (approximate $1600).

Kautilya has appeared in many TV News shows, and has been invited to the “Kaun Banega Crorepati” (KBC) quiz programme on TV. Now-a-days Kautilya becoming popular with the name of “Google Boy.”

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NSA Fear: More than 11 Million users from U.S & U.K quitted Facebook

Posted by: HNBulletin in Facebook, News, Special Reports October 5, 2013 0

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Right now Facebook stands at no.1 in social networking sites, but users also concern for their privacy and to take care for that many of the users have deleted their FB accounts.

According to a research—Earlier this year, approximately 9 million Facebook users in the US and 2 million people in the UK have deleted their accounts.

Analysis of more than 600 people, by researchers from the University of Vienna, found that data protection issues and social pressure to add friends were also among the reasons for leaving.

NSA fear also stated in the report by Brenda Wiederhold, editor of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking which published the findings, she said:

‘Given high profile stories such as WikiLeaks and the recent NSA surveillance reports, individual citizens are becoming increasingly more wary of cyber-related privacy concerns.

Have a look to a report of “Reasons of quitting Facebook”

Privacy concerns	48.3 %
General dissatisfaction	13.5 %
Shallow conversations	12.6 %
Fear of becoming addicted	6 %
VIA- Statcounters/Eircom B&A Survey 2013

As Facebook quitters are increasing day-by-day, some of the Apps & websites already online to help them.  Apps such as the Suicide Machine and Seppukoo assist by automatically deleting private content, friends and pictures and making accounts inaccessible with password changes.

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Adobe Hacked, 3 Million Customers’ data stolen along with credit/debit cards

Posted by: HNBulletin in Adobe, Brian Krebs, Database Breached, Database Hacked, News, Security Researchers, Special Reports October 4, 2013 0

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Yesterday, Adobe suffered from a massive security breach in which three million customers were affected—their IDs, passwords, and credit card information accessed by hackers.

A security bulletin by Adobe reads:

Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords  on our systems. We also believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million  Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other  information relating to customer orders. At this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or  debit card numbers from our systems. Along with the confidential information of the customers—source code for numerous Adobe products were also accessed.

Adobe said, it would change the ”relevant customer passwords” as a precaution, it will also notify affected customers through E-mail to change their passwords. Adobe also stated—”Users who use same passwords on other sites as they use on Adobe, also change their passwords as well.”

One more important notification from Adobe also came out—whose credit or debit card information was compromised would be offered a year’s membership in a credit monitoring service courtesy of Adobe.

Security researcher, ‘Krebs‘ wrote about the product whose source code was accessed—”ColdFusion Web application platform and possibly [the] Acrobat family of products” were among those affected.

Adobe informed federal law enforcement authorities about this breach as well as its banking and payment processing partners.

As we said above, Those customers whose credit or debit cards information exposed would be offered a year’s membership in a credit monitoring service courtesy of Adobe—Is This A Reliable Step??, we want to hear from you, leave a comment.

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