Optical fibres are under NSA snooping -- Privacy is going to smash down

Optical fibres are under NSA snooping -- Privacy is going to smash down In October, a report surfaced that the US National Security Agency secretly accessed data from tech giants like Google and Yahoo, by way of intercepting the unencrypted traffic flowing between each company's data centers. Specifically, it's believed the NSA tapped into the fiber-optic cables that connect those data centers. The New York Times reported Tuesday that...

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Security holes found in D-Link Routers - Security Researchers

A new spate of vulnerabilities have been found in a D-Link router, a security researcher said Monday. The D-Link 2760N, also known as the D-Link DSL-2760U-BN, is susceptible to several cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs through its Web interface, reported ThreatPost.  Liad Mizrachi, the researcher who discovered the bugs, said he notified D-Link about the bugs in August, September, and October, but D-Link did not respond. The report follows a more serious backdoor bug found in the following D-Link routers: DIR-100, DIR-120, DI-524UP,...

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Major Tech. Companies planning to fend off NSA hakcing

The National Security Agency (NSA) might soon have a harder time accessing user data. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, and a other prominent technology companies are investing heavily in stronger, 2048-bit encryption that some say, won't be easily overcome for more than a decade, due to computing power constraints. Google is one of the leaders in the effort, announcing in July that it would encrypt its user data with 2048-bit encryption. According to Bloomberg, which spoke with several other companies that are investing in new encryption,...

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