Kickass Torrents Goes Down; Owner Arrested

Bad news for Kickass torrent fans! If you use Kickass torrent you will probably see an offline message on the site that’s because its owner has been arrested and the site has gone offline since.

The US authorities have arrested the 30-year-old alleged owner of Kickass torrent Artem Vaulin in Poland and charged him with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit money laundering and criminal copyright infringement.

Kickass torrents was founded in 2008 and within no time gained a massive audience not far of The pirate Bay. Vaulin who is believed to be the owner of Kickass Torrent has been arrested because the site has its server based in Chicago, US.

The US Department of Justice has released a press release which reveals that the authorities have charged the owner of

Bulgarian Government Embraces Open Source

Bulgaria's Parliament recently passed legislation mandating open source software to bolster security, as well as to increase competition with commercially coded software.

Amendments to the Electronic Governance Act require that all software written for the government be Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)-compliant. The new provisions reportedly took effect this week.

Software developer Bozhidar Bozhanov, advisor to one of Bulgaria's four deputy prime ministers, orchestrated the new law.

It requires that contracts to create software for the government be developed publicly, meet stated open source definitions, and be provided free for use without limitations. The law affects government-commissioned software only. Existing license agreements are still intact.

The Bulgarian government will continue to buy proprietary software.

"The likely reasons for adoption are to increase transparency and reduce corruption," said Rudolf Olah, a software developer at NeverFriday.com.

"Proprietary vendors use trade secrets to keep

FBI may have found a way into terrorist's iPhone

The courtroom showdown between Department of Justice and Apple that was scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed.

The DOJ made the request after saying it may have found an alternative way into the iPhone used by Syed Farook, the gunman in the San Bernardino shooting. The DOJ has been pressuring Apple for help in gaining access to the iPhone.

But in a court filing on Monday, the DOJ said it may no longer need assistance from Apple.

"On Sunday, March 20, 2016, an outside party demonstrated to the FBI a possible method for unlocking Farook's iPhone...If the method is viable, it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple Inc," the document reads.

Federal investigators want to see what data is available on the iPhone, but it is permanently locked. They can't try to guess the passcode, because if

How the hell could the FBI hack into that iPhone?

Experts have lots of theories, but the one that seems likeliest would be a grind.


On Monday, forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski wrote his own explanation of NAND mirroring and argued that it was the FBI's most likely tool.

Still, there are other possibilities.
Exploiting a software flaw

The feds could conceivably hack Apple's software running the iPhone through a software flaw, according to Johnson. That vulnerability might affect the way the phone works over wireless Internet, Bluetooth or cellular communications, or investigators might find a flawed app on the phone they could use to their advantage.

Whatever it is, the flaw would have to be severe to let investigators all the way into the phone's core and tell it to open. The biggest problem with this theory is that

Cybercriminals impersonating India’s Income Tax Department to send malicious emails: Symantec

“While each email differs in its template, the goal is the same: to infect computers with an information-stealing Trojan that logs keystrokes. It also collects system information like titles of open windows and the operating system version that is sent back to attacker command and control server,” he said.

The mails stating that money has been deducted contain an attached file that claim to be a receipt for the payment. The alleged receipts are ZIP files that contain information-stealing malware that Symantec detects as Infostealer.Donx, he said.

On the other hand, the

Anonymous ‘Operation Isis’ accused of wrongly naming innocent people after Paris attacks

Anonymous’s “war” on Isis is leading to innocent people being wrongly reported as members of the militant group.

The 'hacktivist' network launched an operation to identify and shut down the accounts of Islamic extremists in the wake of the attacks in Paris, but people who are not affiliated to Isis appear to have been identified as part of the

Snowden slams UK government over encryption 'backdoor' plans

The UK government wants backdoor access to communications for "everything people actually use", Edward Snowden has claimed.

The former NSA contractor took to Twitter to criticise comments from Baroness Shields, the UK minister for internet safety and security, over her position on encrypted data.

Shields said the government

THIS ONLINE ANONYMITY BOX PUTS YOU A MILE AWAY FROM YOUR IP ADDRESS

IN THE GAME of anonymity-versus-surveillance online, the discovery of the user’s IP address usually means game over. But if Ben Caudill has his way, a network snoop who successfully hunts a user through layers of proxy connections to a final IP address would be met with a dead end—while the anonymous user

Programmers are copying security flaws into your software, researchers warn

Many software developers are cribbing code, and its flaws, that someone else created. And the problem is only getting harder to keep up with.

Security researchers say that many software flaws are
 simply copied by programmers from other sources.

 It's easy to assume that hackers work way above our pay grade. Electronic intruders must be able to exploit vulnerabilities in the software we use because they're evil geniuses, right?

That may be the case in some very sophisticated attacks, experts say, but in others, not so much. Programmers -- the people who create the software -- don't write all their code from scratch, instead borrowing freely from others' work. The problem: they're not vetting the code for security problems.

Working more as code assemblers than as writers, programmers are sourcing about 80 percent to 90 percent of the code in any

Menlo Security Emerges From Stealth With $25M And Plan To Defeat Malware

Menlo Security, a company with a unique plan to battle malware, emerged from stealth today and also announced $25M in Series B funding.

The idea is an intriguing one. Many security problems emanate from malware, which can give hackers a path into a system where they can

Attackers Use Trojanized Version of PuTTY to Steal SSH Credentials

Malicious actors are using a trojanized version of PuTTY, the popular open-source Secure Shell (SSH) and telnet client, to gain access to remote computers and steal valuable data, Symantec warned on Monday.

According to experts, the attackers created the malicious PuTTY back in late 2013, when they uploaded a sample to VirusTotal. Symantec says this trojanized version

How to find out if you’ve been HACKED with CMD

There are numerous methods to see if you have been hacked. Using the Command Prompt, you can run a command which will check for incoming and outgoing connections to your computer. By checking all the established connections, you can