A security researcher created a $1,500 cell phone base station kit (including a laptop and two RF antennas) that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls (non Gold Lock) in the clear. Most of the price is for the laptop he used to operate [...]

A software developer who designed a way to tap and record calls made on Skype and other VoIP networks has made the source code of the spying program public, a move he said will allow other programmers to build workarounds to the potential threat. The programmer, Ruben Unteregger, was tasked by his former company ERA [...]

The state of Virginia has recently came under the international spotlight after it apparently became under attack by an anonymous hacker who claims to have stolen around 35 million prescription records of those residing in the state. This supposed vulnerability has still not been identified, and state information security professionals are still dumbfounded as to [...]