Adobe has patched a Flash Player zero-day vulnerability – CVE-2015-5119 – identified in the recent Hacking Team leak, but not before it was added into a variety of exploit kits for use in ongoing attacks. Link: Exploit kits observed using Flash Player zero-day bug, Adobe issues fix
GWEN IFILL: Earlier in the day, the Obama administration went to Capitol Hill to make its case to allow government great access to encrypted information. Link: Can the government balance encryption access with privacy?
Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA’s XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA’s metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says: Link: XKeyscore Exposé Reaffirms the Need to Rid the Web of Tracking …
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Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, FBI Director Comey wants you to know that he doesn’t want another crypto war. As he said today in hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), he just wants a discussion. Link: Our Top Five Takeaways From Today’s Hearings on Encryption
Imagine you’re a world leader walking into a meeting with the president of the United States. But he already knows everything you’re going to say because his spies hacked into your communications and read your notes before you got there. That’s not a plot for the latest James Bond flick. Link: NSA’s spying on UN …
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