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Windows Security 101: EMET 4.0

krebsonsecurity.com

June 18, 2013

Several years ago, Microsoft released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a free tool that can help Windows users beef up the security of third-party applications.

This week, Microsoft debuted EMET 4.0, which includes some important new security protections and compatibility fixes for this unobtrusive but effective security tool. First, a quick overview of what EMET does. EMET allows users to force applications to use several key security defenses built into Windows - including Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Put very simply, DEP is designed to make it harder to exploit security vulnerabilities on Windows, and ASLR makes it more difficult for exploits and malware to find the specific places in a system's memory that they need to do their dirty work.

Texas governor signs strongest email privacy law in the US - RT USA

rt.com

June 18, 2013

The United States federal government doesn't need to go through hoops to get your private emails - just ask Gen. David Petraeus - but a new law in Texas makes electronic surveillance a little harder for state law enforcement.

Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law an unprecedented email privacy bill that now makes the Lone Star State the safest place in the US with regards to personal conversations. Under the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986, any email left to sit on a computer server for half a year or longer can be easily obtained by federal law enforcement agents without a probable cause warrant ever being required. Instead, all it takes to comb through troves of emails older than 180 days is a written statement saying it pertains to an investigation. As it stands now under the ECPA, no judicial oversight whatsoever stops any federal investigator from collecting old emails.

Big Sister: Homeland Security seeks NSA-level spying powers

dailycaller.com

by Josh Peterson

June 18, 2013

Pending legislation in Congress aiming to empower DHS' cybersecurity authorities could bring the NSA's capabilities within the department's reach.

Domestic spying capabilities used by the National Security Agency to collect massive amounts of data on American citizens could soon be available to the Department of Homeland Security - a bureaucracy with the power to arrest citizens that is not subject to limitations imposed on the NSA. Unlike the DHS, the NSA is an intelligence agency, not a domestic law enforcement agency. It cannot arrest those suspected of wrongdoing. That power of the federal government lies with agencies under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department, the Treasury, Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies.

U.S. government makes its first-ever Bitcoin seizure

dailydot.com

by Tim Sampson

June 18, 2013

The U.S. government may not print Bitcoin, or regulate it, but apparently the feds can still seize it.

Earlier this week, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency reported that it had seized 11.02 bitcoins-roughly $814-from a South Carolina man attempting to buy illegal substances with the world's leading digital currency. It's the first known seizure of Bitcoin by the U.S. government, signaling just how seriously the feds take Bitcoin and the online black markets it fuels. A report from the DEA notes that the money was netted in April. Little detail is provided about the seizure, which appears on the third-to-the-last page of a 128-page document. Its not even clear what substance the suspect was trying to buy. But for Bitcoin experts, the particulars of this case are less important than the apparent fact that the U.S. government is performing sting operations on Bitcoin sites.

21 Facts About NSA Snooping That Every American Should Know

endoftheamericandream.com

by Michael Snyder

June 17, 2013

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the NSA is actually doing. Are they reading our emails? Are they listening to our telephone calls? Do they target American citizens or is it only foreigners that they are targeting?

Unfortunately, the truth is that we aren't going to get straight answers from our leaders about this. The folks running the NSA have already shown that they are willing to flat out lie to Congress, and Barack Obama doesn't exactly have the greatest track record when it comes to telling the truth. These are men that play word games and tell lies for a living. So it would be unrealistic to expect them to come out and tell us the unvarnished truth about what is going on. That is why it is so important that whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden have come forward. Thanks to them and to the brave journalists that are willing to look into these things, we have been able to get some glimpses behind the curtain. And what we have learned is not very pretty. The following are 21 facts about NSA snooping that every American should know...

Obama Speaks with Forked Tongue on Surveillance

reason.com

June 16, 2013

Does he think we're stupid enough to believe ever-changing official claims about the NSA?

It's bad enough the federal government spies on us. Must it insult our intelligence too? The government's response to Edward Snowden's leaks about the National Security Agency's secret monitoring of the Internet and collection of our telephone logs is a mass of contradictions. Officials have said the disclosures are (1) old news, (2) grossly inaccurate, and (3) a blow to national security. It's hard to see how any two of these can be true, much less all three. Can't they at least get their story straight? If they can't do better than that, why should we have confidence in anything else that they do?

NSA Spying - What You Can Do About It

unsene.com

June 15, 2013

The massive data collection taking place at over 50 companies that we know of so far including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and all the other internet household names, was nothing new to anyone paying attention.

From my personal knowledge, the collection of internet data and emails has been going on since at least 1997. I became aware that year when touring our ISP's colocation facility. The person who worked for the ISP told us point blank "that's the NSA room over there" and that "they were collecting email, web site visit URLs and the like directly from the incoming and outgoing traffic". Our jaws hit the floor when we realized what he had said. The scope of this spying predates 9/11 by years and it covers the entire internet, so you can't say it started with that event. It started from the beginning of the internet and today the public is shocked at the scope of this operation; it's worldwide and impacts everyone who has ever used the internet.

EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project

ssd.eff.org

June 13, 2013

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it. Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?

Snowden Smuggled Documents From NSA on a Thumb Drive

Wired.com

by Kim Zetter

June 13, 2013

The dreaded thumb drive has struck the Defense Department again as word comes that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden smuggled out thousands of classified documents on one of the portable devices, despite the military's efforts to ban them.

Investigators also know how many documents Snowden downloaded from the NSA network and what server he took them from, according to The Los Angeles Times, quoting an unnamed official. Officials have not indicated how many documents Snowden swiped, but the Guardian reported this week that Snowden left Hawaii with four laptops that "enabled him to gain access to some of the US government's most highly-classified secrets." Snowden was a systems administrator, contracted out to the NSA by Booz Allan Hamilton. He worked at the NSA's facility in Hawaii just four weeks before he asked for a leave of absence without pay, then absconded with the documents he'd siphoned from the NSA network on the thumb drive and flew to Hong Kong, where he's been since May 20.

Judge Napolitano on NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'Gov't Took Freedom Under Cover of Darkness'

foxnewsinsider.com

June 10, 2013

We heard from Judge Andrew Napolitano this morning on America's Newsroom on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

. On Sunday, an NSA whistleblower identified himself and said he is seeking protection from U.S. prosecution in Hong Kong. Last week, based on information from 29-year-old Edward Snowden, The Guardian reported that the U.S. government had a top-secret court order to compile phone data from all U.S. Verizon users, triggering a passionate defense of the program by President Obama on Friday. Bill Hemmer asked the judge what he thinks we need to understand about what Snowden is telling us...

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