Future Weapons of the NSA: Quantum Computers
The Washington post revealed that NSA is spending a great effort to build a quantum computer that could break most types of encryption.
The NSA...
NSA will Track Your Smartphone Finger Strokes
Smartphone technology built by Lockheed Martin promises to verify a user's identity based on the swiftness and shape of the individual’s finger strokes on...
Digital jihad: ISIS, Al Qaeda seek a cyber caliphate to launch...
Jihadists in the Middle East are ramping up efforts to mount a massive cyber attack on the U.S., with leaders from both Islamic State...
NSA Wants To Monitor Your Pacemaker
The NSA wants to monitor and collection information from pacemakers and other biomedical devices for national security purposes, The Verge reports. The idea, it...
NSA Didn’t Crack The San Bernardino iPhone – Here’s Why
Is there anything the US National Security Agency can’t do? It can tap undersea fibre optic cables in real time, track the locations of...
The NSA To Undergo Major Reorganisation For The 21st Century
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is about to undergo a major reorganisation, according to past and current agency officials. The world’s largest electronic...
Harvard: US Can’t Ban Encryption
US can’t be successful in banning encryption as it is a global phenomenon, according to Harvard study.
Despite over two years’ efforts by the...
US cities vying to become nation’s cyber hub
The need for cybersecurity solutions and experts is going to grow as more companies such as Sony Pictures, Target, Home Depot, and Chase are...
Big Data Role in Intelligence Missions
The operational world that interests governments the most nowadays is the intelligence world. Unlike the “national/military” intelligence of the past, the current intelligence realm...
Cyber Wars: From Regional Nuisance to Global Threats
Today’s small wars and border conflicts are being fought online and under the radar, but the conflicts could escalate into real world wars.
Last year,...
Law Enforcement and National Security vs. Global Business Interests
Yoram Hacohen
Three interesting processes are underway as a direct result of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of the access by US security services...
NSA Elite Hackers Exposed
Der Spiegel revealed that the TAO unit of NSA planted backdoors to access computers, hard drives, routers, and other devices from principal vendors.
Germany’s Der...
DoD Wants IoT Standards
A standardisation of common protocols and interconnections is required if the US Department of Defense (DoD) is to take advantage of the Internet of...
The Big Brother Features a British Accent
The right for privacy or the general interest to safeguard the public's privacy – which one wins in case of a clash? After failing...
NSA Surveillance Software Infecting Thousands of Computers Worldwide
A sophisticated spying campaign infected tens of thousands of computers worldwide with surveillance software, some embedded in hard drives, according to a report from...
Germany Tightens The Reins On Spy Service
The US National Security Agency (NSA) overstepped an intelligence-sharing agreement with Germany by requesting German technicians to snoop on allied governments‘ emails, a top-level...
Government Data Requests From Facebook At All-Time High
Facebook has released its biannual report on government data requests, indicating that total law enforcement requests are at their highest level ever at 41,214...
Former NSA Agent Becomes Cyber-Privacy Guru
Two brothers, John and Will Ackerly - a former NSA employee and a George W. Bush White House insider - have launched a cyber-privacy...
Will Information Sharing Among Intelligence Agencies Risk Privacy?
In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency (N.S.A.) to share globally intercepted personal communications with...
Leaks foil N.S.A. Plan for Cyberdefense
The leaked information about the operations of the N.S.A. in the U.S. have foiled a huge Cyber defense plan.
Even while rapidly expanding its electronic...
Israel Had Access to Raw NSA Data
An unprecedented MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) allowing Israel free access to raw data collected by the NSA, including all U.S. civilian communications, was secretly...
NSA’s ‘MonsterMind’ could automate cyber war
The National Security Agency is developing a cybersecurity machine that could detect and automatically counter attacks against U.S. computers by blocking access to American networks, according...
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