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...
Caught in the Net of the NSA
Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency from U.S. digital...
The U.S. love spies
National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.
The practice isn’t...
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...
NSA Exploited HeartBleed Vulnerability
The NSA knew about and exploited the Heartbleed vulnerability for two years before it was publicly exposed this week, and used it to steal...
US Military Cybersecurity to Become Separate Entity
Changes are expected in the US military cybersecurity infrastructure. After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp US military command...
Digital Privacy Services Enjoying a Surge in Demand
Digital privacy services such as encrypted e-mail, secure instant messaging, and services that provide hard-to-track IP addresses are enjoying a surge in demand as...
NSA Tried to Crack U.S. Funded Anonymity Protection System
The National Security Agency (NSA) has repeatedly tried to develop attacks against people using Tor, a software tool designed to protect online anonymity –...
NSA May Expose the Bad Habits of Radical Islamic Leaders
The National Security Agency is considering exposing the pornography viewing habits of Muslim "radicalizers," according to documents that the Huffington Post has obtained from...
Report: NSA broke into UN video teleconferencing system
The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly cracked the encryption used by the video teleconferencing system at the United Nations headquarters in New York...
NSA Program Captures, Replays Phone Calls
The NSA’s MYSTIC program, created in 2009, deploys a “retrospective retrieval” (RETRO) tool which allows agents to rewind and playback all phone conversations that...
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...
NSA Hacked International Telecom Cables
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has collected sensitive data on key telecommunications cables between Europe, north Africa and Asia, German news magazine Der...
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...
Tech Firms Would Rather Shut Down Than Cooperate With NSA
Revelations of the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have sparked technical innovations, legal challenges,...
NSA eavesdropping as business opportunity
To many Americans, online eavesdropping by the U.S. National Security Agency is an outrage, a threat to privacy and freedom. To some, it's a business opportunity.
A small but...
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...
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...
U.S. Court: NSA Didn’t Violate Constitution
The U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection and storage of phone metadata does not violate the U.S. Constitution, according to a federal judge's decision.
The...
NSA Records Every Phone Call in the Bahamas
The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the...
Cyber Wars? Not So Fast
Cyber attacks are where the modern battles take place: Military cyber attacks, like those used by Russia during its invasion of Georgia or political...
Snowden: US attempt to monitor emails in Syria botched
Exiled leaker Edward Snowden strikes once more. In a new interview, he disclosed that the NSA caused a massive internet blackout in Syria following...
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