Germany gives huge amount of phone, text data to US: Report
Germany’s BND intelligence agency sends mammoth amounts of phone and text data to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) each month, Die Zeit Online reported, highlighting the scale of spying...
View ArticleNSA and allies planned to spy on smartphones via Google, Samsung app stores
NSA along with its allies planned to infect smartphones with spyware via Google and Samsung app stores, reveals a new top-secret document obtained by CBC news shows. The online news site The Intercept...
View ArticleUS Senate blocks NSA surveillance bill and Patriot Act extensions
The Senate struggled unsuccessfully to prevent an interruption in critical government surveillance programs early Saturday, blocking a House-passed bill and several short-term extensions of the USA...
View ArticleUS spy agency wiretapped two French finance ministers: Wikileaks report
The U.S. National Security Agency wiretapped the communications of two successive French finance ministers and collected information on French export contracts, trade and budget talks, according to a...
View ArticleUS courts allow NSA to collect phone metadata till November
A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a judge’s ruling that would have blocked the National Security Agency from collecting phone metadata under a controversial program that has raised privacy...
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Draft encryption policy stands withdrawn in India, but it’s a global problem
The past couple of days have seen a lot of vocal opposition to India’s draft encryption policy. We’re the world’s largest democracy. But there’s one bone of contention that turns freedom into a choice,...
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Once premium, fingerprint scanners are now a budget feature – thanks to...
Do you remember when the iPhone 5s was launched with a fingerprint scanner? That was certainly a turning point. Well, Motorola did launch the Atrix in 2011 with a fingerprint scanner. Yet, it was the...
View ArticleNSA to shut down its bulk surveillance program by Sunday
The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans’ phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama...
View ArticleJuniper Networks to stop using code tied to National Security Agency
Juniper Networks Inc said late on 8 January that it would stop using a piece of security code that analysts believe was developed by the National Security Agency in order to eavesdrop through...
View ArticleNSA says that its new system for domestic telephone records collection meets...
A new system for collecting domestic telephone records meets several privacy and civil liberties benchmarks, the U.S. National Security Agency said on Friday. The program, which some Republican...
View ArticleApple hires Signal’s developer, a secure chat app preferred by Snowden
Frederick Jacobs sent out a tweet yesterday saying that he’s joined Apple’s Core OS security team. Jacobs was a developer at Open Whisper Systems, the company behind Signal. Signal is, of course,...
View ArticleNSA Chief warns of cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure
US National Security Agency chief Michael Rogers warned that hackers will inevitably mount a cyberattack against US infrastructure, similar to the power failure in western Ukraine last year. “It’s only...
View ArticleApple versus FBI takes centre stage at RSA Conference
Just as Apple versus FBI is on the boil, along comes the world’s largest information security event with over 40,000 practitioners from businesses, government, military, academia and every company that...
View ArticleEdward Snowden was FBI’s target in case that shuttered Lavabit
The US government has inadvertently revealed that the target of their attack on Lavabit was, as everyone expected, Edward Snowden, reports Wired. The NSA whistleblower has sought asylum in Russia since...
View ArticleTraffic to Wikipedia terrorism pages dropped after Snowden revelations,...
Internet traffic to Wikipedia pages summarizing knowledge about terror groups and their tools plunged nearly 30 percent after revelations of widespread Web monitoring by the US National Security...
View ArticleDespite Apple case spotlight, push for encryption law falters.
After a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies a “back door” to encrypted...
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