Government Surveillance
If you've kept up with all of the revelations from the Edward Snowden leak, it may seem that the National Security Agency already has all of the surveillance tools and access it could ever need. But according to a new leak from the ex-NSA contractor, published first by The Washington Post, the NSA is working on the mother of all digital spying tools: a quantum computer.
The National Security Agency essentially bribed an important industry computer and network security firm to put a secret backdoor in their encryption formulas, according to a new report.
Since the late summer, we've known that the FBI had an elite hacker squad to develop surveillance on terrorism and organized crime suspects using malware. Now new details are emerging about the capabilities of that malware, and it reportedly includes using a suspect's laptop camera to spy on them.
Yahoo's denial of willingly giving "direct access" to the National Security Agency may be intact, but that doesn't mean that the NSA didn't have it, according to new revelations from former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Google is furthering the cause of free expression and anti-authoritarianism on the internet with a new lattice of programs designed to protect human rights organizations and news sources from attacks on the web.
Of all the companies to push for higher cybersecurity standards, Huawei had to walk into the conversation. China's largest phone maker, Huawei Technologies Co., said in a white paper published this week that it wants IT companies and regulators to work on a new broad range of security standards.
Information about the surveillance programs employed by the National Security Agency keeps being published from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks. This time it's email and instant messenger lists that the U.S. agency is slurping up.
The National Security Agency has been trying to hack into Tor networks, according to a new report by The Guardian's NSA watcher Glenn Greenwald. Ironically, the NSA's attempts to hack the online anonymity tool are an example of one U.S. government agency trying to defuse something promoted by another U.S. Federal agency.
"I cross-referenced his YouTube profile through his MySpace..." - Kyle Broflovski. The kids of South Park had it right six years ago, using social media to track down terrorists. Three years later, in 2010, the National Security Agency began creating sophisticated graphs identifying the social connections of some Americans.
Google might not track you anymore - using cookies, that is. A recent report says that Google is considering changing the way it tracks online browsing activities, retiring the "cookie" and replacing it with an anonymous identifier called AdID.
Yahoo has issued its first of twice-yearly transparency reports.
The NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden seem to be endless, as a new report from Der Spiegel shows that the National Security Agency spied on the internal communications of Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera.
After Edward Snowden exposed the NSA's PRISM program, which involved several top technology companies' cooperation, those companies began disclosing information and demanding permission from the government to be more transparent with their customers. But perhaps the newest revelation wasn't the kind of transparency they wanted.
If you were freaked out by recent reports that the NSA had a program to track users on the internet, you will probably not like to know this: According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, the FBI has hacking tools that can spy on suspects using their smartphone and laptop microphones, among many other tools.
Microsoft, on Tuesday, pressed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to allow it to publish more information about its involvement in the NSA's PRISM program, while also denying recent assertions that it helped the NSA circumvent encryption on its online services.
