nsa prism
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.
Documents released Tuesday show that United States NSA officials accessed information to thousands of phone records that they didn't have legal authority to inspect, according to a report by the Miami Herald.
The details about the National Security Agency's cyber surveillance efforts continue to emerge after the Edward Snowden NSA leak earlier this summer. Each subsequent report about the NSA's powers seem to describe even more sweeping cyber surveillance capabilities than before, and this time is no different.
Yahoo has issued its first of twice-yearly transparency reports.
The details for the $52.6 billion budget for covert action, surveillance, intelligence and counterintelligence were leaked by Edward Snowden
In the wake of NSA agent Edward Snowden's revelations that government project PRISM allows the government to tap phone calls, email, and web browsing of any citizen without a warrant, private internet customers are increasingly turning to Tor, an anonymity network that allows people to securely browse without fear of being hacked.
