Appropriations Amendment Threatens to Cut Funding for NSA Collection Program

A small group of Congressmen is trying to cut off the funding for the NSA’s widespread collection of phone and Internet records under the “business records” collection provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The provision in FISA that enables law enforcement agencies to get access...

Congress Warns Section 215 May Not Be Renewed

Incensed at the way that the Department of Justice and the intelligence community have used the controversial section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, members of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday angrily questioned Justice and NSA officials about their surveillance of U.S. citizens and said that...

Dennis Fisher Talks With Chris Soghoian on NSA, PRISM and Privacy

Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Soghoian of the ACLU about the NSA surveillance leaks, the PRISM data collection program, the lack of good privacy options for consumers and his upcoming talk at DEF CON on government hacking operations. Download: digitalunderground118...

Google, Microsoft Seek Help in Lifting FISA Gag Order

Google and Microsoft have locked arms with a number of civil liberties advocates in filing a brief with the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court hoping to lift a gag order preventing the two tech giants from releasing information on their role in the NSA’s surveillance activities. To...

Iceland parliament member fails to Grant Citizenship to Whistleblower Edward Snowden

Members of Iceland's Pirate Party have introduced a proposal in Parliament that would grant immediate citizenship to National Security Agency Whistleblower Edward Snowden. The government is however not keen on helping Snowden. The bill to grant Snowden citizenship received limited support Thursda...

Iceland parliament member fails to Grant Citizenship to Whistleblower Edward Snowden

Members of Iceland's Pirate Party have introduced a proposal in Parliament that would grant immediate citizenship to National Security Agency Whistleblower Edward Snowden. The government is however not keen on helping Snowden. The bill to grant Snowden citizenship received limited support Thursda...

STOP using Facebook and Google and if you fear US spying

Edward Snowden, a former NSA systems analyst, have revealed the NSA's sweeping data collection of U.S. phone records and some Internet traffic and the programs target foreigners and terrorist suspects mostly overseas.According to the Constitution of all countries, capturing and reading emails or...

NSA can eavesdrop traffic in Real Time, more PRISM slides leaked

The NSA surveillance program PRISM story was started with four leaked slides from the Washington Post weeks before and today they has revealed four more annotated slides about the NSA operation, along with detailing the various levels of scrutiny from the FBI and NSA that happen before, during an...

NSA can eavesdrop traffic in Real Time, more PRISM slides leaked

The NSA surveillance program PRISM story was started with four leaked slides from the Washington Post weeks before and today they has revealed four more annotated slides about the NSA operation, along with detailing the various levels of scrutiny from the FBI and NSA that happen before, during an...

FTC Reclaim Your Name Plan Would Regulate Big Data

Big data is big. So big in fact, Science Daily claimed in May that 90 percent of all the world’s data have been generated in the last two years. In early 2012, the New York Times’ Steve Lohr reported that the total amount of data in the entire world would double every two years from that point on...

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Officials Call NSA PRISM Leaks 'Egregious', Say Program Has Foiled Many Terror Plots

Speaking before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, senior intelligence and law enforcement officials said that the FISA-authorized collection of telephone records and other data revealed by Edward Snowden’s leaks has prevented more than 50 terror attacks against the United States since...

NSA Whistleblower Snowden on PRISM, surveillance, privacy

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said a “continuing litany of lies” from senior U.S. leaders prompted his public uncovering of widespread surveillance of Americans’ phone calls and alleged data sharing between large technology companies and the government. In a two-hour online question-and-answer...

NSA Director Alexander Grilled by Senate Committee

National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander was asked some pointed questions by the Senate Appropriations Committee this afternoon regarding the spy agency’s surveillance of Americans’ phone calls and electronic communication in the name of fighting terrorism. Alexander provided little...

Clappers Says NSA Programs Fully Authorized and Necessary

The top U.S. intelligence official addressed the recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s covert cell-phone and email data collection surveillance programs on Thursday, saying that the programs have been ongoing for years, are fully authorized under U.S. law and that the leaks...

NSA's PRISM spy program, mining data from nine biggest Internet companies

The National Security Agency, part of the U.S. military reportedly has a direct line into the systems of some of the world’s biggest Web and tech companies, i.e Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Skype. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, 6-year-old program which...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-0464

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in IBM Eclipse Help System IEHS 3.4.3 and 3.6.2, as used in IBM SPSS Data Collection 6.0, 6.0.1, and 7.0, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in IBM Eclipse Help System IEHS 3.4.3 and 3.6.2, as used in IBM SPSS Data Collection 6.0, 6.0.1, and 7.0, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL...

CVE-2013-0464

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in IBM Eclipse Help System IEHS 3.4.3 and 3.6.2, as used in IBM SPSS Data Collection 6.0, 6.0.1, and 7.0, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL...

CVE-2013-0464

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in IBM Eclipse Help System IEHS 3.4.3 and 3.6.2, as used in IBM SPSS Data Collection 6.0, 6.0.1, and 7.0, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL...