British spy agency has secret access to Global Internet and telephones

The Britain's spy agency GCHQ is running an online eavesdropping operation that has gained secret access to more than 200 optical fiber cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls. The existence of the program has been disclosed in documents shown to the Guardian by the NSA...

Handling of Encryption, Tor Exposed in Leaked NSA Documents

New top-secret NSA documents released by the Guardian UK newspaper reveal that the United States’ top spy agency can retain encrypted communications for as long as it takes analysts to decrypt the secret messages—even if they’re collected by chance and without a warrant. In addition, the document...

Edward Snowden asylum : Hong Kong, Ecuador and Iceland

Edward Snowden, an American former contractor for the National Security Agency NSA, came forward as the whistle-blower in one of the biggest internal leaks in U.S. intelligence history now seeking asylum According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Snowden would not be given...

Former NSA software developer can Hack Surveillance cameras remotely

A former NSA software developer is saying he has identified how major camera systems used by industrial plants, prisons, banks and the military could be hacked to freeze a frame and would allow hackers to spy on facilities or gain access to sensitive computer networks. Craig Heffner, that there...

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...

NetTraveler Attackers Using PRISM Program as Bait

Never let it be said that attackers don’t keep up with the news. The crew behind the NetTraveler cyberespionage attacks is now using the news about the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program as bait in a new spear-phishing campaign. Security researcher Brandon Dixon of 9bplus came across a malicious...

Former NSA software developer can Hack Surveillance cameras remotely

A former NSA software developer is saying he has identified how major camera systems used by industrial plants, prisons, banks and the military could be hacked to freeze a frame and would allow hackers to spy on facilities or gain access to sensitive computer networks. Craig Heffner, that there...

Apple releases new details on National Security Requests

Apple revealed on monday that it received between 4,000 and 5,000 data requests in six months from U.S. law enforcement for user information and affected accounts. Apple said the most common forms of requests involved investigating robberies and other crimes. Period between December 1, 2012 and M...

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...

Apple releases new details on National Security Requests

Apple revealed on monday that it received between 4,000 and 5,000 data requests in six months from U.S. law enforcement for user information and affected accounts. Apple said the most common forms of requests involved investigating robberies and other crimes. Period between December 1, 2012 and M...

Digital privacy, Internet Surveillance and The PRISM - Enemies of the Internet

If you have followed the startling revelations about the scope of the US government's surveillance efforts, you may have thought you were reading about the end of privacy, and about the Enemies of the Internet. “My computer was arrested before I was.” a perceptive comment by an internet activist...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden claims, NSA has been hacking China since 2009

Edward Snowden, the self confessed NSA Whistleblower of secret surveillance documents, claimed Wednesday that the United States intelligence agents have been hacking computer networks around the world, specially Chinese targets since 2009. Snowden alleged that the Prism program, which collects...

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...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden claims, NSA has been hacking China since 2009

Edward Snowden, the self confessed NSA Whistleblower of secret surveillance documents, claimed Wednesday that the United States intelligence agents have been hacking computer networks around the world, specially Chinese targets since 2009. Snowden alleged that the Prism program, which collects...

Google Requests More Transparency to Dispel PRISM

Google’s chief legal officer addressed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller contesting recent media reports regarding the breadth of the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs and requesting that his company be allowed to publish more national securit...

Suit Filed Against NSA, Obama Over Surveillance Program

A group of people, including a former federal prosecutor and the parents of a Navy SEAL sniper killed in action, have filed a class-action law suit against the National Security Agency, Verizon and President Obama over the NSA’s collection of cell phone data. The suit says the order that enabled...

Edward Snowden, whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance Program leak

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. He's a high school dropout who worked his way into the most secretiv...

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...

Always Outmanned, Always Outgunned

We were warned. Over and over again. Not just by privacy advocates and by security experts and by civil liberties organizations and by the guy on the corner in the tin foil hat shouting about the government intercepting his brain waves. We were warned by some of the very people charged with...

Obama Expands Surveillance to Critical Infrastructure

A little-known policy through which the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security offered prosecutorial immunity to companies that helped the U.S. military monitor Internet traffic on the private networks of defense contractors has reportedly been expanded by Executive Order to inclu...