Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has long held anti-surveillance views. Now she oversees a key surveillance program she once tried to dismantle...

Signal's Founder Hacked a Notorious Phone-Cracking Device

Plus: App Store scams, an anti-surveillance bill, and more of the week’s top security news...

Podcast Discussing WordPress Security, Anti-Surveillance

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the news from the past week, including the out-of-band Microsoft patch, the compromised Joomla and WordPress plug-in attack campaign and the Detekt anti-surveillance tool.​ Download: digitalunderground172.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Microsoft Social Media Accounts

Just a few days after it hacked Microsoft’s Skype blog and Twitter account, the Syrian Electronic Army SEA took to some of the company’s other social media accounts over the weekend, hacking both its @MSFTNews and @XboxSupport Twitter handles along with the company’s official blog. It all started...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Skype Twitter Account With Anti-Surveillance Message

The Syrian Electronic Army took advantage of the relative calm of New Year’s Day to make a loud statement about the NSA’s surveillance program and Microsoft’s alleged participation in it. The group compromised the Twitter account and blog of Microsoft’s Skype service and posted anti-surveillance...

Privacy, Human Rights Groups Form New Anti-Surveillance Coalition

A large group of privacy and digital rights organizations has put together a new effort to urge politicians to curtail the mass surveillance operations that have been exposed in the last few months. The new coalition has developed a set of 13 principles for governments to follow in their...