EFF, Eclectic Group of Organizations Sue NSA Over Data Collection

If politics makes strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, wholesale government surveillance takes that to an entirely new level. The clearest evidence yet of the broad and diverse set of groups opposed to the NSA’s domestic spying programs came Tuesday when the EFF said that is representing a...

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...

How to Collect Guest Processing Log Files

Purpose This article documents how to locate and gather guest-level log files associated with Application-Aware Processing or VM Guest OS File Indexing that occurs with Veeam Backup & Replication VM backup jobs. While investigating issues related to Guest Processing, additional logs must be...

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...

DNI Clapper Says Statement to Congress About NSA Data Collection Was 'Erroneous'

In a highly unusual move, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said Tuesday that he misspoke when he told a Congressional committee in March that the National Security Agency does not assemble dossiers on Americans. Clapper said at the time that the agency does not do so...

FAQ: The NSA Metadata and PRISM Programs

The details of extensive government surveillance of U.S. citizens through collection of cell phone metadata, and email and Internet activities through the PRISM program has raised a lot of questions and caused quite a bit of confusion about what’s actually happening. To help users sort through th...

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...

Stellar Wind Surveillance program under Obama administration

According to secret documents obtained by the Guardian, Obama administration permitted the National Security Agency to surveillance the Emails and Internet metadata of all Americans. This secret warrant less surveillance program, collectively known by the NSA code name Stellar Wind, was launched ...

Stellar Wind Surveillance program under Obama administration

According to secret documents obtained by the Guardian, Obama administration permitted the National Security Agency to surveillance the Emails and Internet metadata of all Americans. This secret warrant less surveillance program, collectively known by the NSA code name Stellar Wind, was launched ...

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...

Alienvault Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) 4.1 - Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Title: Alienvault OSSIM Open Source SIEM 4.1 Multiple SQL Vulnerabilities Date: February 15, 2013 Author: Glafkos Charalambous Vendor: AlienVault Vendor URL: http://www.alienvault.com Reported: February 17, 2013 Timeline: --------- 17 Feb 2013: Vulnerability Reported to AlienVault 19 Feb 2013:...

Alienvault OSSIM SIEM 4.1 SQL Injection

Title: Alienvault OSSIM Open Source SIEM 4.1 Multiple SQL Vulnerabilities Date: February 15, 2013 Author: Glafkos Charalambous Vendor: AlienVault Vendor URL: http://www.alienvault.com Reported: February 17, 2013 Timeline: --------- 17 Feb 2013: Vulnerability Reported to AlienVault 19 Feb 2013:...

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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...

Fedora Update for kdesdk FEDORA-2013-10182

Check for the Version of kdesdk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kdesdk FEDORA-2013-10182 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

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...