FISC Approves 90-Day Extension of Section 215 Surveillance Authority

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the Section 215 bulk telephone collection program used by the National Security Agency, giving the agency through the end of February to run the program in the absence of legislation establishing a new...

Facebook Says 95 Percent of Notification Email Encrypted

All that’s missing from the organic encrypt the web movement seems to be a hashtag. Otherwise, no one can accuse major web providers of slacking as leading players such as Microsoft and Yahoo, prompted by the Snowden leaks, have made noteworthy leaps in the last 15 months to encrypt everything fr...

WordPress to Deploy SSL on All its Sites by End of 2014

The movement by technology companies to encrypt their respective corners of the Internet continues to gain steam as more and more are enabling SSL and other encryption technologies such as Perfect Forward Secrecy to ward off surveillance and enhance the privacy and security of user data. WordPres...

EFF Encrypt the Web Report Shows Crypto Leaders, Laggards

There’s nothing like a little peer pressure to nudge someone toward doing the right thing. That’s the philosophy behind the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Encrypt the Web Report, which examines the encryption capabilities of 18 leading Internet companies, including large carriers, social...