Thoughts on Cloud Security

Recently I've been reading about cloud security and security with respect to DevOps. I'll say more about the excellent book I'm reading, but I had a moment of déjà vu during one section. The book described how cloud security is a big change from enterprise security because it relies less on...

Snowden’s Attorney Urges Canada to Take in Whistleblower Helpers (Part Two)

In our second part of Threatpost’s interview of lawyer Robert Tibbo, who represented former N.S.A. contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden, Tibbo describes the present day systematic harassment of families that sheltered Snowden while he was in Hong Kong in 2013. Tibbo also describes how h...

‘Snowden Refugee’ Has No Regrets for Helping Whistleblower

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – Refugee families located in Hong Kong that helped shelter Edward Snowden in 2013 are under crushing pressure to cooperate with local authorities or face deportation to their countries of origin, where they face an uncertain fate. However, despite years of what their lawyer call...

Julian Assange will no longer be the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks

Julian Assange, the founder of popular whistleblower website WikiLeaks, is stepping down from the position of editor-in-chief of the organisation under "extraordinary circumstances." Assange, the 47-year-old Australian hacker, founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and has since made many high-profile leaks,...

NSA Leaker 'Reality Winner' Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison

A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Reality Winner, a 26-year-old Georgia woman who held a top-secret...

GlobaLeaks - The Open-Source Whistleblowing Software

GlobaLeaks is open-source / free software intended to enable secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiatives developed by the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights. For the user manual refer to the GlobaLeaks's User Manual. For the developer documentation refer to the GlobaLeaks...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – What's Happened So Far

Top Story— Facebook has just lost over $60 billion in market value over the past two days—that's more than Tesla's entire market capitalisation and almost three times that of Snapchat. Facebook shares plunge over revelations that personal data of 50 million users was obtained and misused by Briti...

Social media accounts of Cambridge Analytica whistleblower suspended

By Waqas Earlier this week, it was reported that in 2015 the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Social media accounts of Cambridge Analytica whistleblower suspended...

Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37

Adrian Lamo, the hacker who tipped off the FBI about Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning, dies at the age of 37, according to a Facebook post by his father Mario Lamo-Jiménez. "With great sadness and a broken heart I have to let know all of Adrian's friends and acquaintances that he is dead. ...

WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Teams Up With Tech to Collect Ideas For Malware Development

As part of its ongoing Vault 7 leaks, the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks today revealed about a CIA contractor responsible for analysing advanced malware and hacking techniques being used in the wild by cyber criminals. According to the documents leaked by WikiLeaks, Raytheon Blackbird...

Anonymous Hacktivist 'Barrett Brown' Released From Prison

Barrett Brown, a journalist, formerly served as an unofficial spokesman for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, finally walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after serving more than four years behind bars. The Dallas-born investigative journalist was arrested in 2012 from his home while he...

WikiLeaks Promises to Publish Leaks on US Election, Arms Trade and Google

Wikileaks completed its 10 years today, and within this timespan, the whistleblower site has published over 10 million documents, and there’s more to come. In the name of celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Wikileaks promises to leak documents pertaining to Google, United States presidential...

Snowden Slammed by House Committee Report

Edward Snowden’s hopes of a presidential pardon were dimmed Thursday when a House Committee report slammed the former U.S. defense contractor saying he has done “tremendous damage” to United States national security. That conclusion was part of a 36-page report PDF released Thursday by the House...

Photo reveals even Zuckerberg tapes his Webcam and Microphone for Privacy

What do you do to protect your 'Privacy' and keep yourself safe from potential hackers? Well, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just need a bit of tape to cover his laptop webcam and mic jack in order to protect his privacy. Yes, Zuck also does the same as the FBI Director James Comey. Zuckerberg post...

British Intelligence is Legally Allowed to Hack Anyone, Court Says

Hacking of computers, smartphones and networks in the United Kingdom or abroad by the Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ is LEGAL, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal IPT ruled. So, the UK is giving clean chit to its intelligence agency to spy on its people as well as people living...

Breaking: Edward Snowden Joins Twitter & Only Follows ‘NSA’

Whistleblower Edward Snowden just joined Twitter, and his first tweet seems to be directed at the US National Security Agency NSA. Yes, the world's most popular whistleblower and data privacy advocate has finally joined Twitter just two hours ago, and his first tweet came, “Can you hear me now?”...

Rights Groups Call for More Change Two Years After Snowden Revelations Began

It’s been two years now since the first stories about NSA surveillance capabilities began to appear, and the environment has shifted dramatically in that time. Awareness of and resistance to mass surveillance has increased greatly, but the changes to policy and laws that many observers had hoped...

Open Source Whistleblower Platform: SecureDrop

SecureDrop an open source whistleblower submission system SecureDrop is an open-source software platform for secure communication between journalists and sources whistleblowers.It was originally designed and developed by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen under the name DeadDrop. After Aaron Swartz’s...

CIA Has Been Hacking iPhone and iPad Encryption Security

Security researchers at the Central Intelligence Agency CIA have worked for almost a decade to target security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple devices in order to break the system. Citing the top-secret documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept blog reporte...

Samsung To Pay $2.3 Million Fine for Deceiving the U.S. Government

The United States division of Samsung has been charged with deceiving the US government into believing that several of its products met the necessary US government policies, resulting in the US government buying unauthorised Chinese-made electronics. The South Korean electronics giant has agreed ...