NSA

German Journalists Urged To Avoid Google And Yahoo

German journalist union advises its members to avoid Google and Yahoo services after NSA snooping allegations

11 years ago

Google And Yahoo Fibre Networks Allegedly Infiltrated By The NSA

The NSA could have harvested information from fibre optic channels connecting Google data centres

11 years ago

NSA Says Website Downtime Was Caused By Botched Update, Not DDoS

Rumours of Anonymous involvement surface on Twitter, but ultimately prove false

11 years ago

NSA Monitored 60 Million Spanish Phone Calls In One Month

Spanish authorities demand explanation after Snowdon documents reveal yet another mass surveillance operation

11 years ago

French Government Outraged At The Extent Of NSA Spying

Prime Minister demands to know why the US spy agency recorded more than 70 million French phone calls in 30…

11 years ago

NSA ‘Hacked Mexican Presidential Communications’

NSA hacked into email accounts of former Mexican president, fresh Snowden leaks show

11 years ago

Yahoo Adding Email Encryption After NSA Address Book Surveillance Revealed

Latest leaks suggest NSA grabbed 444,743 email address books from Yahoo in a single day

11 years ago

Skype Investigated In Luxembourg Over NSA Collaboration

Skype privacy called into question again, following Snowden revelations

11 years ago

Why The Army’s NSA Hates The Navy’s Tor Browser

It really hurts the Army's NSA to come up against the Navy's Tor encryption, says former naval officer Wayne Rash

11 years ago

Power Surges Hit ‘Cursed’ $1.4bn NSA Data Centre

Meltdowns reported at the NSA data storage site whose electricity was cursed by protesters

11 years ago

Privacy Bodies Take GCHQ Snooping Fight To EU Court

Complaints lodged with European Court of Human Rights as the Snowden leaks fallout spreads

11 years ago

Former CTO of NSA: ‘See Everything To Protect The Right Things’

Machine-generated data can enhance cyber security, says Prescott Winter during his keynote at .conf 2013

11 years ago

US Government Shutdown: Good News For Patent Trolls

Trolls can still file bogus patents, but the FTC can't fight them, thanks to the US government shutdown, says Wayne…

11 years ago

Caspar Bowden: I Don’t Trust My Ex-Employer Microsoft After NSA Leaks

Former Microsoft privacy advisor says he isn't convinced by the security offered by the company's tech

11 years ago

Microsoft Discloses 37,000 Law Enforcement Requests For 2013

For the first half of 2013 Microsoft received more than 37,000 data requests from global governments, not including national security…

11 years ago

Big Data Developers Fear Government Snooping

Big data developers are concerned that government agencies are tracking their data, a survey reveals

11 years ago

Dropbox Joins Cloud Giants Calling For NSA Transparency

Dropbox says it needs to show detailed figures on national security requests if it is to be transparent

11 years ago

RSA Warns Customers About NSA Encryption Cracking

RSA is one of the first commercial companies to warn about issues with encryption after revelations about the NSA's meddling…

11 years ago

ICO To Investigate The Impact Of Snowden Revelations On Privacy

Christopher Graham wants to know if the NSA really had access to encrypted bank data

11 years ago

Mayer And Zuckerberg Hit Back Over NSA Surveillance Criticisms

Mayer says execs faced prison if they spoke out about surveillance requests, as Zuckerberg says US government "blew it"

11 years ago

Tech Titans Take Further Action On NSA Spying Transparency

Facebook, Google and Yahoo all lodge legal petitions to let them talk aboue NSA data requests

11 years ago

There Is No Way To Keep Your Data From The NSA

Even encryption won't stop the NSA. Wayne Rash warns of back doors in network adapters, which could siphon off data…

11 years ago

Yahoo Transparency Report Shows Germany’s Personal Data Desire

Yahoo releases its first transparency report and the UK isn't in the top two for data requests for a change

11 years ago

NSA And GCHQ ‘Covertly Plant Vulnerabilities In Internet Encryption’

Intelligence agencies working inside tech companies to insert flaws in modern encryption, according to more of Snowden's leaks

11 years ago

Google And Microsoft To Sue US Government Over Surveillance Transparency

They might not get on usually, but Google and Microsoft have joined forces to fight the US government over transparency…

11 years ago

NSA Illegally Scooped Up Thousands Of US Internet Communications

NSA wasn't honest about a snooping operation that scooped up rafts of US citizens' Internet communications, documents released by the…

11 years ago

Let’s Hope Groklaw Comes Back

The open source law website Groklaw closed over privacy fears. Sean Michael Kerner hopes it comes back

11 years ago

NSA ‘Broke Privacy Rules Almost 3,000 Times In A Year’

Agency breaks rules designed to keep its surveillance in check thousands of times, according to an audit leaked by Edward…

11 years ago

Obama Proposes Broad Surveillance Review

President Obama's proposed changes to the NSA's surveillance regime faces staunch opposition within Congress, while privacy advocates say it does…

11 years ago