Chinese army hackers apparently caused more than $100 million worth of damage to U.S. Department of Defense networks, according to NSA research detailed in documents from the Edward Snowden cache. On… Read more »
A newly leaked document courtesy of Edward Snowden revealed that some U.S. officials are encouraging the use of encryption as a means to protect data, which contrasts with British Prime Minister… Read more »
While many Americans were cozying up on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, the National Security Agency was busy posting dozens of quarterly reports detailing incidents where it potentially violated U.S. laws… Read more »
The United States has asked China for help in blocking cyberattacks emanating from North Korea, officials told CNN and the New York Times in the wake of the attack on Sony… Read more »
The German high court has denied an attempt by two of the country’s opposition parties to have NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden visit Berlin to testify before the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament. The… Read more »
Mass online surveillance and censorship of what people see on the web appear to be getting worse, according to the latest Web Index report from Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation… Read more »
The NSA spies on the internal emails and documents of major mobile carriers and their industry body, the GSM Association, according to an article published Thursday by The Intercept. According to… Read more »
Germany’s equivalent to the NSA is able to spy on some German citizens thanks to a loophole in the country’s laws, a government surveillance inquiry learned last week. According to a former… Read more »
So, the typewriter, an icon of a bygone, pre-PC era, is making a comeback among some government workers and young people revisiting the analog tools of the past. Read more »
Nine big tech powers really want the USA Freedom Act — which would curtail some of the government’s data gathering activities — to pass and are pushing the Senate to get… Read more »