Leading tech firms Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn, on Monday published their reports which mentioned in detail the government’s snoop-data requests as part of its mass surveillance programme. The tech giants…
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Microsoft announces ‘Brussels Transparency Centre’
Microsoft is up with plans of opening ‘Transparency Centers’ all around the world that would offer government customers an increased ability to review its source code and get confirmation of the fact…
Leading tech companies allowed to disclose more data request information
The Department of Justice, United States in a ruling on Monday announced leading tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn will now be allowed to disclose more information on data…
NSA and GCHQ scraping off user data from Angry Birds, other mobile apps
The National Security Agency along with its other British spy agencies is reportedly keeping a watch on popular smartphone apps such as Angry Birds to gain access of users’ personal data. A…
NSA collected over 200 million text messages globally
US intelligence agency, NSA, as part of its mass surveillance programme, has reportedly collected around 200 million text messages per day from across the globe. Top secret documents from the National Security…
Yahoo Mail defaults to HTTPS
Yahoo is now automatically encrypting connections to its Yahoo Mail service as promised in November last year. All connections to Yahoo Mail servers from clients across the globe will now be encrypted…
NSA wants quantum computer that can break encryption
The National Security Agency (NSA), US is reportedly trying to develop a quantum computer that can break any encryption almost any kind of encryption. According to a report on the Washington Post,…
Apple denies knowledge about NSA iPhone backdoor, says didn’t work with Agency
Apple has officially denied any knowledge or involvement with the NSA on the alleged backdoor including the iPhone. In a statement Apple said that it is not aware of the alleged NSA…
Windows error reports leak data claims security researcher
Windows error and crash logs send out ample of data back to Microsoft in the clear without being encrypted, which cloud allow hackers and government agencies to spy on users. Alex Watson,…
Security researcher protests alleged RSA, NSA ties; cancels talk at RSA conference
Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, has cancelled his talk at the RSA conference in protest of the recent reports linking RSA, NSA and a $10m payoff for inclusion of Dual…
RSA denies NSA $10m ‘backdoor’ links
RSA security has ‘categorically denied’ existence of any contract between the company and National Security Agency (NSA), US stating that the decision of using Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual…
Report: NSA paid RSA $10m to use Dual EC DRBG as preferred random number generator
Newly released documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden A new report reveals that National Security Agency (NSA) allegedly paid $10 million to RSA back in 2006 to get the cryptography pioneer use Dual Elliptic…
Guess what? NSA looking for terrorists inside online games!
Latest set of documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden throws light on how spooks over at NSA and GCHQ infiltrated the virtual worlds of online games like World of Warcraft and Second…
European Commission drafts steps to restore faith in EU-US data flows
The European Commission has outlined draft steps that it believes will pave the way for restoring faith in EU-US data flows following revelations about NSA spying activities under its PRISM programme. European…
Microsoft to beef up encryption to counter NSA surveillance
Microsoft is looking to revamp its internet traffic encryption system as it believes that its global communications system links have been breached by the National Security Agency, reported the Washington Post. Per…