German researchers have revealed that flaws in technology from the 1980s allows hackers anywhere in the world to snoop into your private mobile phone calls and text messages. Security researchers Tobias Engel…
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Vodafone exposes government’s snooping tactics
Vodafone blows the trumpet. Says “We are making a call to end direct access as a means of government agencies obtaining people’s communication data”.
Yahoo: Traffic moving between our data centres is fully encrypted
Yahoo has announced through a blog post that all the traffic between its data centres is now full encrypted, as a part of an ongoing project under which it intends to deploy…
Microsoft changes privacy policy in wake of Hotmail snooping
Microsoft announced changes to its privacy policy on Friday under which it will no longer snoop on customers’ private communications on suspicions of violating intellectual property rights. This move comes a week…
NSA breached Huawei servers claim latest Snowden leaks
Huawei, Chinese telecom and Internet Company, on Sunday condemned the reports, which claim the US National Security Agency to have breached the company’s internal servers. According to a New York Times report,…
Microsoft admits snooping on blogger’s Hotmail account to track leaks; revises policies
Microsoft acknowledged that it had searched an anonymous blogger’s Hotmail account to track software leaks and identify an employee it suspected of leaking information. A former software architect Alex Kibkalo, a Russian…
NSA posed as Facebook to spread surveillance malware
Latest leaks by the whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been disguising itself as a Facebook server in order to gain access to the computers of intelligence…
Edward Snowden urges for broader encryption use at SXSW
Edward Snowden, appearing on screen via Google Hangout routed through seven proxies from his current location in Moscow, Russia, was welcomed with applause at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in…
GCHQ pulled in webcam images of Yahoo users
Britain’s domestic spying agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has intercepted and stored webcam images from millions of Yahoo users, reports the Guardian. According to the secret documents revealed by Edward Snowden…
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…
Vodafone seeks right to disclose Government demands for customer data
Vodafone wants to follow the footsteps of its US counterparts by disclosing data on government requests in all the 25 countries it operates including the UK. Vodafone wants to disclose government requests…
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…
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…