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…
Tag: Snooping
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…
Tech behemoths urge President Obama to limit government surveillance
Technology giants including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple, AOL and Yahoo have come together and issued an open letter to US President Barack Obama and the Congress to bring in reforms…
FSF: Microsoft’s security promises are meaningless
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has criticized Microsoft’s recent announcement that Redmond was going to reinforce encryption and increase legal transparency to tackle government snooping. Microsoft likened Government snooping to ‘advanced persistent…
Microsoft to reinforce encryption, increase transparency to tackle government snooping
Microsoft general counsel has likened government snooping efforts to ‘advanced persistent threats’ and has revealed that the company will be encrypting customer data while in transit between its data centres. Highlighting Microsoft…
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…
Microsoft announces message encryption for Office 365
Microsoft has announced its plans of automatically encrypting emails on its Office 365 service by early 2014 through its new feature which it calls Office 365 Message Encryption. Under this new feature…
NSA secretly snooped on Yahoo, Google data centres claims new report
The National Security Agency (NSA) is secretly keeping an eye on Yahoo and Google’s data centers, claims Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor. The security agency’s project to intercept the communication and data…