Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg personally called US President Barack Obama on Wednesday to express frustration over the US government’s surveillance programs. Zuckerberg spoke with the president following the most recent leaks of…
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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…
Tech giants reveal government data request details
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…