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Russia handed malware-laden devices to G20 delegates?
At the G20 summit held near St. Petersburg in September, attending delegates representing the 20 most powerful nations in the world have been handed gifts that included …
Obama orders NSA to stop spying on UN diplomats
There is nothing wrong with spying on foreign national leaders, even when they are allies, said NSA head General Keith Alexander and NI director James Clapper at a hearing …
US legislators introduce bill to end dragnet phone data collection
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, chairman of the Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee in the House, introduced on Tuesday a …
UK man indicted for hacking US govt networks, stealing confidential data
The New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged an alleged hacker in the United Kingdom with breaching thousands of computer systems in the United States and elsewhere …
US allies demand explanations about NSA surveillance
Following Le Monde’s Monday report on NSA’s systematic gathering of phone call data of French citizens and the recording of certain calls and text messages has …
Lavabit users allowed to access accounts and retrieve data
Lavabit’s Ladar Levison has announced that the users of his recently closed down email service will be able to briefly access their accounts so that they can retrieve …
Police requests DNS provider to take down criminal site, CEO asks for court order
Mark Jeftovic, the CEO of Toronto-based domain registrar and managed DNS provider EasyDNS, has published a (second) letter his company received from UK’s Police …
Brazil determined to stop NSA spying
Perhaps no country in the world has been as vocal about doing something about NSA’s global Internet surveillance reach as Brazil. As one of the fastest-growing major …
Could the EU cyber security directive cost companies billions?
Many of the world’s largest enterprises are not prepared for the new European Union Directive on cyber security, which states that organizations that do not have …
MEPs hear US privacy experts, whistleblowers and Snowden statement
The possibility of suspending EU-US trade talks, the idea of creating international standards of privacy protection and the need for genuine parliamentary oversight of …
NSA creates US citizens’ profiles by collecting metadata, public and commercial data
In 2010, NSA analysts were instructed to disregard previous restrictions when it came to analyzing phone call and email logs belonging to Americans that had connections to …
UK to create new cyber defence force
Defence secretary Philip Hammond has announced that the UK is to create a new cyber unit and speak full cyber warfare competency including both offensive and defensive …
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