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U.S. legislators introduce Aaron’s Law

As the Internet’s influence on global commerce, culture and information continues to tread new ground, there is a need to update and reform outdated laws that threaten …

Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced for hacking Swedish companies

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been found guilty of hacking into Swedish IT company Logica and the Nordea bank mainframe and has been sentenced to two years in …

Collected data helped foil 50 terrorist plots, says NSA chief

A number of top government officials have been called to testify at a congressional hearing before U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the topic of NSA …

Google asks secret court permission to publish FISA numbers

Google’s open letter to U.S. Attorney General Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation chief Muller last week obviously produced some results, but the company in …

Bill aims to regulate email privacy in the cloud

Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed and thusly put into effect HB 2268, a bill that legislates that law enforcement agents must get a search warrant to access …

New regulation for ENISA, the EU cybersecurity agency

EU cybersecurity agency ENISA has received a new Regulation, granting it a seven year mandate with an expanded set of duties. ENISA’s Executive Director, Professor Udo …

U.S. tech companies sharing bug info with U.S. govt before releasing fixes

A recent report by Bloomberg’s Michael Riley has revealed that a great many U.S.-based companies are voluntarily sharing sensitive information with the U.S. national …

Guccifer hacks U.S. nuclear security agency chief

The hacker that goes by the online moniker “Guccifer” continues his crusade agains U.S. current and former government officials, and his latest victim is Neile …

British GCHQ spied on G20 delegates to gain advantage in talks

The British GCHQ has monitored computers and intercepted phone calls made by the foreign participants of two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 and provided crucial …

Japan aims to monitor Internet-based communications

After having agreed on a draft of an official cybersecurity strategy earlier this month, Japan’s National Information Security Center (NISC) is looking to establish a …

Why does the public now listen to an U.S. government whistleblower?

This is not the first time that a government whistleblower has come forward and tried to warn the U.S. public about the surveillance overreach of government agencies, but it …

Eight charged for hacking global financial institutions

Eight alleged members of an international cybercrime, money laundering and identity theft conspiracy have been federally charged in New Jersey with a scheme to use information …

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