Germany cancels Verizon’s government contract due to spying fears
Verizon will no longer provide internet services to a number of German government departments, as their contract has been cancelled as part of a restructuration of the federal …
Replicating NSA’s gadgets using open source
One peek at the leaked pages of NSA’s ANT catalog made wireless security researcher Michael Ossmann’s mind start spinning. “Could we – could I – …
NSA collects photos to feed facial recognition programs
The NSA has been collecting photos of people’s faces at the tune of 55,000 images every day, and has been feeding the images into its facial recognition programs, James …
China reacts to military hackers’ indictment, accuses US of hypocrisy
Yesterday, for the first time ever, the US Justice Department filed criminal charges against known state actors for hacking, as it accused five Chinese military hackers of …
NSA allegedly puts backdoors on American-made network devices
Glenn Greenwald’s new book titled No Place to Hide is out today. Aside from telling the story of how he worked with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and journalist Laura …
NIST drops NSA-backed algorithm from encryption recommendations
“Following a public comment period and review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has removed a cryptographic algorithm from its draft guidance on …
NSA subverted EU privacy laws, spied on human rights orgs
In a testimony delivered by video-link from Moscow, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed to EU parliamentarians that the US NSA is actively spying on human rights …
NSA and GCHQ spied on German satcomms, world governments’ leaders
Another week, another explosive revelation coming from Edward Snowden’s archive of NSA documents. This time they reveal the widespread compromise of several German …
Additional NSA-backed code found in RSA crypto products
A group of professors and researchers from several universities in the US and the Netherlands have tested the exploitability of various implementations of the infamous …
NSA compromised Huawei’s servers, spied on its executives
For years, the US government has been very vocal about its distrust of Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei, pointedly blocking acquisitions and takeovers that would allow …
NSA targets sys admins to breach computer networks
A newly analyzed document from Edward Snowden’s trove show that the NSA collects personal and account information on system administrators and uses it to compromise …
US tech firms knew about and assisted with PRISM data collection
In a testimony before the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the NSA general council Rajesh De and his colleague stated on Wednesday that the tech companies that …
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