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Apple drops the “warrant canary” from transparency report

In the wake of the change of Apple’s Privacy Policy, and the encryption technology used in iOS 8 that makes it “not technically feasible” for Apple to …

With iOS 8, Apple won’t be able to unlock phones for the police

With the release of iOS 8, Apple has also updated its Privacy Policy. “The changes were made predominantly to cover new features in iOS 8, or to provide additional …

Video: Reactions of engineers under GCHQ surveillance

Filmmakers Katy Scoggin and Laura Poitras follow reporter Marcel Rosenbach as he informs the staff of a German communications firm that they have been targeted for …

Yahoo’s fight against US govt secret surveillance revealed

Unsealed documents from Yahoo’s challenge to the expansion of US surveillance laws in 2007 and 2008 have shown how the company was ultimately made to comply to the US …

Cellphone surveillance systems can track almost anybody

The surveillance tech industry is booming, and we should be worried about it. Poorly regulated and exceedingly secretive, the companies that create surveillance solutions for …

NSA’s metadata search engine used by US, foreign agencies

The NSA has secretly built a “Google-like” search engine to be used by various US government agencies and intelligence agencies of the Five Eyes countries to sift …

Competition to crack a virtual terrorist HDD, break into CCTV systems

Sophos is calling amateur security talent to turn sleuth and to investigate confiscated crime scene computer systems belonging to a cyber terrorist group as part of the latest …

Russian government offers money for Tor-cracking tech

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) has published a tender offering $111,000 to any Russian company or organization that can provide technology that can …

What influences corporate security strategies?

Sixty eight percent of businesses stated that the NSA breach by Edward Snowden and the number of PoS system breaches in the past year were the most impactful in terms of …

Metadata-hiding Dark Mail protocol soon to be reality

At the Hackers on Planet Earth X (HOPE X) conference held this weekend in New York, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden called for hackers, coders and developers to “help …

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 …

Cops must get a warrant before looking through cellphone content

The nine judges of the US Supreme Court have unanimously ruled that law enforcement officers can’t search the contents of an arrested individual’s cell phone(s) …

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