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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 …

Reset the Net action aims to thwart online mass surveillance

A group of over 30 Internet companies and civil liberties, environmental and political organizations have announced a global call to action aimed at making mass Internet …

US DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cell phone search

“Kill switches” for mobile phones seems like a great idea for discouraging rampant mobile phone theft going on in the US. As a matter of fact, a bill introduced to …

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 …

Yahoo encrypts traffic between data centers, plans for encrypted Messenger

Newly appointed Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos has announced on Wednesday that the company has begun fully encrypting all the traffic moving between its data centers. The move was …

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 …

Mylar: A system that protects data against server-side snooping

A group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Meteor Development Group have created a system for building Web services that woud protect data …

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 …

NSA records a country’s phone calls, keeps the records for a month

By leveraging a surveillance system dubbed MYSTIC, the US National Security Agency has been recording all phone calls made in a foreign country for a period of 30 days, newly …

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