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Revealed: What info the FBI can collect with a National Security Letter

After winning an eleven-year legal battle, Nicholas Merrill can finally tell the public how the FBI has secretly construed its authority to issue National Security Letters …

A Jihadi Help Desk assists ISIS terrorists and sympathizers with encryption?

The recent Paris attacks by ISIS have become the perfect pretext for governments to resume their attack on encryption.Even though the New York Times pulled an article blaming …

Cross-device tracking via imperceptible audio beacons threatens user privacy

As consumers use multiple devices through the day, and tracking cookies become increasingly less effective, the advertising industry is looking for new ways to track …

US DOJ admits that Stingrays can be used to intercept call and SMS content

After a battling the US Department of Justice in a court for two and a half years, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has emerged victorious and has …

How can we decide on surveillance and privacy when we can’t see the whole picture?

“The surveillance of communications faces a legitimization crisis,” says James Losey, a fellow with the Open Technology Institute, the technology program of the …

CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials

Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the …

Leaked Hacking Team emails show Saudi Arabia wanted to buy the company

Emails stolen in the Hacking Team breach and leaked online by the still unknown attackers continue to be analyzed, and offer insight into the inner workings and controversial …

Privacy International helps individuals find out if they were spied on by the GCHQ

Continuing with its “Did GCHQ Illegally Spy On You?” campaign, Privacy International has set up a website with instructions for individuals and organizations on how to …

63% in favor of encryption backdoors to respond to national security threats

Vormetric did a survey on how Americans view “backdoor” access by government entities to the encrypted data of private businesses. Ninety-one percent recognized …

UK High Court declares emergency surveillance bill unlawful

On Friday, the UK High Court has declared Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) unlawful.DRIPA is an emergency legislation signed into law in July 2014, and its …

Hacking Team spyware survives on target systems with help of UEFI BIOS rootkit

How did Hacking Team make sure that its Remote Control System (RCS) spyware will remain on targets’ computers even if they reinstall their OS, format their hard drives …

More of Hacking Team’s capabilities and questionable actions revealed

The Hacking Team data leak has shown us with whom the company does business with, and their employees’ and management’s unguarded opinions about various …

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