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Privacy case makes your phone untrackable

With all the recent revelations about NSA’s long cyber reach and the (in)voluntary involvement of big Internet companies and US telecoms in its many surveillance …

The TAO of NSA

In last week’s reports, it has been pointed out that NSA has its own hacking unit called Tailored Access Operations (TAO), and that its capabilities have been tapped for …

Microsoft and Google continue to press US government over transparency

Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, announced that Google and Microsoft are tired of waiting for the US government to allow them to publish sufficient data relating …

Detailed US intelligence community’s $52.6 billion budget leaked

Leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and analyzed by The Washington Post reporters, the summary of the $52.6 billion US National Intelligence Program budget for the 2013 …

Facebook spamming is a hugely lucrative business

Italian researchers that have previously unearthed the big business behind fake Twitter followers have now calculated that Facebook spammers are raking in as much as $200m …

Tor usage more than doubles

Roger Dingledine, one of the original developers of Tor and current director of the Tor Project, has noted on the tor-talk mailing list that the number of Tor clients running …

Fake “Secure Document” notice will compromise your email account

Phishers have lately shown a penchant for using the “secure / confidential document / message” lure for making users share their login credentials. The latest …

New protection mechanism prevents mobile cross-app content stealing

A group of researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft Research have recently published a paper detailing the risk of cross-origin attacks on two of the most popular …

Researchers detail attacks for compromising Dropbox user accounts

Dropbox, the popular file hosting service that has managed to amass over 100 million users in the five years since it was launched, has had its fair share of problems: …

NYT, Twitter, HuffPo sites disrupted by Syrian hacker group

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army have managed to hijack, deface and / or make unavailable the websites of The New York Times, Huffington Post UK and one of Twitter …

G-20 themed emails deliver spying malware to EU, Canadian officials

The topic of the G-20 summit that is scheduled to be held in Russia next month is being misused by multiple cyber espionage groups some of which have been tracked to China, …

Open source encrypted email service reaches crowdfounding goal

Mailpile, the open-source web-mail client with user-friendly encryption whose developers have been asking for funding on Indiegogo, has surpassed its $100,000 goal three weeks …

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