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How did Snowden steal the NSA documents and cover his tracks?

Many things have been unveiled by the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, but the question of how he managed to extract them from the agency’s internal …

Poorly redacted court filing reveals Google contested NSL gag order

A court filing that has been improperly redacted and has recently been made public by the US Department of Justice shows that Google asked a US court to remove the gag order …

Tech companies received millions for PRISM compliance costs

The NSA reimbursed the costs that Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo incurred for having to meet new certification demands following a FISC ruling about the …

Largest DDoS attack ever disrupts China’s Internet

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which maintains the registry for the .cn, China’s country code top-level domain, has notified the public that two …

Leaked info of Federal Reserve employees was stolen during earlier breach

Hacker collective Anonymous has apparently leaked a file which supposedly contains personal details of every employee of the US Federal Reserve Bank – names, job titles, …

NSA spied on UN officials after cracking encryption on UN teleconferencing system

The NSA has actively spied on United Nations’ officials and personnel after managing to compromise the encryption of the organization’s internal video conferencing …

CyanogenMod announces secure phone locating, remote wiping service

The CyanogenMod team has announced a new service that allows users to locate their lost phones or securely wipe their device (including the contents of the SD card) in case it …

Windows 8 shouldn’t be used on government computers, say IT experts

Internal documents of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs perused by a reporter of news outlet Zeit Online show (via Google Translate) that IT professionals working for …

Popular Windows downloader has secret DDoS capability

Unbeknownst to its users and perhaps even to its developers, the popular Windows download manager Orbit Downloader has been outfitted with a DDoS component. The Orbit …

Ruling shows NSA misled the FISC about data collection volume and scope

A (redacted) FISA court opinion released yesterday by the US government has shown that in 2011, a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that for …

Simple Steps to Data Encryption

After last week's Practical Anonymity, here is another book by Peter Loshin that you might need in this new world of ours. It's a practical, hands-on guide about how to use …

Ransomware changes Windows login credentials

So far, ransomware has mostly been spotted targeting US, Canadian, Australian and European users, but its not limited to hitting citizens of these traditionally prosperous …

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