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Brazil determined to stop NSA spying
Perhaps no country in the world has been as vocal about doing something about NSA’s global Internet surveillance reach as Brazil. As one of the fastest-growing major …
Could the EU cyber security directive cost companies billions?
Many of the world’s largest enterprises are not prepared for the new European Union Directive on cyber security, which states that organizations that do not have …
MEPs hear US privacy experts, whistleblowers and Snowden statement
The possibility of suspending EU-US trade talks, the idea of creating international standards of privacy protection and the need for genuine parliamentary oversight of …
NSA creates US citizens’ profiles by collecting metadata, public and commercial data
In 2010, NSA analysts were instructed to disregard previous restrictions when it came to analyzing phone call and email logs belonging to Americans that had connections to …
UK to create new cyber defence force
Defence secretary Philip Hammond has announced that the UK is to create a new cyber unit and speak full cyber warfare competency including both offensive and defensive …
US intelligence heads speak for FISA preservation
Two opposite forces have clashed in Thursday’s open hearing by the US Senate Intelligence Committee on the subject of potential legislative changes to the Foreign …
NSA letter reveals details of NSA analysts spying on their lovers
Details of twelve recorded cases since 2003 in which analysts misused US intelligence agencies’ surveillance capabilities to spy on their love interest or other not …
Legislation aims to end bulk collection of phone records
In order to restore the constitutional liberties that have been eroded by invasive surveillance and end secret interpretations of the law that vastly exceed the intent of …
US government security background checks fumbled by investigators
Edward Snowden’s successful exfiltration of confidential NSA documents has proved that the background checks executed for government personnel in order to receive the …
MEPs raise suspension of EU-US bank data deal
MEPs raised the possibility of suspending or even terminating the EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP), during the discussion on Tuesday about the NSA’s …
Federal cyber security pros lack confidence in FISMA
A report by MeriTalk and NetApp examines the state of cyber security at Federal agencies and looks at whether the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is …
HP helps government agencies protect information
HP announced HP Continuous Monitoring, designed to identify and report IT security vulnerabilities in real time. The solution provides U.S. government agencies with an …