EU politicians want to suspend banking data-sharing program
Following the claims that the NSA has spied on the Belgian-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) – the organization that provides the …
With crypto being insecure, whom do you trust?
Last week’s revelation that the NSA has for years now concentrated on subverting the encryption that protects commerce and banking transactions, sensitive data, e-mails, …
NSA’s quest to subvert encryption, install backdoors
Journalists from the NYT and ProPublica have joined efforts and have published the most explosive article to date dealing with revelations about NSA spying efforts. Backed by …
NSA announces new schools for cyber initiative
Four new schools have been selected for the National Security Agency’s National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program, which was designed to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
NSA surveillance system can listen to 75% of US Internet traffic
Another day, another set of revelations about NSA’s Internet surveillance capabilities and practices. Current and former government officials that (predictably) …
UK agents detain Greenwald’s partner, destroy The Guardian’s hard drives
It has been an eventful weekend for The Guardian newspaper, its reporter Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda, as the British police held the latter and questioned …
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