Practical Anonymity: Hiding in Plain Sight Online
With the recent surveillance scandals tied to the NSA, you can no longer be deemed paranoid or believe yourself to be overreacting if you want to find a way of keeping your …
Hacker hijacks baby monitor camera, terrorizes family
A Houston, Texas couple got a great shock this weekend when they heard a male voice coming from a room where their two year old was sleeping. They heard the man shouting to …
Mega plans to offer encrypted email service
With Lavabit’s closure and Silent Circle’s shutdown of its Silent Mail, the question is where to turn next for a secure email service. Prims-break.org has a few …
Obama defends surveillance programs, promises more oversight
Late last Friday, US president Barack Obama has held a press conference centered mostly on US surveillance programs, the details of which have been leaked, bit by bit, by …
The Pirate Bay releases censorship-thwarting browser
The operators of The Pirate Bay, one of the most (in)famous piracy sites on the Internet, have decided to celebrate the site’s 10th anniversary by releasing a web …
Facebook rolls out Graph Search for English speaking users
Graph Search, the semantic search engine whose Beta version Facebook introduced in March 2013, has been made available for everybody who uses the US English language. The …
Silent Text for Android now on Google Play
Silent Text for Android is now available for download in the Google Play store. It allows you to have secure and encrypted peer-to-peer text conversations on your mobile …
Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
If anyone knows what's really going on in cyberspace and which forces threaten stability and security, it's Ronald Deibert and his colleagues from the well known and reputed …
NSA tips off law enforcement, asks them to keep the practice secret
Just days after the NYT wrote about the NSA denying other federal intelligence agencies access to their surveillance tools comes the disclosure that a US Drug Enforcement …
German Minister calls for punishment of US companies involved in NSA spying
The revelations of mass online spying by US government agencies that involved cooperation from the British and the German governments and intelligence services, as well as the …
Advice on Tor use in wake of Freedom Hosting compromise
In the wake of the discovery that someone has compromised Tor hidden services hosted by Freedom Hosting and injected malicious JavaScript aimed at de-anonymizing specific …
Tor users targeted with spyware following anonymous Web-host shutdown
The news that the alleged owner of Freedom Hosting, the internet host for a great number of Tor hidden services, has been arrested and is accused of distributing and promoting …
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