Outgoing NSA director: ‘It’s not our mission’ to spy on everyone in the world
The National Security Agency (NSA) will send its recommendations for where to store telephone metadata records to President Obama later this week, the outgoing NSA …
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Change your Kickstarter password right now
Kickstarter on Saturday acknowledged a hack that occurred on Wednesday night, advising users to immediately change the passwords of their accounts. According to the company, …
How did Snowden swipe all those NSA documents? The answer is far less thrilling than you think
To some, he’s a hero. To others, a treasonous saboteur. But of one thing, there is no doubt: former NSA contractor Edward Snowden changed the …
Largest DDoS attack ever nails company that protects against DDoS attacks
A company that is supposed to protect against DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks just suffered what appears to be the largest one ever. According to IT …
Do you have a private Instagram account? Your photos may have been exposed
If the events of the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that nothing is safe if it involves the Internet. “Private” is just …
Security expert calls out NBC’s whiny report on Sochi Olympics hacking
A security expert is calling “fraudulent” a recent NBC News story about computer hacking at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, CNET reports, after discovering certain inconsistencies …
Here’s how the Target hackers pulled off their incredible heist
More details regarding the massive hack that hit Target late last year have been uncovered, revealing how attackers gained access to the retailer’s systems. After …
Former NSA chief explains how Snowden gained high-level access
In an interview on Tuesday with the Wall Street Journal, former NSA chief and Booz Allen Vice Chairman Mike McConnell explained how Edward Snowden gained …
Target moves quickly to prevent future hacks
Target’s chief financial officer and executive vice president John Mulligan authored an opinion piece in The Hill on Monday, in which he revealed the company …
Want to email people without the FBI reading it? Try Safe-mail
Last week, we learned that the FBI has a copy of the entire TorMail database. Naturally, people who used the secure e-mail service began looking …
Canada may be better at spying than you think
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden released more documents that reveal remote spying operations that include bulk data collection and user tracking, this time concerning the …
How to tell if your Gmail account was hacked
The recent breach of Yahoo’s Yahoo Mail servers is the latest in a string of high-profile hacks that have taken center stage in the tech …
Hack alert: Change your Yahoo Mail password right now
Yahoo on Thursday announced yet another hacking attempt, advising Yahoo Mail users to change their passwords if prompted to do so. “Security attacks are unfortunately …
Target hack not possible without some old-school theft
The massive hack that hit Target in the weeks before Christmas 2013 wouldn’t have been possible without someone actually stealing the credentials of a vendor, …
PayPal says it didn’t do it, GoDaddy partially admits helping hacker
After an app developer revealed how a hacker managed to get access to his web properties and hold them for ransom by exploiting some potential …
Study shows why we should fear mobile malware
Mobile malware has gone from an afterthought to a serious issue for smartphone and tablet users seemingly overnight. More savvy consumers have known about the …
PayPal and GoDaddy will hand your data over to just about anyone
An app developer who had a rare Twitter username revealed he has been hacked by a person that wanted to own the @N handle at …
Latest encryption trick to thwart hackers is as sweet as Honey
It seems like every other week another high-profile company’s servers are hacked. Last November, for example, Adobe suffered a security breach and as many as …
There may be a ‘Squeaky Dolphin’ permanently snooping on your YouTube, Facebook habits
More documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden detail another bulk data collection spying initiative that consists of monitoring services like Facebook and Google’s YouTube …
Rovio denies selling out Angry Birds players to NSA
Although we’ve come to expect the National Security Agency to spy on Internet users by hacking into Microsoft, Google and Facebook’s data centers, even the …
British spies can remotely ‘Smurf’ your iPhone and Android phone
Unsurprisingly, it’s not just the NSA that can hack iPhones and other mobile devices in order to retrieve data that may be relevant to an …
Terrifying new smartphone malware tracks your swipes to steal your PIN
Smartphone malware is on the rise and with 99% of known malware targeting Google’s Android platform — which is also the most popular mobile platform …
WTF of the week: The NSA might be watching us through Angry Birds
Is nothing sacred to the international spy community? According to Pro Publica, leaked British intellgence documents reveal that spy agencies around the world are able to …
FBI: More Target-like malware attacks are coming
In a confidential report for retailers that was seen by Reuters, the FBI is warning companies to prepare for Target-like malware attacks in the future, …
Hackers concoct most devious way yet to deliver Android malware
Phil Schiller recently tweeted a link to a report that said 99% of all mobile malware is directed at Android. Usually the malware comes through …
Microsoft’s bold plan to beat the NSA
Microsoft is tired of waiting for the United States government to rein in the National Security Agency so it’s taking matters into its own hands. …
Watchdog says NSA phone spying program is illegal and should end
A report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) that should be released on Thursday says that the NSA’s phone spying program is …
A look inside the complex logistics behind the Target hacks
Even though police have arrested two people in Texas who have used stolen Target credit card information, the hackers behind the breach will likely never …
Google chairman Eric Schmidt is furious about NSA tapping
Google’s executive chairman says that the company was outraged to learn that the National Security Agency had been tapping the company’s servers, and he has …
Developer uncovers the scariest Chrome exploit yet
In case you haven’t already figured it out, you probably shouldn’t give permission for websites to flip on your computer’s microphone unless you really trust …
