Ex-NSA chief defends end-to-end encryption, says ‘backdoors’ will make us less secure
No one will ever accuse the National Security Agency of being champions of privacy. But General Michael Hayden, a former Director of the NSA, does see some …
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Bombshell report details dozens of secret devices U.S. Government uses to track cellphones
Though Edward Snowden’s first revelations regarding NSA surveillance surfaced more than two years ago, government surveillance remains a hot-button and controversial topic because we’re still …
The NSA will spy on you for reading this article
Are you looking for ways to protect your privacy while browsing the web? Are you trying to learn how to use Tor, the browser that anonymizes …
Loophole lets the NSA spy on your email even though it’s not allowed to anymore
The NSA and other Western spy agencies came under intense scrutiny following the massive Snowden leaks that revealed their tremendous powers when it comes to collecting …
Selling us safety: The huge PR problem spy agencies have on their hands
The horrendous November 13th attacks on Paris are exactly what intelligence agencies have told us all along: Something bad will happen because they can’t conduct …
How the NSA broke encryption on trillions of secure connections
Some Edward Snowden leaks have revealed that the NSA and other intelligence agencies can break encryption barriers for mass surveillance purposes. It has been theorized …
Jeb’s plan to woo Silicon Valley: Gut net neutrality, kill encryption, bulk up NSA
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush — or just “Jeb!” as he’s called in his campaign signs — probably won’t win the endorsement of the Electronic Frontier …
Irony: NSA worried hackers with super computers might break current encryption standards
The National Security Agency (NSA) has a bunch of sophisticated tools at its disposal to conduct massive data collection operations all in the name of …
Huge phone network security flaw lets anyone bug calls and text messages
Spy agencies like the NSA and many others aren’t the only ones able to bug your calls and text messages, a new investigation shows. It …
How AT&T helped the NSA spy on Internet traffic
For decades, AT&T actively helped the NSA engage in widespread surveillance on both phone calls and Internet traffic. Citing documents made available by former NSA employee …
Leaked NSA slides: Chinese hackers have been wreaking havoc on corporate America
NBC News this week obtained leaked slides from a February 2014 NSA presentation which highlight in specific detail the extent to which China has successfully …
‘Hacking Team’ Hack Proves Governments Can Spy On Jailbroken iPhones
Forget about voiding your warranty and potentially rendering your iPhone unusable if something goes wrong, Apple fans now have another reason to avoid jailbreaking their …
How the NSA Spied on Antivirus Companies to Make Undetectable Malware
Russian antivirus company Kaspersky revealed recently that it was the target of hackers behind the Stuxnet and Duqu worms last year. The hackers have been attacking the …
The Senate just crippled the NSA’s spying program
Intelligence agencies in the U.S. won’t be able to use some of their highly sophisticated spying programs on Americans as easily as before, as certain portions of …
The NSA came up with a brilliantly sneaky way to hack your Android phone
Once again, we have to tip our cap in grudging admiration for the lengths the National Security Administration will go to hack into our mobile …
John Oliver interviewed Edward Snowden on Last Week Tonight – watch it here
Edward Snowden was behind one of the biggest leaks of classified information in modern history. The only problem is that most of the information that …
EU: Don’t use Facebook if you’re worried about NSA snooping
The many Snowden revelations, which have detailed the advanced spying and mass data collection operations conducted by some of the world’s most important agencies including the …
How Cisco customers avoid NSA tampering
While the NSA certainly has the technical chops to eavesdrop, monitor, and intercept all types of electronic communications, they’re also not afraid to employ more …
Massive SIM card hack might have been too sophisticated to be caught in time
A new Snowden leak a few days ago revealed that the NSA and GCHQ conducted a complex hack operation that focused on obtaining the secure encryption …
Gemalto confirms hack, but denies massive SIM keys theft
Following reports that claimed the NSA and GCHQ may have targeted Gemalto, one of the main phone SIM cards makers, the company revealed that such attacks …
A truly hack-proof smartphone may finally be unveiled next week
About 18 months ago, reports indicating that the NSA spied on the private communications of Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff began to surface. Now comes word via …
Why the NSA SIM hack might be far more serious than you think
A few days ago, a report revealed that spy agencies including the NSA and GCHQ, managed to bypass the security of SIM card manufacturer Gemalto …
Bombshell report reveals the NSA has stolen encryption keys for millions of SIM cards
In a bombshell report published on Thursday, Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley of The Intercept detail how the NSA and British Intelligence operatives managed to …
One of NSA’s most precious spying tools was just uncovered
Spy agencies have some very smart tools at their disposal for their surveillance and data gathering operations, many leaks have revealed so far, but Russian …
How to find out if the NSA and GCHQ spied on you
Following the many Snowden leaks that revealed some of the advanced mass data collection practices employed by spy agencies including the NSA and GCHQ, a …
This privacy-protecting app cocktail is the NSA’s worst nightmare
Protecting your privacy online is not an easy thing to do, especially when it comes to the prying eyes of the NSA and other spy agencies …
These are the encryption services the NSA can’t crack
The ripples from the massive National Security Agency leak orchestrated by former contract worker Edward Snowden continue to be felt even now. While most of the …
Of course the NSA spied on people who were working on better phone encryption
The NSA’s far-reaching powers have been further detailed in an extensive report from The Intercept, which reveals that the agency has conducted an advanced spying operation …
Massive surveillance operations possible with explicit help from telecom companies
U.S. and U.K. spy agencies including the NSA and GCHQ, respectively, have performed a variety of sophisticated spy operations, collecting massive amounts of personal data, …
Survey: Internet users afraid of Google handling personal data more than the NSA
In light of the many detailed reports based on Edward Snowden’s leaks that revealed the sophisticated technologies the NSA and other spying agencies can employ …
