The NSA wants to eliminate malware once and for all, no matter the cost
Well over a year after the Snowden leaks changed the way we think of security in the United States, the man still has plenty of …
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Want to make $1 million per month? Retire from the NSA
Former NSA director Keith Alexander will charge companies up to $1 million a month to keep them safe from online hackers, Foreign Policy reports. Apparently …
These are the absurd names British intelligence spies have to remember to spy on you
In case you didn’t know it by now, spy agencies are really good – and hopefully effective – at spying on people, including both actual valid …
Every crazy NSA revelation in one giant chart
The United States National Security Agency has had a rough year. It all began when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden infiltrated the agency’s systems and stole …
NSA chief says terrorists are changing their behavior thanks to Snowden leaks
More than a year ago, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden began leaking thousands of confidential documents that he stole while working for the National Security Agency. The …
Why Lavabit shut down: Founder explains 38 days of legal hell
After Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks from last year, rumors circulated that Snowden used Lavabit, which at the time was a hugely popular secure email service. …
NSA reportedly implants backdoors into U.S.-made servers and routers for foreign markets
A new report from The Guardian reveals that NSA has allegedly been tampering with U.S.-made electronic equipment including servers, routers and other network devices that …
Why the NSA might not say anything about the next ‘Heartbleed’
Secretive agencies like the National Security Agency will not hurry to disclose future Heartbleed-like security issues, or at least they won’t always be interested in …
The NSA has its own suggestions for dealing with Heartbleed
The National Security Agency has already denied reports that claimed it had been aware of the Heartbleed security threat and used it in its advantage, …
NSA reportedly exploited Heartbleed for years, leaving us all at risk
The odds are good that no one will be surprised to learn that the National Security Agency knew about the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability that affected …
New Captain America movie with clear anti-NSA message is a massive hit abroad
When the original Captain America movie came out, many wondered how well it would play in massive new Asian markets like China. Would a superhero …
Video: Here’s how Google handles 50,000 government requests in a year
In every transparency report from Google since 2009, the number of requests from the government has increased at a steady pace, but 2013 represents the largest …
Obama unveils major changes to NSA phone record collection program
President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled major changes to the “spying” program that previously saw the National Security Agency collect and store millions of phone …
NSA says tech giants knew about its spying efforts
The NSA on Wednesday said “unequivocally” that U.S. tech giants were “fully aware” of the agency’s data collecting operations, The Guardian reports, even though tech …
NSA can record a nation’s ‘every single’ phone call and keep them for a month
The National Security Agency is able to collect a nation’s “every single” phone call and store the voice recordings for a month, according to a new …
NSA denies report that it has infected millions of computers with malware
News broke earlier this week alleging that the National Security Agency “has infected millions of computers around the world with malware.” The report cited newly available …
NSA’s plan to inject malware into ‘millions’ of computers revealed
Even if you make use of Snowden’s tips for remaining anonymous online, there might not be much you can do to escape the NSA’s latest …
3 tips for keeping everything you do online a secret
For the past several months, infamous NSA leaker Edward Snowden has confounded the United States government’s attempts to track him online and stop him from …
Wikileaks founder Assange vows more damaging leaks on the way
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, criticized the NSA and hinted at future leaks in a Skype interview at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. Assange, …
NSA helped UK spy agency collect millions of pics from Yahoo web chats
We’ve read a lot of shocking things about the National Security Agency’s spying practices but this new revelation might be the most shocking one yet. …
Report claims NSA spied on WikiLeaks and all of its readers
New documents leaked by former NSA employee turned whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the NSA and GCHQ consistently spied on WikiLeaks in the past years, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Government reaches deal with Microsoft, Google on data requests
Microsoft and Google, joined by Facebook, Apple and other tech firms, have been fighting for months to ensure that the public is given a more …
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 …
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 …
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 …
