A cyberespionage campaign believed to be based in Russia has been targeting government leaders and institutions for nearly five years, according to researchers with iSight Partners who have examined code used in the attacks.
The issue for law enforcement is, as with all strong crypto, the encryption on the iPhone is secure even from the maker of the device. Apple itself can't access your files, which means the company can't help law enforcement officials access your
We recently met with the courageous whistleblower for over three hours in Moscow for a wide-ranging conversation on surveillance, technology and politics.
Kids across America no longer have to wait until college to plan on being a part of the National Security Agency. They can start preparing for their NSA careers as early as age 13. The NSA is sponsoring cybersecurity camps for middle school
Military technology, and suspicionless mass surveillance, are based on a military mindset— everyone is a possible enemy and no one deserves privacy. Some lawmakers justify this shift by pointing to the "war on drugs" and "the war on terror,
Whether the FBI can use national security letters to compel companies to collect telephone and Internet data of suspects without court approval and place a gag order on companies, preventing them from disclosing the government order.
Twitter Inc sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, intensifying its battle with federal agencies as the Internet industry's self-described champion of free speech seeks the right to reveal the extent of U.S. government surveillance.
Adobe's Digital Editions e-book and PDF reader—an application used by thousands of libraries to give patrons access to electronic lending libraries—actively logs and reports every document readers add to their local "library" along with wha
Documents released by the U.S. government show it views an executive order issued in 1981 as the basis of most of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday.
Police are claiming they need these devices to stop "weapons of mass destruction," though they just use them to spy on people suspected of everyday crimes. US Marshals have been instructing police to lie to courts
U.S. intelligence agents have broad authority to spy on U.S. companies as long as they are "believed to have some relationship with foreign organizations or persons"
An alleged phone call from the NSA prompted public school officials in an Alabama school district to launch a surveillance program to monitor students' online activities, administrators of the Huntsville City School District now admit.
It used to be that if you wanted to join one of the world's most secretive espionage organizations you had to sneak into a foreign embassy, answer a cryptic newspaper ad or show up in a nondescript building in Tel Aviv,...
From 1950 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Ministry for State Security (known as the Stasi) operated one of the most sophisticated and oppressive intelligence networks ever known.
As long as a device is switched on, it could be communicating with at least 3 different masters: the company that built it, the telephone company it connects to, and the developers of any third party applications installed
A secret program to monitor students' online activities began quietly in Huntsville schools, following a phone call from the NSA, school officials say.
In the last few months, US banks have closed down tens of thousands of accounts of "politically incorrect" customers. They include gun sellers, coin dealers, fireworks suppliers, dating services, US citizens living abroad, Muslim students, money