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BitTorrent Bashes NSA In Stunning Billboard Campaign

If you live in New York or San Francisco, you will know the importance of its billboards and strange messages mentioned on them. Last week, the popular internet protocol BitTorrent used the billboards to bash the United State’s National Security Agency (NSA) for spying over people all over the globe.  The important point is that […]

Terrorists Love Using Gmail, says Former CIA and NSA Director

Michael Hayden who is the former director of CIA and NSA gave a speech at the educational forum at Saint John’s Episcopal Church this Sunday.  The topic of discussions at this forum for adult education was the clash between liberty and security. During his speech, he came up with a surprising statement that terrorists all […]

Brazilian President Rousseff cancels state visit to US over NSA’s spying

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has decided to cancel her visit to the U.S. scheduled for October 23 against the NSA’s spying over Brazilian government. U.S. President Barack Obama called the Brazilian president yesterday in a failed attempt to avoid the cancellation of the Brazilian state visit next month. The cancellation decision was also finalize on […]

Snowden Leaks: Top-secret document shows NSA shares Personal Details of U.S citizens with Israel

The National Security Agency (NSA) shares first hand intelligence with Israel without omitting personal details of U.S citizens, shows top-secret document handing over by Edward Snowden to The Guardian Newspaper. Document shows that US government handed over intercepted communications likely to contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. The details are shared under an […]

Israeli company ‘Verint’ to win Indian mass cyber surveillance contract

An Israeli based internet surveillance company ‘Verint Systems‘ is all set to win a contract from Department of Telecommunications, government of India to assist it with encrypted internet communications services such as Skype, Hotmail, Gmail and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry (RIM) amid growing cyber security concerns in the country. EconomicTimes reports that a team of Verint  Systems met Indian communications minister Kapil Sibal in […]

Turkey frees bird accused of spying for Israel

X-ray result of bird detained for spying Last week Turkish authorities had captured a bird suspecting it was spying for Israel, but later freed it when X-ray results showed that no surveillance equipment was embedded with it. Reuters reported that kestrel bird was found with a metal ring on its foot with words like “24311 Tel Avivunia Israel” […]

The NSA Can Track Your Cell Phones Even When Turned Off

If you thought NSA was only spying over your online activities, then add this one to your list because NSA has full capability of tracking your cell phone even when its switched off. Other then tracking your cell phone, the NSA’s cellphone-surveillance technology isn’t just used to listen in on conversations and map social networks—it’s […]

BlackBerry allows Indian government a direct access to emails and Chats

Government agencies in India are now allowed to access your blackberry devices directly, allowing them to track conversations, emails and attachments sent between Blackberry devices on a real time basis. Times of India reports that according to a leaked government document, government agencies will be able to track and read every typed word on Blackberry […]

Microsoft allowed NSA to Spy on Skype and Outlook

Microsoft has collaborated extensively with the intelligence services of the United States to allow users’ communications details. The company even helped the NSA (National Security Agency) to break their own encryption system, according to documents cited Wednesday in the British newspaper “Guardian”. Data leaked by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of cooperation between companies in […]

Russia uses typewriters to prevent Spying by US

The Russian newspaper “Izvestia” reported on Thursday that the Federal Protective Service of the country bought 20 typewriters to prevent sensitive information from leaking via electronic means. The report said the measure was taken after the revelation of the espionage scheme of the United States in June. Washington is responsible for monitoring information from governments, the […]

New Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

The NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden who is in Moscow these days has made a new statement which has been published by Wikileaks.  One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of […]

How the PRISM Surveillance Works? Explained!

A recently published report in USA has outlined the route it takes for PRISM to get hold of the data from different tech giants. According to the report, PRISM uses nearly all the tech giants for leaking private data of the people in U.S. and outside it. Furthermore, it says Facebook was found to be […]

Firefox Plug-in Warns Users of NSA Surveillance

According to the recently leaked document from NSA by the Guardian, the U.S government is spying each and every conversation done by the American over the internet. Whether, it is via Google, Facebook or any other major brand. Furthermore, U.S government is also receiving phone records of millions of customer using Verizon. The program through […]

Surveillance Drones Now Being Deployed on German Railway Stations

The drones which fly at the height of 150 yards will be utilized at the graffiti “hotspots” such as the big German cities of Berlin, Cologne, Leipzig and Hamburg confirmed by the spokesman for Deutsche Bahn. The latest indication of the rising civilian market for remote controlled aerial reconnaissance is the use of drones. As […]

How Brazilian Government is Spying on its Citizens

The federal government of Brazil may indeed have access to private data that citizens may have provided to any private company. More than that, a state agency may get information that was cleared by another entity in the state with a different purpose. The findings are from a law professor Bruno Magrani, FGV-RJ. He is […]