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What could have been the motivation for Snowden to become the whistleblower? This question intrigued many ever since Edward Snowden, the ex-NSA contractor, leaked intelligence documents and sought asylum in Moscow. Two of the top intelligence officials of the US intelligence community share a common thinking on this question. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairperson of the […]
The US government’s extensive dragnet across the country keeping track of almost everything that travels across the internet and following every single phone call has not helped much in preventing terrorist attacks, according to a report released by the New America Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit policy group. The group analyzed 225 terrorism cases in the […]
A European Parliament committee has approved inviting the ex-NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, to testify for US snooping on the EU leaders through a video link. The Justice and Civil Liberties Committee of the parliament voted 36-2 with one abstention in favor of seeking testimony from the US whistleblower who has sought asylum in Moscow temporarily. […]
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), had alleged through his leaked documents that the NSA along with its British counterpart GCHQ monitored the email traffic of Ehud Olmert in last days of his tenure; others being intercepted were Ehud Barak and the Hebrew University’s Institute of Physics—a renowned center […]
Academics from all over the world have joined hands in form of a protest against mass surveillance. There has been an increasing uproar about privacy encroachments; thanks to many such revelations that have highlighted the degree of surveillance a person can face. To counter this unprecedented level of surveillance, academicians around the world have come […]
TAO, the arm of the US National Security Agency (NSA), is embroiled in penetrating the security structures of Apple iPhone; and this time it is alleged that the manufacturer colluded with the intelligence agency. It has been reported that the NSA’s DROPOUT JEEP program could access voicemail, contact lists, text messages, files, location and could […]
NSA involved in abusive surveillance and offensive cyber attacks, manipulating bank balances to achieve targets. Until now we only knew one side of the story but now it is time to expose the other side. A general perception that National Security Agency (NSA) spies on just about everyone in the world may need to be revisited. According […]
A federal judge has said in his ruling that spying and collecting personal information of American citizens is completely legal and a ”counter-punch” to eliminate al-Qaeda’s terror network. A New York federal judge has given a ruling that National Security Agency (NSA)’s PRISM surveillance and spying program is legal. The ruling is opposite to ruling that […]
The NSA’s whistle blower Edward Snowden has said that ‘’he has already won, he has achieved what he dreamed of ’’ especially when journalists around the world got keen to expose what NSA has been doing since 2001. In an interview to the Washington post, ex – NSA tech Snowden said that it is satisfying […]
Despite Snowden’s voluntarily offer to help Brazil in investigating National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying activities against the country, the land of beauty has no plans to grant him any kind of asylum. Reuters- Brazil carries no plans for giving asylum to Snowden even after this former contractor of NSA has offered them to be part […]
FBI has formulated some advanced surveillance techniques which enable them to secretly activate web cams for spying on the suspected computer owners. According to a recent publication of the Washington Post, G-men have developed the ability to remotely access cameras which capture real images and transmit them to the investigators. The cameras are accessed without […]
Wednesday: I am not allowed to use iPhone for security reason: President Barak Obama. President Barak Obama has given an unusual statement during a meeting with American youth in order to promote his healthcare law in which he revealed that due to ‘security reasons’, he is not allowed to use Apple‘s iPhone yet he still uses iPad , Apple’s tablet […]
Kevin Barrera was murdered at age 14 in 2009 in Richmond, California. In 2013, however, his death took on new proportions after his father, Jose Barreras, found the image of the crime scene in Google Maps. In the image, which is still available on Google Maps, you can see a police car, a body and, by all […]
If you think its just the National Security Agency (NSA) that pokes its nose in your privacy then you are wrong. American Intelligence Agency CIA is following NSA’s footsteps by collecting information from money-transfer companies especially Western Union, building a database of international money transfer data. CIA collects such information under the shadow of same provision of […]
We have always heard about drones killing people in Afghanistan and Pakistan or most of the times used for surveillance purposes. But now there is a drone that can actually save lives. Iranian engineers at RTS Lab in Tehran have successfully tested their first ever Pars Rescue Robot Drone with amazing ability to quickly locate drowning […]
We are well familiar with the NSA‘s spying over its own citizens and all over the globe but can the government go to a limit where you can’t even ‘poo’ with freedom eh? Recently, I have found three images circulating over the internet talking about government of the United States spying on its citizens in the public toilets. […]
Brazilian authorities have accused Google of spying over their country’s streets. According to the authorities, Google since the launch of it’s street view application have gathered a large quantity of data that can be used for spying. This is not the first time Google has been reported for such an act recently EU authorities too […]
The Guardian has come up with in depth analysis of documents leaked by NSA’s whistleblower Edward Snowden. The presentation shows what came up in Snowden’s mind that forced him to leave a lavish job and how he faced the hard time in HongKong followed by deportation pressure from the government of HongKong. Presentation talk about […]
Glenn Greenwald, who is the person at the forefront of the reports that have been published on the spying program of National Security Agency (NSA) had a conversation with German Aranda who is El Mundo journalist, and has stressed that the spying activities of US have spanned far more than just Europe. Greenwald said that: […]
According to a recent report, National Security Agency (NSA) has infiltrated into the communication links that are present between global data centers of Yahoo and Google. This revelation has been made by a document that has been released by the whistle blower Edward Snowden. By penetrating into those links, it has allowed the agency to […]
In a massive hacking scandal, a leaked document belonging to the US intelligence shows that Israel is behind hacking of thousands of text messages and phone calls in France. A report publishing in Le Monde suggests that agents of Israeli intelligence Mossad has its hands behind a massive cyber attack in May 2012 on Elysee Palace, attempting to hack […]