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WikiLeaks Exposes NSA’s Addiction of Eavesdropping on Its Friends

A new assortment of documents have been released by WikiLeaks revealing National Security Agency has been spying on its German associates who are solely responsible for economics, commerce, finance and agriculture sector of the country. The documents, named as “The Euro Intercepts”, comprises of a list of phone numbers of German public officials and ministers who […]

Using Drone for Abortion: Here Comes The Abortion Drone

Dutch based campaigners are focusing on women’s access to “easy and safe” method to bring an end to pregnancy with the help of drone technology. These drones are named as the “abortion drone”. This Saturday, small drones carrying packages of abortion medication pills were flown from Germany to Poland, a country where women are faced with […]

Europol to Hunt Extremists Spreading ISIS Propaganda on Social Media

Europol is going after people using social media platforms to spread ISIS propaganda.  It was the Anonymous hacktivist group who took the initiative and exposed 26,000+ Twitter accounts having alleged links with ISIS/ISIL group. The group also leaked a list of websites allegdly spporting the extremist group. Now a new Police Unit has been established […]

Belgian Watchdog Sues Facebook for Tracking Users

Facebook is in hot water. The social media giant is being taken to court by Belgium’s Privacy Commission (BPC), among accusations that it has violated privacy laws. The BPC has slammed Mark Zuckerberg’s creation for spying on non-users and the tracking system that is being utilised by the company. The main issues are not the tracking […]

Facebook accepts tracking non-users, claims a ‘bug’ made it happened

Facebook can Track Non-Users through ‘a bug’ — Working to fix it as fast as possible. Researchers at Facebook identified a “bug” that allowed them to track people who haven’t ever visited the website. The discovery was made public by Richard Allen, the European policy vice president of the social networking giant, in a blogpost […]

European Cyber Police Shuts Down World’s Biggest “Ramnit” Botnet

In a joint operation cyber police from United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany and Italy have claimed successful breakdown of what can be the world’s biggest ever botnets known as Ramnit. The Ramit malware is so dangerous that according to researchers it has compromised more than 3.2 million Microsoft Windows based PCs, and still active in 350,000 computers […]

European Parliament invites Snowden to testify against NSA’s Surveillance

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. […]

French President’s Website Hacked by Anonymous Hackers

Anonymous hackers have attacked again, this time the French president’s website has been hacked and taken down against the French support for Megaupload crackdown and for officially supporting the SOPA and PIPA legislation, this Friday. Anonymous left their official “We are legion” message on the Presidential website. According to RT Few days ago according to AFP, the French Culture Minister, Frederic Mitterrand hailed […]

Motorola wins injunction against Apple iOS devices

In past, Apple has faced many lawful problems and now it has been kicked into a new one by Motorola as Motorola has won a certain preliminary injunction against some of the Apple products. It’s not the first time when Motorola has caused a problem for Apple. The injunction has practically affected devices with GPRS […]