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Snowden leaves airport after getting 1 year asylum in Russia

NSA‘s whistleblower Edward Snowden has left the airport after receiving 1 year asylum in Russia from the government. RT reports that Snowden’s representative Anatoly Kucherena has confirmed that NSA’s whistleblower has been granted a temporary political asylum in the Russian Federation. I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service. They are what he needs to leave the transit […]

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 […]

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 […]