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A Supreme Court judge in Buffalo ordered the Sheriff Office at Erie Country to disclose secret information to public which was collected from the public through Stingray surveillance device including phone numbers and locations of New Yorkers. Apart from the utterly questionably legality and constitutionality of this sort of mass surveillance, it is the high level […]
Last month security researchers discovered an undetectable malware installed in the hard drives by the American National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on people around the world. Those findings were indeed serious but there is another light to the story. Researcher at Kaspersky Labs have discovered a list of domains used by the NSA to install malware […]
The controversial cybersecurity legislation Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) will be passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, said the panel’s spokeswoman. Information-sharing on cyber threats between private companies and intelligence agencies will be improved through this measure known as the CISA. There were some concerns expressed by the White House and Democrats over […]
US Consumers looking for a wireless steal can now get encrypted free monthly phone service thanks to FreedomPop, the firm behind the market new entrant “Snowden Phone.” FreedomPop allows Americans to use free cellphone service. In March 2014, Los Angeles start-up FreedomPop benefitted from rising public concerns regarding mass surveillance with its Privacy Phone, which […]
A lawsuit has been filed against NSA (National Security Agency) to preserve the rights of the 500 million Wikipedia users who visit the website on a monthly basis. The reason apparently is the endangered democratic pillar of free exchange of knowledge and ideas. The mass or “upstream” surveillance on American territories by NSA potentially violates […]
Signal 2.0, is the second installment of the app of the same name that was created for iOS. Its release has been confirmed by the creator Open Whisper Systems on Monday. The reason why this news is special is that Signal 2.0 will allow users to receive and send encrypted messages to Redphone and Textsecure […]
Shocking acceleration in the use of Cyberweapons between Iran and the U.S against each other has been revealed in a newly released National Security Agency document. This document was prepared for the then director of the NSA Gen. Keith B. Alexander in April 2013. As per the illustration in this document, Iran and the US […]
With the recent reports making media headlines about how the NSA and GCHQ have compromised millions of SIM keys manufactured by Gemalto, a Dutch company, one needs to be aware of the security measures that could be adopted to keep their smartphones reasonably protected safe if not unassailable. There are technologies to assist in phone […]
The US surveillance agency, National Security Agency (NSA) along with its British counterpart the Government Communications (GCHQ) has compromised one of the largest SIM card manufacturer’s system to steal millions of encryption keys since 2010, according to a report published in The Intercept. Encryption keys are used to activate and encrypt communications between a user’s […]
The US National Security Agency (NSA) hid undetectable spying software within the hard drives of computers, be it of any make, says a Moscow-based cyber security researcher and software maker. Several personal computers (more than tens of thousands) in more than 30 countries were infected with one or more of the spying programs, said Kaspersky […]
The person who developed the free email encryption software Gnu Privacy Guard in 1997, which was used by famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and so many other journalists, security officials and dissidents worldwide, is going broke. Yes you read it right! He needs money to keep this amazing project alive. The software was developed by […]
The mobile device BlackPhone, which was marketed as a super secure phone, has just had to run a patch to fix a vulnerability which allowed hackers to compromise the devices. The malicious code was able to attack the devices through no more than the Silent Text application. The BlackPhone device is actually a target for […]
The FBI is trying its best to convince an ambiguous regulatory body in Washington to modify its operation rules with the aim of possessing new powers to hack into and perform surveillance of computer systems all over the world. In response, civil liberties groups are of the view that this rule modification will bring great […]
Edward Snowden, ex-NSA contractor and the whistleblower about NSA’s massive surveillance dragnets, says the US government can remotely control a targeted cellphone. In an exclusive interview with Brian Williams of NBC News, who interviewed him in Moscow last week, Snowden spoke about some of the revelations made last year and the reason he chose to […]
If you are not comfortable with the surveillance cameras, an identity replacement technology that is basically a Surveillance identity prosthetic provides you a new face. If you find all people around you having the same face like you saw the agents in Matrix 3, then Leo Selvaggio is the one to thank. He has designed a […]
Privacy concerns over the Facebook Chat App is at an all time high. Increasingly more and more people are voicing their concern and even their anger at the permissions needed from the user in order to use the App. Although the App was released some time ago, it wasn’t until Facebook took away end user […]
Previously we told you about ProtonMail, an email service said to be totally surveillance proof. The developers of this service are going to release a mobile app soon and this follows a very successful Indiegogo campaign which is known to raise around 6 times of the initial goal of $100,000. This is an extremely successful […]
German Humanist Union, an independent civil liberties organization, has awarded Snowdenwith the Fritz Bauer Prize for exposing NSA’s controversial surveillance practices. The prize named after Fritz Bauer, a German prosecutor and judge who played an important role in Oswiecim trials of former SS officers, was instituted in 1968 and is given to people who excel […]
Oliver Stone is known for depicting famous [rather infamous] real life stories on screen. And the list of his highly successful real-life depictions includes the Scarface, Kennedy assassination, the Watergate break-in, the Vietnam conflict, and the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror.’ The latest to be included in the list is the adaptation of ‘The Snowden […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) collects millions of facial images transmitted through the Internet and uses them for various facial recognition programs, according to classified documents leaked by Snowden. A recent article published in The New York Times by James Risen and Laura Poitras, the journalist who along with Glen Greenwald was handed over the […]
Necessity is the mother of invention, the old adage has proved its worth again when a group of Harvard and MIT students came together to create an NSA-proof email service. ProtonMail, the new email platform launched at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) by five security experts ‘who were drawn together by a shared vision of […]