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Brazil recently awarded a USD 4.5 billion deal for new fighter jets to a Swedish company on Wednesday. The deal, which was negotiated over three presidencies, was awarded to Saab, a Sweden-based organization offering products and services ranging from military defense to civil security. There were three contenders to the deal—Chicago-based Boeing and French Dassault […]
Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, a Senator and the First Lady, is not yet convinced that Snowden leaked the classified documents because he was concerned about the basic privacy rights of Americans. Defending the country’s mass surveillance programs and their extent of surveying while speaking at the University of Connecticut, she blasted Edward Snowden, […]
Both were key players in exposing the US government surveillance program that has outraged the national and international communities alike. Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden Ex-NSA tech Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras were awarded the 2014 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named after the Vietnam veteran Ron Ridenhour, a whistleblower and an investigative journalist, who […]
Documents leaked by the ex-NSA contractor and the whistleblower, Edward Snowden, indicate GCHQ and NSA along with the US government were hand in glove about spying on Germany. The espionage was not just limited to political leaders but includes some top German companies as well. The German news magazine, Der Spigel, and the First Look […]
In an exclusive interview with NBC, the ex-American president Mr. Jimmy Carter expressed his views on the NSA; according to which Mr. Carter believes that he is being spied by the NSA. During the interview when he was asked about NSA surveillance, he replied: When I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or […]
NSA hacked into servers of Huawei Technologies, a Chinese network manufacturer, and collected information to plant ‘backdoors’ on their equipment, according to latest media reports based on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. NSA, however, declined to comment on the company specifically but in an email statement to the IDG news service, the agency said: […]
The list of secrets held by the NSA is a never-ending one. Latest in the list includes its refusal to disclose the amount of water it pumps in its new data center at Bluffdale, Utah. An aerial view of the NSA’s Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. According to a letter sent to officials in Utah. […]
The CIA and the US senate committee are at loggerheads, according to media reports on Tuesday. This meme describes the Hypocrisy at its best Reuters reported that all does not seem to be well between the CIA and one of the greatest ally of the US intelligence, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the US Senate Committee chairwoman. […]
According to one of the recent report, NSA is believed to be spying many Facebook users since 2010. NSA used a number of automated techniques to install malwares into users systems. Snowden Leaks: NSA Posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware NSA codenamed these techniques as “TRIBUNE”, executed via a network of malware implant which […]
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower made his longest public appearance at the SXSW conference since his surveillance act. This was done through a video conference made via Google hangouts Snowden but in this Snowden’s actual location was kept hidden through a barrage of 7 proxies. Snowden in this event was basically addressing the programmers and […]
Boeing is set to launch a self-destructing smartphone that would aid the spies, diplomats and others keep their data secure, according to media reports. The smartphone is self-destructing if anyone ever tried to temper with it, says the company. There are no serviceable parts on Boeing’s Black phone and any attempted servicing or replacing of […]
A document among the trove leaked by Edward Snowden contains slides showing images of flying saucer as reported by Yahoo News Following a report published by Yahoo News, it was revealed that Edward Snowden has leaked documents containing mysterious UFO images. The Daily Mail however has a different view, according to a UFO experts the mysterious spacecrafts in […]
It is not just the NSA, the infamous snooping authority of the US, that has been collecting data of millions of Americans, many other private companies do the same, according to reports published from theObama administration. On Facebook, there are some 350 million photos uploaded and shared every day.“On YouTube, 100 hours of video is […]
Screenshot of the deface page left by the hackers EC- Council Website of the Security Certification Group got defaced with passport of Snowden. Passports of 60,000 US military and government IT professionals at risk. The EC-Council website http://www.eccouncil.org which is basically an international council of the E-commerce consultants has been defaced this past Sunday evening. The hacker […]
In 2012, we reported that US NAVY faces 110,000 cyber attacks every hour. Now a report has gone viral that Iran’s penetration into the US Navy’s computer network was far more extensive than previously imagined, according to Wall Street Journal . The officer who led the response attack may face questions on it from senators considering his […]
Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman, has launched a petition seeking clemency for Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked data about the NSA surveillance program, starting a national debate on American citizens’ privacy, according to the Ron Paul Channel. The online petition is available here with a video message by Mr. Ron Paul, urging people to sign the […]
USA identifies its drone targets based on NSA metadata, a flawed tactic, according to reports published in the Intercept. A former NSA operative for Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), on condition of anonymity, disclosed about the prevalent practice in the NSA is to target phones “in the hopes that the person on the other end […]
Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, used a very simple ‘Web crawler’ to collect controversial NSA data, according to a senior intelligence official quoted by The New York Times. He further added that the collection process was ‘quite automated’ and the software did the ‘search, index, and backup’ of files while Snowden went about his daily […]
The latest in the series of Snowden revelations include attacks of British spies on hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec. According to NBC news, who obtained the leaked classified documents from Snowden, the spy unit used questionable practices not just against the hackers but also against web communications of political dissidents. A division (Joint Threat Research […]
Pirate party members from Iceland and Sweden have nominated Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning for Noble prize award. Such a recognition for both the gentlemen has been due to their overwhelming efforts for saving humanity from injustice. Although, this recognition might not be an equivalent to their work. But, it will certainly encourage people to […]
A terror suspect has challenged the constitutionality of the NSA’s surveillance program alleging that the federal government has gone too far on spying, according to a court document filed on Wednesday. Jamshid Muhtorov’s file photo Jamshid Muhtorov, an Uzbek terror suspect from Colorado, in a motion filed in the Denver court with the help of […]