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According to researchers, the PRISM backdoor has been on their radar for more than 3.5 years. Security researchers at AT&T Labs have published a report sharing details of a newly discovered Linux ELF executables cluster having zero to low antivirus detections on VirusTotal. Researchers noted that these executables have a modified version of the open-source backdoor […]
Dec 31st was the expiry date for section702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Tech groups have been bandied together to remind Congress that the decision to extend the act should not be taken so lightly. And there should be an open debate rather than a rubber stamp to the provision which allows the […]
The Amnesty International (United Kingdom) launched an online petition in support of ex-NSA spy and now a whistleblower Mr. Edward Snowden, urging people from around the world to help the organization reach 20,000 signatures. The Justice For Edward Snowden petition asks US President Barack Obama not to punish Snowden for exposing human rights abuses conducted […]
On Monday, CBC News and The Intercept collaboratively disclosed for the very first time how Canada has endorsed aggressive strategies for attacking, sabotaging and infiltrating their targeted computers. Thanks to New Snowden Documents. The Intercept obtained documents from the famous National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden As per the new documents, Canada’s electronic surveillance agency has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Earlier we had reported how lawmakers in the U.S. are accusing Edward Snowden, the ex-NSA contractor and whistle-blower of being a Russian spy, today Snowden has categorically denied the allegations that he was a Russian spy and acting on behalf of a foreign hand. In a statement to The New Yorker, he said, “this ‘Russian spy’ […]