
Tag : NSA
Apple Designing Servers In-House to Prevent Snooping
With the amount of sensitive information stored on their servers, cloud providers take security very seriously. However, many cloud services actually use third-party servers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure to run their platform. Even for those…
Former Heads of NSA & Homeland Support Apple In Encryption Battle
In its recent arguments against the FBI, Apple has found companies rallying behind its arguments that you can’t force a company to break its own protection without risking others. Even Microsoft have come out saying that…
NSA Director Defends Their Pro-Encryption Stance
Encryption is currently under threat, some countries already requiring backdoors and other compromising measures to be put in place. The debate on the effects of allowing encryption rages on in many nations, with institutions such as…
Ex-NSA Director Warns UK Snooper’s Charter Will Kill People
The former Technical Director of the NSA has warned that should the UK Investigatory Powers Bill – nicknamed the Snooper’s Charter – pass into law that it will result in the deaths of innocent people. Bill…
NSA and GCHQ Worked Together to Hack Juniper Firewalls
Spies from the UK intelligence services worked with the US National Security Agency to hack firewalls developed by top internet security firm Juniper Networks, according to documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. GCHQ, wanting to crack…
NSA to End Blanket Mobile Surveillance by Deadline
In recent years, we have had several revelations in regards to how and what our governments and our agencies do in order to “protect us”, this has at times included activities which go against the very…
NSA Kept E-Mail Metadata Program After Claiming it Ended in 2011
Following the massive leak of surveillance data by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, it was revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA – its headquarters pictured above) had been collecting e-mail metadata as part of…
Government Officials Blame Snowden Leaks for Paris Attacks
In the wake of the tragic and devastating attacks in Paris last week, many questioned why the authorities were unable to predict and stop the attacks. In fact, despite the wide-ranging and intrusive surveillance systems in place, the…
Paris Attackers Allegedly Used PS4s and PSN to Communicate
In a development that is likely to place more pressure on the technology sector, reports are coming out that the perpetrators of the recent Paris attacks used Sony PS4s to communicate and coordinate their attack. This comes…

Edward Snowden Explains Why he Supports Ad-Blockers
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower-turned-press freedom advocate exiled in Russia after leaking NSA documents that demonstrated the terrifying scope of its mass surveillance program, has publicly endorsed ad-blocking software and has encouraged every internet user to employ…
FBI Allegedly Paid Carnegie Mellon University $1m to Break Tor
The Onion Network (or Tor), a free browser designed to allow anonymous, encrypted internet communication, has been the bane of law enforcement and intelligence agencies since its inception (though the NSA reportedly peeled back Tor’s layers…
European Parliament Votes to Protect Edward Snowden
After the mess the European Union made of its net neutrality laws, it’s heartening to see them doing something positive. Earlier today (29th October), the European Parliament voted in favour of protecting NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden…
Tim Cook Tells NSA That Good Guys Shouldn’t Get Backdoors
Apple CEO Tim Cook has spoken out against proposals for backdoors in encrypted systems for intelligence agencies to exploit. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live technology conference in Laguna Beach, California, Cook spoke out…
Facebook Will Let You Know if Your Account is Hacked by the NSA
Facebook has revealed a new feature that will notify users if it suspects their account has been hacked by parties “working on behalf of a nation-state,” including the US. If your account has potentially been compromised,…
NCA Warning After Hackers Steal £20 Million from UK Bank Accounts
The UKs National Crime Agency have urged the people of Britain to ensure they take adequate measures of online security after a significant strain of malicious software allowed criminal hackers to steal an estimated £20 million…
Snowden Leak Reveals How Microsoft Helped the NSA Bypass Encryption
Privacy, spying, hacking, monitoring, tracking, just some of the words that people around the world have become frighteningly familiar with over the last few years. Edward Snowden uncovered many details of how our governments treat our…
We Have Edward Snowden to Thank for The X-Files Revival
We’re but four months away from the much-hyped The X-Files revival, which reunites David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as the iconic Mulder and Scully to investigate the paranormal and government conspiracies, but it seems we might…
Wikipedia Founder Says There’s “No Excuse” Not to Use Encryption
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a major proponent of both freedom and privacy online, as evidenced by him filing a lawsuit against the NSA following the reveal of its mass surveillance program by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has…

Edward Snowden Twitter Notifications Resulted in 47GB of E-mails
NSA whistleblower and US exile Edward Snowden recently joined Twitter – his first act as a new member was to establish himself as the greatest troll of the 21st Century – and within three days he…
Edward Snowden Joins Twitter – Only Follows NSA
“Can you hear me now?” The stark words of Edward Snowdens first tweet as he joins social media platform Twitter. The account went live recently, gaining 160,000 followers in less than an hour, a number that…
Encrypted Communications May Make Discovering Aliens Impossible.
Well, it’s taken a bit longer than expected, but Edward Snowden has finally lost his sanity in Russia, this is rather a joke considering the headline sounds quite bizarre, but the cogent statement which Mr Snowden…
Whistleblower Who Posted Sensitive Materials to 4Chan Not Taken Seriously
A former employee of Australia’s Department of Defense, who held fellow countryman Julian Assange up as an idol, posted sensitive materials he stole from the workplace to 4chan, where no one took him seriously (and called…
NSA Surveillance Program Operating For a Very Long Time
NSA operations have been going on a long, long, long, long time, that is according to the latest revelations by both Edward Snowdon and also by a report from The Intercept, NSA/GCHQ’s top secret surveillance program…
White House Responds to Edward Snowdon Petition
Do you remember when 167,000 people signed a petition calling for Edward Snowdon to be pardoned? Not even Pepperidge Farms recalls this considering this was two years ago. The US government is known for hanging many…
Hacking team and Boeing Built a Surveillance Drone
The hack of Hacking team was hilarious but serious at the same time, to contemplate a freelance company hell-bent on hacking any target for a variety of employers seemed, well not surprising, but certainly a disappointing…
Who Has Your Digital Back: 24 Major Tech Companies Analysed
Ever since the NSA clothed assassin Edward Snowden released a cache of documents, (I am not an all government sympathizer and I admire the steps which Mr Snowden took to place this information into the public…
Government Looking for Exploits in Anti-Virus Software to Use Against You
Snowden’s latest leaked documents point to government agencies such as the NSA and GCHQ taking an interest in tracking user activity and spying on networks. However, to do that, they have to get one piece of…