Tag: NSA
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US Govt. Debuts New ‘Cyber Threat’ Agency
People are pretty annoyed at America right now due to intrusive spying undertaken online by security agencies from the country, so it’s only slightly less annoying that a new announcement from the Obama administration says that yet another group is to be set up to ‘defend’ the US from people online. The new group, called…
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GCHQ Cyber Spying Ruled Unlawful
Reports into NSA spying in the US by whistleblower Edwrad Snowden didn’t just reveal the activities of agencies spying on internet users in America – it also came out that the UK’s spying agency which handles cyber warfare, GCHQ, was also involved in the clandestine examination of data collected from internet users. Not only were…
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More NSA Docs Reveal Botnet Hijacking
Der Spiegel’s recent flurry of Snowden documents have been causing somewhat of a paranoid uproar in the etch community. As the various American security services demand that big companies not let the public have access to industry level encryption, we learn that the NSA have the ability to turn vast botnets from hostile hackers to…
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NSA Boasts Cyberwarfare Capabilities
Security agencies in America are notoriously embroiled in computer based methods of espionage, and outright warfare on the odd occasion. Now, hot off the presses from Edward Snowden’s leaked NSA secrets comes a good round of boasting from the NSA themselves, as the agency appears to be bragging about their formidable cyber warfare abilities against…
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Brazil Laying Their Own New Internet Cables
In the wake of the Edward Snowden/Wikileaks/NSA snooping debacle, the world has really woken up to government spying on the internet. Companies such as Google and Microsoft are suing the US Government for better transparency, Apple is mobilising its security people to encrypt data on smartphones – the entire tech industry is abuzz with the…
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Twitter Suing US Govt. Over Data Requests
The internet is becoming more and more entangled with government snooping and government data requests than ever before, with major companies such as Google and Microsoft being asked to hand over sensitive personal information about or created by people suspected of crimes or other misdemeanour’s. However, back in January both Microsoft and Google won a…
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Discovered iOS bug allows Apple iPhone to be attacked by malicious apps
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A security analyst has caused controversy after discovering a bug within Apple’s iOS software which reportedly leaves popular gadgets such as iPhone, iPod and iPad open to malicious attacks from certain apps which have made their way onto the app store. Third-party software submissions to the App Store are strictly monitored and this is…
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Robert Morris – Encryption and Security Expert behind UNIX passes away
Robert Morris, the cryptographer behind operating system UNIX has passed away this week at age 78. Morris emerged from Harvard University in 1958 with a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and was involved in research at AT&T’s Bell Labs in 1970, contributing his talents to early version of UNIX – the multitasking, multiuser computer system which…