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LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 05, 2014

Is there Another NSA Leaker? Updated

This morning a partial analysis of the NSA

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 30, 2014

What I Learned from Edward Snowden at the Hacker Conference

It was 1 PM last Saturday and Edward Snowden was about to be televised. His audience was the crowd at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference, a group of people no one would ever mistake for attendees at a political convention. Amid the sea of black clothing were many unconventional fashion statements: purple bandanas and balloon pants, and tartan kilts, and white robes, and green hair.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 25, 2014

Edward Snowden Calls on Hackers to Help Whistleblowers Leak More Secrets

Edward Snowden made an impassioned call on Saturday for hackers and technologists to help would-be whistleblowers spill more government secrets.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 21, 2014

The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World

During his last six years working as an elite security researcher for Google, the hacker known as Morgan Mayhem spent his nights and weekends hunting down the malware used to spy on vulnerable targets like human rights activists and political dissidents.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2014

How Traffic Shaping Can Help the NSA Evade Legal Oversight

New research paper on how the NSA can evade legal prohibitions against collecting Internet data and metadata on Americans by forcing domestic traffic to leave and return to the US. The general technique is called "traffic shaping," and has legitimate uses in network management.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2014

Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping to early adopters

The wait is almost over for early adopters of Blackphone, an Android-based smartphone that promises enhanced privacy and security.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 30, 2014

Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance

The odds are you can

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 24, 2014

How to Anonymize Everything You Do Online

One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2014

New Ruling Shows the NSA Can

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said no this week to tracking your movements using data from your cell phone without a warrant when it declared that this information is constitutionally protected.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 13, 2014

Several Governments Have Backdoor Access to Phone Networks, Says Vodafone

An undisclosed number of countries have direct backdoor access to the communications passing through the network of telecommunications giant Vodafone, without needing to obtain a warrant, according to a new transparency report released by the company.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2014

Greenwald to publish list of U.S. citizens NSA spied on

Glenn Greenwald, one of the reporters who chronicled the document dump by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden via the U.K. press, now said he

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2014

Definitely deleted: How to guarantee your data is truly gone before recycling old PCs and drives

Deleted files can often be recovered, and that's a problem when you're passing your PC or PC-related tech along to someone else. Whether it's sensitive financial data, business documents, or scandalous photos that could be used to blackmail you, you probably don't want people getting their hands on your private stuff.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 19, 2014

Tails 1.0: A bootable Linux distro that protects your privacy

These days, it seems as though anyone who uses the Internet is a tasty morsel for insatiable data thieves. Marketers, governments, criminals and random snoops won't be satisfied until they can snarf whatever information they want about us at any time.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 13, 2014

Correspondence Between the NSA and Google Leaked

Al Jazeera is reporting on leaked emails (not leaked by Snowden, but by someone else) detailing close ties between the NSA and Google. There are no smoking guns in the correspondence -- and the Al Jazeera article makes more of the e-mails than I think is there -- but it does show a closer relationship than either side has admitted to before.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2014

Emails shed light on Google's work with NSA

Two sets of emails obtained by Al Jazeera America under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that Google's cooperation with the National Security Agency (NSA) may have been less coerced than the company has let on.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 07, 2014

Security guru: You can't blame EDWARD SNOWDEN for making US clouds LOOK leaky

Accusations that the revelations from rogue National Security Agency sysadmin whistleblower Edward Snowden have damaged the US technology industry are misplaced, according to influential security guru Mikko Hypponen.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 30, 2014

Has the NSA Been Using the Heartbleed Bug as an Internet Peephole?

When ex-government contractor Edward Snowden exposed the NSA

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 11, 2014

Wild at Heart: Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?

Yesterday afternoon, Ars Technica published a story reporting two possible logs of Heartbleed attacks occurring in the wild, months before Monday's public disclosure of the vulnerability. It would be very bad news if these stories were true, indicating that blackhats and/or intelligence agencies may have had a long period when they knew about the attack and could use it at their leisure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 10, 2014

Why Privacy Is Actually Thriving Online

Privacy is dead

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 31, 2014

Linux Privacy - Page 18

Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

Google Chooses Passkeys Over Passwords: Examining the Security Benefits for Linux Users

Tails 6.6 Released: Unpacking Key Features & Updates