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NSA hacked into servers at Huawei headquarters, reports say

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The U.S. National Security Agency has hacked into Huawei Technologies servers, spied on communications of company executives and collected information to plant so-called backdoors on equipment from the Chinese networking manufacturer, according to reports published over the weekend.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 24, 2014

Google Encrypts Web Searches To Fight Spying, Censorship

Spying by the NSA, its British counterpart, the GCHQ, and other organizations pushed Google to expand encryption, but protecting searches still falls short of encrypting other important and widely used services like Gmail. However, Google's decision to encrypt searches is a good start, said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-It.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 17, 2014

A Close Look at the NSA

We already knew that the NSA has weaponized the internet, enabling it to

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 13, 2014

US court disallows NSA from holding phone records beyond five years

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled against a U.S. government request that it be allowed to hold telephone metadata beyond the current five-year limit as it may be required as evidence in civil lawsuits that question the data collection.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 10, 2014

Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet

How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? It

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 03, 2014

If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox

While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 27, 2014

Obama in awkward spot after privacy board calls NSA snooping illegal

A report Thursday by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) calling the National Security Agency's bulk phone records collection program illegal and mostly useless puts the Obama Administration in an awkward spot.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 24, 2014

An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent

When mass political protests erupted throughout Brazil in June, Miguel Freitas did what countless others did: He followed the news on Twitter. Tweets revealed information he couldn

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 17, 2014

The Danger of NSA Spying on Members of Congress

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to the NSA on Friday asking, "Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?" The only acceptable answer ought to be, "No, of course not."

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 08, 2014

Infosec experts boycott RSA conflab over alleged 'secret' NSA contract

More security researchers are boycotting next month's US edition of the RSA Conference in protest against an alleged "secret deal" the company is said to have struck with the National Security Agency.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 08, 2014

Glenn Greenwald:

Nearly seven months after journalist and privacy activist Glenn Greenwald publicized Edward Snowden

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2014

Operation Vula

"Talking to Vula" is the story of a 1980s secret communications channel between black South African leaders and others living in exile in the UK. The system used encrypted text encoded into DTMF "touch tones" and transmitted from pay phones.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 30, 2013

Snowden: Dear Brazil, the NSA is watching you

Edward Snowden has written an extensive open letter to the people of Brazil to discuss his findings and ultimately seek asylum.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 18, 2013

The NSA Is Coming to Town, So Encrypt for Goodness

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is getting coal for Christmas. That

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 16, 2013

Cops and Feds Routinely

The nation

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 13, 2013

NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 12, 2013

Show us a better way than collecting metadata, NSA director says to critics

Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the country against attacks, the agency's director said Wednesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 12, 2013

How These 5 Dirtbags Radically Advanced Your Digital Rights

Bad facts make bad law, the saying goes. But sometimes, bad people make good law. Consider the following exhibits: a cocaine dealer, a child pornographer, a purveyor of suspect penis-enlargement pills, and two accused hackers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 11, 2013

NSA Spying on Online Gaming Worlds

he NSA is spying on chats in World of Warcraft and other games. There's lots of information -- and a good source document. While it's fun to joke about the NSA and elves and dwarves from World of Warcraft, this kind of surveillance makes perfect sense.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 10, 2013

NSA Wrongly Says Warrantless Mobile-Phone Location Tracking Is Legal

National Security Agency snoops are harvesting as many as 5 billion records daily to track mobile phones as they ping nearby cell towers across the globe.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2013

Linux Privacy - Page 19

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