The United States House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) with 248 to 168 votes, despite the many protests made by regular internet users, hacktivists and professionals.
Michael Rogers, the congressman who initiated the bill applauded the decision. ... |
28 April 2012
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William Binney, who was part of the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for more than 30 years, has revealed that the organization has a copy of most emails sent by US citizens. In an interview with Democracy Now, Binney, who served as a World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group director at t... |
23 April 2012
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The director of the National Security Agency (NSA) Gen. Keith Alexander told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the organization was certain that China was behind the RSA attack carried out last year.
According to InformationWeek, Alexander pointed the finger at China for a lot of attacks that targeted the US&... |
28 March 2012
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US Department of Defense (DoD), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the While House, all sent representatives to the RSA security conference that’s taking place in San Francisco and they revealed their intentions to enhance the control they have over the Internet.
According to Technology Review, US military... |
1 March 2012
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Michael Hayden, well known for once being the head of the NSA and CIA, recently urged the US Congress to allow the National Security Agency to monitor the activity on public networks in the attempt to locate potential threats.
According to Wired, because this was a highly controversial matter during the Bush admin... |
5 October 2011
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The recent hacking attack at NASDAQ, the world's second-largest stock trading market, might have been more serious than originally thought as the National Security Agency was brought into the investigation.Joel Brenner, the former head of U.S. counterintelligence, told Bloomberg that the involvement of NSA in th... |
31 March 2011
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Following the release of Windows XP, Microsoft implemented the Security Development Lifecycle in the building of Windows Vista, touting a tangibly superior operating system in terms of security. SDL was also the critical element in bulletproofing Windows 7, the Redmond company’s latest iteration of the Windows ... |
19 November 2009
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While most of us give little thought to how our personal and professional data is secured or whether malicious or mischievous perpetrators are trying to get their hands on it, legions of information security professionals working behind the scenes do the worrying for us and try mightily to thwart threats. Industry in... |
6 August 2009
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Speaking at a hearing in front of the House Armed Services subcommittee, the leader of the Pentagon's new Cyber Command, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, who is also the head of the US National Security Agency (NSA), said that the country needed to build up a digital warfare task force as soon as possible, in order to ... |
5 May 2009
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Recent reports point out that the United States National Security Agency will get back at any hacker trying to mess up their systems. Also, it is a known fact that they hack their way into different communication networks to wiretap - they're just monitoring any possible terrorist conversation. Now, these are ju... |
4 October 2007
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Now here is a great initiative from the United States National Security Agency - they've figured out that companies aren't that good at protecting themselves, so they're helping them out. Together with the Department of Homeland Security, they're helping protect government and private communicatio... |
21 September 2007
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