- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 22nd, 2016
NSA Would Like to Keep Zero-Day Bugs Secret for as Long as It Can
The EFF and the NSA are caught in a heated legal battle
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 21st, 2016
NSA Data Center Experiences Up to 300 Million Cyber-Attacks per Day
Six years ago, the cyber-attacks barely reached 25,000
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 30th, 2016
The US and UK Hacked Israeli Drones and Tapped into Their Video Feed
US and UK tapped into Israeli drone video feeds since 2008
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 1st, 2015
Judge Allows a National Security Letter to Be Revealed for the First Time
A look at one of the FBI's secret weapons against terrorism
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 9th, 2015
German Secret Service Spied on Allies, Red Cross, and Oxfam
German Secret Service (BND) shared data with the NSA
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 8th, 2015
NSA Discloses 91 Percent of Zero-Day Bugs It Finds, Keeps the Rest for Itself
US spying agency reveals bug disclosure program's stats
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 28th, 2015
Regin Spyware Found on Merkel Assistant's Laptop
The spyware has connections to the NSA's spying tools
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 17th, 2015
Encryption Flaw Allows the NSA to Break HTTPS and VPN Traffic
A theory that fits all the other clues more than others
- Linux
- By Silviu Stahie
- October 12th, 2015
NSA's XKEYSCORE Surveillance Is Running on Hundreds of Red Hat Linux Servers
Linux OSes are not always being used in worthy causes
- Web Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 29th, 2015
Edward Snowden Joins Twitter, Becomes Instant Hit
Snowden follows only one user. Can you guess who?
- Security, Surveillance & Survival
- By Horia Despa
- August 25th, 2015
Hortonworks Buys Onyara
Hortonworks now possesses a special kind of expertise
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 29th, 2015
White House Refuses to Pardon Edward Snowden, Regardless of Online Petition
White House: Snowden should return home and face trial
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 28th, 2015
NSA to Stop Accessing Phone Data on November 29, Will Delete Old Records
Phone metadata will be deleted as soon as litigations end
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 14th, 2015
NSA Releases Systems Integrity Management Tool (SIMP) on GitHub
NSA releases free tools for boosting security protocols
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 23rd, 2015
NSA, GCHQ Reverse Engineered Security Tools in Search for Weaknesses
Kaspersky products - a thorn in the side of govt activity
- Other Search Engines
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 17th, 2015
Snowden's NSA Revelations Helped DuckDuckGo Grow 600% Since 2013
DuckDuckGo is currently serving 3 billion searches per year
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 5th, 2015
NSA Authorized for Warrantless Internal Spying to Hunt Down Hackers
Extended surveillance power was granted in secret