The Chaos Computer Club has filed a criminal complaint against the German government and the presidents of the German secret services over their NSA links, and it wants to call Edward Snowden as a witness.…
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NSA and GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn to hack Belgian cryptography professor
Jean-Jacques Quisquater says the Belgian federal police tipped him off that he had been hacked in an attack related to that on telco Belgacom, which fell victim to GCHQ last year.…
Read MoreFormer GCHQ spy chief Andrew France revealed as CEO of Mike Lynch-funded Darktrace
The former deputy director for cyber defense operations at the U.K.'s signals intelligence agency has made the leap to the private sector, heading up a firm with an unusual approach to network security.…
Read MorePublic Wi-Fi also a spying tool, Snowden documents show in new Canada scandal
Though certain details remain frustratingly absent, a CBC News report suggests Canadian spy agency CSEC unlawfully tracked people using free public Wi-Fi in a Canadian airport, and possibly elsewhere, in what was a trial run for a now-operational program.…
Read MoreNSA, GCHQ look to Angry Birds and other apps for personal info (not your high scores)
With apps requiring more and more permissions -- think of your location, contact lists and call log -- it's becoming easier for the intelligence community to gather data from individuals. The lesson? Pay attention to app permissions before installing.…
Read MoreEuropean Court of Human Rights fast-tracks UK mass surveillance case
The activist coalition Privacy Not Prism has made some headway in its quest to prove that mass surveillance by UK intelligence agencies is illegal.…
Read MorePakistani human rights group sues UK government over surveillance
Bytes for All claims the likely tapping of its communications through the UK's Tempora mass interception program violates its rights under European law, because the tapping would have taken place in the UK.…
Read MoreAcademics band together to plead for online privacy
Around 250 leading academics from around the world have decried the online spying activities of U.S. and European intelligence services in an…
Read MoreNSA and Britain’s GCHQ targeted aid groups and top EU, Israeli and African officials
Another day, another addition to our pool of knowledge regarding U.S. and British surveillance activities. According to the Guardian, Der Spiegel and…
Read MoreNSA’s taste for cookies reveals the danger of marketing-driven web tracking
Privacy advocates have always been down on cookies, but news that the NSA and GCHQ tap into their power highlights the dangers that are inherent to today's online advertising systems.…
Read MoreAustralia offered to share citizens’ metadata with allies, report claims
Prime Minister Tony Abbott still refuses to allow an inquiry into the Australian intelligence services, after it emerged that they were content with sharing surveillance data with the U.S. and U.K. without stripping out data relating to normal Australian citizens.…
Read MoreRole of fiber operators in NSA surveillance scandal falls under greater scrutiny
The New York Times has published further details of an NSA operation that involves spying on the fiberoptic cables running between the…
Read MoreNSA news roundup: Malware attacks and a Treasure Map
The Dutch publication NRC has published claims, based on Edward Snowden’s leaks, that more than 50,000 computing networks around the world have…
Read MoreHere’s what we know about European collaboration with the NSA
As Norway becomes the latest European country to be dragged into the surveillance scandal, it's worth running through the revelations we've seen thus far.…
Read MoreHere’s how British intelligence used LinkedIn and Slashdot to dupe telecoms workers
Although LinkedIn and Slashdot had no knowledge of it, the GCHQ agency used fake versions of their webpages as way of sneaking malware onto the networks of major mobile connection exchanges. Here's how that worked.…
Read MoreNSA and GCHQ hacked into systems of oil body OPEC, Snowden leak says
The latest Snowden scoop, according to Germany’s Der Spiegel: the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, have thoroughly infiltrated the computer systems…
Read MoreAlmost a quarter of German companies now see the cloud as very risky, after NSA leaks
It’s not exactly a surprise, but confidence in the cloud has taken a battering in Germany after the Snowden revelations. A PricewaterhouseCoopers(s…
Read MoreUK spy chiefs claim Snowden leaks damaged national security, but won’t tell public how
The heads of the UK's highest-profile intelligence services, GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, all appeared before a parliamentary committee on Thursday to not explain why Snowden's surveillance revelations have harmed the country.…
Read MoreBelgian telco says it was hacked, while reports point to NSA or GCHQ as culprit
Belgium's federal prosecutor is looking into a claim by Belgacom that its systems were hacked into and infected with a virus. Reports say the complexity of the malware suggests an intelligence agency was to blame.…
Read MoreSo, how’s Huawei’s trust-us facility in the UK working out then?
Huawei has set up a testing facility in the U.K. to assure security services that its widespread networking kit is backdoor-free. Only it turns out "the Cell" doesn't have a whole lot of oversight.…
Read MoreDid British spies shoot down BlackBerry 10 for security reasons? Not quite
Both BlackBerry and the UK intelligence services have denied reports that the Z10 and its BlackBerry 10 software have been nixed for governmental use due to security fears.…
Read MoreWhat the web’s saying about UK internet snooping laws
Plans by the British government to give intelligence agencies access to details of every phone call, email, text and website visit made in the country have drawn plenty of anger from across the spectrum. Here's what people are saying about the controversy.…
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