Critics say federal court got it wrong in defense of NSA activity
Court's rationale allows collection of almost any information on Americans, including all financial transactions and Internet activity
Antone Gonsalves | 19 Sep | Read more
Court's rationale allows collection of almost any information on Americans, including all financial transactions and Internet activity
Antone Gonsalves | 19 Sep | Read more
Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden's role as a systems administrator provided easy access to classified NSA documents sitting in a file-sharing location on the spy agency's intranet portal.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Sep | Read more
When NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander addressed Black Hat earlier this year, he painted a rosy picture of how well the agency controls access to its phone record database, but he never brought up cases when those controls broke down, unauthorized access was made and data was shared among analysts who shouldn't have seen it.
Tim Greene | 12 Sep | Read more
A U.S. official Tuesday defended the government's encryption efforts in follwing disclosures that the NSA has the ability to crack encryption protections.
Patrick Thibodeau | 10 Sep | Read more
Revelations that the National Security Agency may be pressuring vendors to put hidden backdoors in their software and hardware for espionage purposes casts a huge shadow over many programs run by the NSA to interact with the high-tech industry for purposes of evaluating, testing and accrediting products that use encryption.
Ellen Messmer | 10 Sep | Read more
Strategy would make probing data flow expensive and hard, likely forcing the NSA to obtain a court order for targeted data
Antone Gonsalves | 10 Sep | Read more
Know an IT team that’s done a great job on a security-related project recently? The Australian Information Security Association (AISA) awards are back this year, with less than two weeks to go until the September 16 nomination deadline.
David Braue | 10 Sep | Read more
Though the National Security Agency spends billions of dollars to crack encryption technologies, security experts maintain that properly implemented, encryption is still the best way to maintain online privacy.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 Sep | Read more
The NSA (the National Security Agency, or, as some people prefer, No Such Agency) has found itself in the spotlight lately, owing in large part to leaks from former contractor Edward Snowden. But although the agency has been in hot water because of who it has been spying on, snooping isn't the agency's only job. The NSA also plays an important role in helping the rest of the government secure its computers from outside attackers.
Rich Mogull | 06 Sep | Read more
The U.S. isn't doing a good job keeping secrets. Think Edward Snowden. But demand for trustworthy IT professionals is strong, especially if they want to work for Amazon Web Services.
Patrick Thibodeau | 04 Sep | Read more
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith Friday said that the company would move ahead with its lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking permission to release more information on demands Microsoft receives from the National Security Agency and others for Internet user data.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 30 Aug | Read more
For all the privacy concerns raised by Edward Snowden's leaks about government data collection activities, the U.S. is not alone or even always the most demanding when it comes to law enforcement requests for customer data from Internet service providers.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 30 Aug | Read more
Ballmer's replacement will have to build trust overseas, especially after report Germany advised to not use Windows 8 because of backdoor
Antone Gonsalves | 24 Aug | Read more
With court documents showing Constitution violated, public opinion also turning as people see something 'deeply wrong is happening with the NSA'
Antone Gonsalves | 22 Aug | Read more
Newly declassified documents released by the Obama Administration show that the National Security Agency collected phone and Internet data on tens of thousands of Americans.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 Aug | Read more