The Washington Post and the U.S. edition of the Guardian newspaper have each won a public service Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the leaks by Edward Snowden that revealed the extent of surveillance on ordinary citizens.
Nancy Weil | 15 Apr | Read more
A US Army commander's well-intentioned plan to test how easily his staff would fall for phishing scams went farcically wrong last month after recipients believed the email was real and forwarded it as a warning to thousands of staff in other government departments.
John E Dunn | 18 Mar | Read more
Confronted with the latest revelation from the Snowden disclosures, Gen. Keith Alexander says that the NSA obtains data from tech companies only through a court order.
Kenneth Corbin | 31 Oct | Read more
The U.S. National Security Agency has penetrated the main communication links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, giving it access to the accounts of hundreds of millions of people including U.S. residents, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Zach Miners | 30 Oct | 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