Governments must be held to higher standards than private enterprises, a former deputy head of the US National Security Agency has said as he backs user behaviour monitoring technology that might have helped his employer catch Edward Snowden before his infamous leaks.
David Braue | 14 Aug | Read more
Last week was all about WannaCry, the ransomware that piggybacked on a Windows exploit that had originally been developed by the US National Security Agency and was exposed to the world during the recent WikiLeaks hacking dump.
David Braue | 22 May | Read more
Australia is apparently setting the gold standard when it comes to aggregating personal information on its citizens, with the UK said to be using the controversial Australian data-retention regime as a model for its own legislation. There's no telling how that will be received by the US National Security Agency, which was arguing that its own online surveillance programs are legal and carefully scrutinised by other parts of the government.
David Braue | 02 Dec | Read more
Chinese networking giant Huawei hit out at the US National Security Agency (NSA) this weekend following claims that the organisation hacked into its email servers five years ago.
A special hacking unit of the U.S. National Security Agency intercepts deliveries of new computer equipment en route to plant spyware, according to a report on Sunday from Der Spiegel, a German publication.
Jeremy Kirk | 30 Dec | Read more