Russian hackers breach DNC computers, steal data on Trump
Hackers were looking for campaign strategies and policies
Michael Kan | 15 Jun | Read more
Hackers were looking for campaign strategies and policies
Michael Kan | 15 Jun | Read more
Hackers targeted an unclassified White House network in recent weeks but did not damage any systems, according to news reports.
John Ribeiro | 29 Oct | Read more
Hackers attacked the infrastructure of Tor, the anonymizing service, earlier this month in an incident that may have compromised a number of hidden services, according to an announcement posted today by the Tor Project's director, Roger Dingledine.
The National Security Agency Monday defended its data collection practices amid revelations that almost 90% of the data it sweeps up involves ordinary Internet users not suspected of crimes.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Jul | Read more
Although NSA officials were not sure about what all documents Edward Snowden took with him, they've changed their tune a few times after some new leak proves their previous proclamations to be false...like when former NSA Chief Keith Alexander admitted to lying about phone surveillance stopping 54 terror plots. Despite a year of NSA officials claiming that Edward Snowden had access to reports about NSA surveillance, but no access to actual surveillance intercepts, that ends up being lie too.
You can't fault a company for trying. The Washington Post reported on Friday that Verizon challenged--albeit unsuccessfully--the NSA's phone call surveillance program.
Nick Mediati | 27 Apr | Read more
Security vendor FireEye today announced it has acquired privately-held endpoint security incident response vendor Mandiant for $106.5 million.
Ellen Messmer | 02 Jan | Read more
The Washington Post's servers were recently broken into by a group of unknown origin that gained access to the user names and passwords of its employees, the paper said on Wednesday.
Zach Miners | 19 Dec | Read more
The browser cookies that online companies use to track Internet customers for targeted advertising are also used by the National Security Agency to track surveillance targets and break into their systems.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 11 Dec | Read more
The National Security Agency on Friday cited a 1981 executive order signed by then-President Ronald Reagan as the authority under which it is collecting location data daily from tens of millions of cell phones around the world.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 Dec | Read more
The U.S. National Security Agency is collecting location data daily from tens of millions of cellphones around the world, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 05 Dec | Read more
Yahoo is amping up its encryption efforts to keep its data out of view from the government's prying eyes. The move comes after allegations that the National Security Agency has been spying on Yahoo and other tech companies without their knowledge.
Jared Newman | 18 Nov | 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
Your online address books are probably being accessed by the government. But you probably kinda knew that anyway.
Evan Dashevsky | 15 Oct | Read more
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers is skeptical that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden could have known to look for all the documents he leaked and been able to circumvent security checks on his own.
Kenneth Corbin | 03 Oct | Read more