As the stunning revelations about the NSA’s collection methods and capabilities continue to mount, two secure email providers that have shut down their services in recent months have formed a new alliance to develop and deploy a new secure email platform that will be resistant to surveillance and back doors. The Dark Mail Alliance, formed […]
A British citizen and a number of co-conspirators are being charged with hacking crimes against a number of government and military networks.
President Barack Obama has initiated a review of the procedures and methods that the NSA uses to collect intelligence at home and overseas to ensure that the agency isn’t overstepping its bounds in phone and Internet data collection.
Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin is introducing a bill that would counteract many of the elements of the US PATRIOT Act that enables the mass collection of data belonging to U.S. Citizens.
Experts hope the upcoming audit of TrueCrypt will concerns over its wonky open source license to rest.
Washington D.C. – Saturday marked the twelve-year anniversary of the initial signing of the controversial US PATRIOT Act, the anti-terrorism bill signed into law shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, sections of which have allegedly given federal law enforcement the authority to surreptitiously collect the digital communications data of millions of innocent U.S. citizens.
The EFF, which has consistently criticized the NSA’s mass metadata and Internet data collection, said that it appears a bill aimed at curtailing surveillance would still ensure the continued collection of Americans’ records.
NIST made public a provisional copy of the government’s cybersecurity framework and says it will accept public comment on the draft for the next 45 days.
Lavabit, the now-shuttered secure email provider that has become something of a rallying point for privacy advocates and security experts in the ongoing NSA surveillance saga, is giving its former users until Thursday night to change their passwords on the service. They will then have a short window to download their email archives and get […]
Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine about the news from the Virus Bulletin 2013 conference, whether the use of zero days is overrated and the collateral damage that can result from cyberwarfare attacks.
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