For the people expecting President Barack Obama to announce sweeping changes to the NSA’s surveillance programs, his speech on Friday likely was a major disappointment. Obama laid out some new controls and limits for some of the more controversial programs, specifically the phone metadata collection system, but much of the speech focused on why the […]
While most malware campaigns are aimed at the masses, attackers often save their best stuff for high-value targets, as a recent campaign targeting American journalists and activists from the EFF shows.
President Obama announced reforms to the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program, but maintains it is vital and must continue.
President Obama has been mostly silent regarding the recent surveillance revelations, preferring to let NSA officials and lawmakers speak, but that’s set to change Friday when he is due to speak publicly about proposed reforms for the NSA.
A vulnerability in Starbucks’ mobile app could be putting coffee drinkers’ information – including their usernames, email addresses and passwords – at risk.
In a mostly friendly and non-confrontational hearing on Tuesday, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent a couple of hours talking to members of the White House-appointed NSA review board about the extent of the agency’s surveillance and the panel’s recommendations for reform
In the weeks and months leading up to 9/11, the National Security Agency had been working on a new information-gathering and analysis system known as THINTHREAD, a system that was built in-house and was meant to replace the uncountable number of stand-alone collection systems and attendant databases the agency had. Its architects believed it had […]
CREDO Mobile, the company thought to be at the center of a suit challenging the legality of National Security Letters, published the mobile industry’s first transparency report.
A security tutorial demonstrating how to enable important security and privacy settings on Twitter.
A relatively small but influential list of speakers for the upcoming RSA Conference have decided to withdraw from the show in the wake of stories implicating RSA as a co-conspirator in the NSA’s surveillance efforts.
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