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The outgoing chief of the National Security Agency told lawmakers he wants to end the controversy over massive surveillance programs to move forward on key defense and cybersecurity issues.
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The United States slapped two extra charges against a British man accused of hacking into thousands of US government computer systems, officials said.
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Boeing has developed a smartphone called Boeing Black geared mainly toward people working in defense and homeland security.
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The United States on Monday declined to comment on claims that its spies are conducting sweeping surveillance of hundreds of prominent Germans, though it did not deny the reports.
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A gang of cyber criminals using a botnet made off with at least $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies, security researchers said.
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US intelligence has stepped up eavesdropping on hundreds of key figures in Germany, including a government minister, after Chancellor Angela Merkel was dropped as a direct target.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that more than a thousand of his personal emails had been hacked, saying unknown parties were trying to slander him as he seeks another term.
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Turkey's spy agency eavesdrops on more than two thousand people, mostly foreigners, the deputy prime minister said as parliament debated controversial new espionage powers.
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Security researchers and others point out that there may be vulnerabilities in the system used by some 450 million WhatsApp users globally.
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A lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses Ethiopia of infecting a US man's computer with the FinSpy spyware as part of a campaign to gather intelligence about those critical of the government.
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AT&T received between zero and 999 requests for customer content under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act affecting between 35,000 and 35,999 accounts.
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AT&T and IBM said they will "combine their analytic platforms, cloud, and security technologies with privacy in mind to gain more insights on data collected from machines in a variety of industries."
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Indonesia described as "mind-boggling" a report that Australian spies targeted Jakarta during a trade dispute with Washington, as a new espionage row erupted during a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Germany plans to beef up its counterintelligence tactics against allied countries in response to revelations of widespread US spying.
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South Korean regulators suspended some operations of three credit card firms as punishment for the unprecedented theft of financial data on more than 20 million people.
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A civilian employee at the National Security Agency has been disciplined after admitting he gave intelligence leaker Edward Snowden his personal encryption details, NBC News reported Thursday.
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Google joined Internet rights activists on Tuesday in a virtual protest aimed at getting US law makers to reign in online snooping.
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The US military is spending millions to build "vanishing" technology that self-destructs on the battlefield to prevent micro-electronic sensors and other devices from falling into enemy hands.
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The National Security Agency collects less than 30 percent of all US phone calls, much less than previously thought, according to media reports.
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Californian leaders want to make it compulsory for smartphones or tablets sold in the state to have built-in "kill switches" to counter the rocketing number of thefts of the devices.
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Government requests for Twitter user information are on the rise, the messaging service said as it released figures while pressing for more transparency.
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Ross William Ulbricht, 29, wearing a blue prison suit for his arraignment, has denied all charges against him that he created and managed Silk Road.
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Incoming US ambassador Max Baucus pledged to build trust with China as fellow senators confirmed him to the post at a time of high tensions in Asia.
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US mass surveillance, restrictive legislation and a wave of global cyberattacks drastically restricted online press freedom during 2013, a New York-based media watchdog warned.
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The NSA likely scoops up data on congressional phone communications, but stopped short of saying whether such action extends to calls made by President Barack Obama.
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