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Fugitive former US security contractor Edward Snowden on Tuesday hailed as "historic" efforts to end the bulk collection of Americans' phone records, while urging...
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We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it.
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Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers were prosecuted over a 2024 cyberattack targeting Transport for London (TfL).
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Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100...
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NetNut rented access to millions of compromised devices, allowing cybercriminals and nation-state actors to mask their identities during attacks.
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The US Senate passed landmark legislation Tuesday that ends the government's bulk telephone data dragnet, reining in the most controversial surveillance program since the...
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The US Senate on Tuesday advanced a landmark measure that ends the government's bulk data collection of Americans' phone records, while reauthorizing other surveillance...
Privacy
The US Senate failed Sunday to reach a deal that would prevent key counterterror provisions from expiring at midnight, after Senator Rand Paul blocked...
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CIA chief John Brennan warned Sunday that allowing vital surveillance programs to expire could increase terror threats, as the US Senate convened for a...
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Crucial national security provisions appeared likely to expire midnight Sunday as Senator Rand Paul vowed to block any last-minute votes to extend or reform...
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With a key law underpinning US bulk surveillance programs set to expire, the future appears murky for the hotly contested data sweep efforts led...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Belgium has launched an investigation into claims of widespread espionage by Germany, which is accused of helping the US spy on Berlin's closest allies...
Mobile & Wireless
The US National Security Agency developed plans to hack into data links to app stores operated by Google and Samsung to plant spyware on...
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Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan where US special forces killed the al-Qaeda leader, according to...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to end the NSA's dragnet collection of telephone data from millions of Americans, a controversial program revealed...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
APT28, the notorious cyber espionage group that is believed to be sponsored by the Russian government, is planning to attack various financial institutions from...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The US intelligence agency NSA asked its German partner service BND to spy on the European country's engineering and technology giant Siemens, a German...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Law enforcement authorities in the United States on Friday indicted and arrested two individuals suspected of developing, marketing and selling a piece of software...
Privacy
The United States expressed concern Friday over reports China has used a powerful censorship tool dubbed "Great Cannon" to attack websites around the world.
Privacy
Many US lawmakers and an array of interest groups want to rein in the government's surveillance programs, aware of public backlash that began with...
Privacy
A widening scandal over claims Germany helped the US spy on European targets triggered tensions in Angela Merkel's coalition Tuesday, which analysts said could...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The German intelligence service BND, which is accused of helping the United States spy on EU leaders and companies, had actually "deleted 12,000 requests"...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
European aviation and aeronautics giant Airbus said Thursday it would file a criminal complaint against persons unknown following German media reports it had become...
Privacy
German intelligence services spied on top French officials and the European Commission on behalf of the American spy agency NSA, according to an article...
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