A federal judge has refused to dismiss a recorded confession and computer evidence collected in the case of Mathew Keys, a former Reuters employee accused of conspiring with members of Anonymous to hack his former employer.
One of President Barack Obama’s biggest legacies will be his healthcare plan. Another, thanks to the Edward Snowden leaks, is domestic spying.
But Obama has another legacy, one not so obvious, and which won’t be felt until years after he’s left …
Last week Edward Snowden, speaking from Moscow to the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, issued a call-to-arms to the tech community to step up its game and devise solutions to secure online communications and activity from snoops. To …
We already knew that the NSA has weaponized the internet, enabling it to “shoot” exploits at anyone it desires. But the Edward Snowden slides and story published yesterday at The Intercept convey a wealth of new detailed information about the …
Spy tools, whether designed by intelligence agencies, cyber crooks or internet creeps, can turn your camera on without illuminating the indicator light. Online tutorials even instruct neophyte hackers on how to hijack your webcam. Fortunately, WIRED is here with a …
The NSA doesn’t just hack foreign computers. It also piggybacks on the work of professional for-profit hackers, taking over entire networks of already-hacked machines and using them for their own purposes.
It’s refreshing to hear Dianne Feinstein express outrage over warrantless and illegal government spying, But sadly to say, there’s some dark humor of sorts here, too. Feinstein is perhaps the biggest congressional cheerleader of domestic surveillance, including the telephone snooping …
Last week, it occurred to me that I might start monitoring the local Wi-Fi environment to determine how often the Apple Bus really comes by. My wife guessed 10 times a day. I’d have said 20. After a week of …
With lawmakers slow to pass legislation curbing NSA surveillance, it’s up to the technology community to step in and devise solutions that will better protect online communications from snoops, said Edward Snowden, speaking today from Moscow at the South by …
Matt Gunn, an independent model aircraft or drone operator in Cleveland, says the recent court ruling barring the Federal Aviation Administration from enforcing rules prohibiting the commercial use of drones amounts to “mud being flung in their face.” Gunn is …
Federal prosecutors in Texas have moved to drop all but one of the 13 charges against internet agitator, Barrett Brown, a self-identified former spokesman for Anonymous.
A non-disclosure agreement that police departments around the country have been signing for years with the maker of a cell-phone spy tool explicitly prohibits the law enforcement agencies from telling anyone, including other government bodies, about their use of the …
The President Barack Obama administration accused Sprint today of overcharging the government more than $21 million in wiretapping expenses.
Police in Florida used a controversial cellphone tracking gadget without telling a judge because they felt bound by a non-disclosure agreement with the manufacturer of the device, according to newly obtained court evidence.
Google-owned YouTube is urging a federal appeals court to allow it to re-post an inflammatory trailer from its popular video-sharing site, arguing that the media giant and the public “will suffer irreparable harm to their First Amendment and other constitutional …
The President Barack Obama administration has received 28 proposals from corporations with ideas for managing the NSA’s massive database of U.S. phone call metadata. But don’t expect to see the proposals any time soon. The government says it won’t release …
In an atmosphere of distrust and anger, the CEO of security giant RSA took the stage this morning to address recent controversies around his company’s work with the NSA, and its years-long support of an algorithm suspected of containing an …
Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has gone offline, apparently after losing hundreds of millions of dollars due to a years-long hacking effort that went unnoticed by the company.
Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a single spurious “goto” in one part of Apple’s authentication code that accidentally bypasses …
AT&T released its first “Transparency Report” this week concerning U.S. government surveillance of its customers. But to those familiar with the leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Ma Bell’s numbers come up short by more than 80 million spied-upon customers. …
Following the leaks of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the U.S. government has released a treasure trove of classified documents in a bid to quell public dissent. But answers to key questions about NSA surveillance have been blacked out from these …
Communications, navigation, battlefield logistics, precision munitions—all of these depend on complete and unfettered access to the spectrum, territory that must be vigilantly defended from enemy combatants. Yet despite the importance of this crucial resource, America’s grip on the spectrum has …
Far more than a translation of its English counterpart, Arabic Wikipedia has 690,000 registered users who’ve authored more than 240,000 articles. Many of the articles reflect a Middle Eastern worldview entirely different from the Western one, and their writers navigate …
A clearly frustrated U.S. intelligence chief complained today that America’s adversaries are changing the way they communicate electronically in the wake of the leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Security scanners used by airports around the country to detect weapons and other banned items in carryon luggage can be manipulated to conceal items from screeners, according to two researchers who examined the system.
After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco …
Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyber spying operation that has been alive since at least 2007 and uses techniques and code that surpass any nation-state spyware previously spotted in the wild.
In legal circles, the biggest “off the board” bet going is whether the Supreme Court this term will decide the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk telephone metadata program, and resolve the issue once and for all. Virtually every expert agrees …
The government contested a former Stanford University student’s assertion that she was wrongly placed on a no-fly list for seven years in court despite knowing an FBI official put her on the list by mistake because he checked the “wrong …
The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.
