Dec 13
Gmail just announced a change to the way it handles images in your emails by default. Now, all images in your messages will load automatically, which makes it possible for some people and companies to know when you’ve opened and …
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Dec 11
The Washington Post is reporting that the NSA has a simple way to work out if you’re worth hacking or not: it just reads your Google cookies.
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Dec 09
The major US telecoms delivered at minimum 1.1 million cell phone records to law enforcement at all levels of government in 2012. The records include voicemail and text content. The telecoms earned $26 million from the transactions. Many of the fulfilled information requests legally required no warrant, no subpoena, and no probable cause. These and […]
Dec 09
Network security company FireEye has reported a coordinated malware attack on five European foreign ministries. The attack took place last August just prior to the G20 Summit in September. It was achieved by sending the ministries email attachments bearing file names pertaining to the primary topic of the summit: military options in Syria. Once downloaded, […]
Dec 09
This week a former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational Technology Division has spoken up on a single case which has subsequently revealed a lot of pointed spying abilities of the institution itself. Speaking up on terror suspect “Mo”, Marcus Thomas has let it be known that they’ve been able to break into (some) computers […]
Dec 09
For the NSA, you real life isn’t enough. No, as well as reading your emails and monitoring your phone calls, its agents have been deployed inside MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and Second Life, as well as Xbox Live.
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Dec 09
Eight of the largest companies in tech have joined forces to battle the NSA’s spying, demanding sweeping reforms of the US Government’s surveillance policies.
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Dec 07
The FBI has been using malware as a means to hunt down certain suspects, as exemplified in the case of a man who has been making bomb threats since June 2012, reports the Washington Post. Some of the malware was a surveillance program planted onto the suspect’s computer when he signed into his Yahoo account, […]
Dec 06
Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera "without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording" for years now. What in the hell is going on? What kind of world do we live in?
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Dec 06
Cthulhu as branding: Yesterday, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office launched a classified satellite called NROL-39, destined to carry out surveillance and security work in orbit. The official patch, above, paints a pretty vivid picture of its mission. [NASA Spaceflight; Quartz]
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