Amazon Web Services has received a $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, according to a report from Nextgov. Codenamed “WildandStormy,” the contract is said to be… Read More
Today is the final day for public security updates for Windows 7. It is also the day when, as security writer Brian Krebs reports, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)… Read More
You wake up, drink a cup of Colombian coffee, check a phone made of rare earth metals, and drive a car with parts from a dozen countries. Everything’s going great… Read More
Days after it leaked hundreds of files documenting CIA hacking practices, WikiLeaks said it will work with tech companies to combat those techniques. The radical transparency organization plans to give… Read More
WikiLeaks has begun publishing thousands of documents it claims to have taken from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence. In what it called the “largest ever publication” of stolen CIA… Read More
The cybersecurity expert who hired Edward Snowden for his last job is laying out his lessons learned – but admits it would have been hard to stop the man who spilled some of the… Read More
How lucky for Yahoo. Michael Rogers, National Security Agency (NSA) director, sits down for an interview and provides the perfect argument against Apple’s well-publicized stance on protecting privacy. Or did… Read More
“I would have come forward sooner.” Edward Snowden, between the awarding of the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award to Citizenfour last night and its premiere on HBO tonight, took part… Read More
Despite lobbying efforts by tech titans, the U.S. Senate has halted the progress of the USA Freedom Act in a 58-42 vote, putting an end to the journey of a… Read More
Microsoft updated its reports on the number of government requests for customer data the company has received, and the numbers show that things haven’t changed much for the company when… Read More
Glenn Greenwald doesn’t mince words. The government is “truly devoted to the elimination of privacy in the digital age,” the lawyer and journalist told a sold-out crowd of 850 at… Read More
In an effort to demonstrate its policy toward government requests for data, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith today detailed a now-public FBI Security Letter that Microsoft successfully blocked late last year.… Read More
When it comes to the generational differences between today’s youth and their parents or grandparents, there are the obvious ones: Fashion, music and slang are just a few. But what’s… Read More
In light of last year’s NSA revelations and more recently the Heartbleed security breach, how government balances the protection of personal information and national security has been a hot topic.… Read More
Gmail users can rest a little bit easier today after Google announced that users sending and receiving email through its service will have their messages encrypted using HTTPS. Most users… Read More
All of a sudden, the Syrian Electronic Army’s attacks on Microsoft have become a lot more than just a minor nuisance. The group of hackers loyal to Syrian President Bashar… Read More
President Obama’s speech last week outlining his plan for reforming the NSA left many in the tech industry wanting much deeper reforms. One of them is Microsoft, which has had its services targeted… Read More
Agents with the U.S. National Security Agency are able to intercept crash reports from specific Microsoft Windows-based machines to better understand how to exploit a computer with spyware, according to… Read More
Security firm RSA took $10 million from the NSA to make a flawed cipher the default in one of its security products, which is used by companies all over the… Read More
While they’re usually fierce competitors, an octet of leading technology companies have banded together to ask the U.S. to take the lead when it comes to ending government surveillance. AOL,… Read More
Microsoft is battening down the hatches when it comes to protecting its customers against government surveillance. In a blog post published tonight, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, laid out the… Read More
According to a new report by the Washington Post, Microsoft is working to encrypt its internal server traffic, following revelations that the NSA might also be targeting its traffic in… Read More
Twitter announced today that it has beefed up the security of its traffic as a way of better protecting its users from dragnet surveillance. Using a technique called “forward secrecy,”… Read More
In a post to Yahoo’s official blog, CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the company plans to have all of its internal server traffic encrypted by the end of Q1 2014.… Read More
Apple released its Report on Government Information Requests today, outlining just how many times different law enforcement agencies around the world have asked the company for data about its customers.… Read More
Security research firm QuarksLab recently dropped a bombshell on iOS users with a presentation at the Hack in the Box conference that described how Apple could read your encrypted iMessages.… Read More
What do people who work in digital security think about the NSA revelations? And how concerned should the rest of us be? Those are a couple of the topics this week… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–When Mark Zuckerberg meets with top House Republicans next week, it seems like the NSA’s spying programs will make up a key component of the agenda. During his conversation… Read More
Back when the NSA’s snooping practices were revealed in June, Microsoft joined fellow tech giants Google and Facebook in asking the U.S. government for more transparency in regard to government requests for national security information. Late… Read More
This is the fourth year of the Privacy Identity Innovation conference, which will draw hundreds of people to Seattle’s Bell Harbor International Conference Center in a few weeks. But looking at… Read More