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How to Keep the NSA From Spying Through Your Webcam
You already know that laptops, desktop computers, tablets and mobile phones are all at risk of being hacked. But did you know that intruders might use the built-in camera to take surreptitious pictures and videos of you and your surroundings or hijack your microphone to eavesdrop on conversations?
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NSA 'Hijacked' Criminal Botnets To Install Spyware, Leaked Documents Reveal
While U.S. law enforcement agencies have long tried to stamp out networks of compromised computers used by cyber criminals, the National Security Agency has been hijacking the so-called botnets as a resource for spying. The NSA has "co-opted" more than 140,000 computers since August 2007 for the purpose of injecting them with spying software, according to a slide leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by The Intercept news website on Wednesday.
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SOPA may be returning in a much sneakier, worse fashion
Two years ago, major websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit blacked out their services as a form of digital protest against SOPA, the infamous Stop Online Piracy Act that leveraged law enforcement to prevent copyright infringement. While preventing piracy isn’t exactly an ignoble gesture, SOPA would have more or less given copyright holders exhaustive power over anything that arguably infringes on those rights...
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Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored
Intelligence agency ASIO is using the Snowden leaks to bolster its case for laws forcing Australian telecommunications companies to store certain types of customers' internet and telephone data for a period of what some law enforcement agencies would like to be two years.
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The NSA is currently recording an entire country's phone calls
According to leaked documents obtained by The Washington Post, the NSA currently has the capability to record 100% of a country's phone calls, enabling playback of any individual call for up to 30 days. The voice interception tool, dubbed MYSTIC, was launched in 2009 and became fully operational in 2011.
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US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists
The senior lawyer for the National Security Agency stated unequivocally on Wednesday that US technology companies were fully aware of the surveillance agency’s widespread collection of data, contradicting months of angry denials from the firms.
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Tech Giants Knew About Prism All Along, the NSA's Top Lawyer Says
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of one of the internet's largest data-mining companies, called President Obama to lecture him on privacy and surveillance. It was great diversionary theater, apparently. Today, the National Security Agency's General Counsel, Rajesh De, said that Silicon Valley's tech giants actually knew about the PRISM program all along.
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The NSA, invited to TED, takes a swipe at Snowden
Two days after Snowden made a surprising appearance at TED in Vancouver, the conference is giving the "other side" a chance to weigh in. NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett made an appearance this morning via video link from Fort Meade, Maryland. He answered 30 minutes of questions in an interview with TED curator Chris Anderson, which was reported by Wired UK, Forbes, and the BBC, among other outlets.
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Orange shares all its call data with France's intelligence agency, according to new Snowden leak
Another day, another round of troubling surveillance news. In a twist, though, today's nugget has less to do with the US or the NSA but rather, France's central intelligence agency, the DGSE. According to a leak by Edward Snowden to the French paper Le Monde, Orange, the country's leading telecom, has been willingly sharing all of its call data with the agency.
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Inside the NSA’s Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators
Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order – and this has turned them into unwitting targets of the National Security Agency for simply doing their jobs. According to a secret document provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the agency tracks down the private email and Facebook accounts of system administrators (or sys admins, as they are often called), before hacking their computers to gain access to the networks they control.
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This Is How the NSA Is Trying to Win Over the Media
In an new PR push, the NSA sent Mashable and other media organizations a glossy pamphlet to set the record straight on the agency's mission.
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The NSA is burning down the web, but what if we rebuilt a spy-proof internet?
David Byrne: To realize what we've given away, imagine going totally offline. Better yet, believe in what a truly secure online life might look like
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Ex-US leader 'hand-writes letters'
Former US President Jimmy Carter has said he hand-writes letters to foreign and US leaders in an effort to evade what he described as pervasive US electronic surveillance. Mr Carter, 89, told the Associated Press he had "no doubt" the US monitored and recorded "almost every telephone call" and email. His humanitarian efforts bring him in contact with a range of foreign and US political leaders.
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NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander says future Snowden leaks could lead to deaths
The data that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden holds could, if released, lead to deaths, the agency's outgoing director says. Gen. Keith Alexander said in an interview aired Tuesday on "Special Report with Bret Baier" that the possibility that more information coming from Snowden could cost people their lives represents his "greatest concern."
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NSA gathered intelligence on 122 heads of state, German weekly’s report claims
The US National Security Agency's vast eavesdropping programmes amassed more than 300 reports on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Der Spiegel reported on Saturday, citing information leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
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Snowden to Receive Truth-Telling Prize
The Ridenhour prize for truth-telling will be given to Edward J. Snowden and Laura Poitras, the filmmaker and journalist who helped Mr. Snowden disclose his trove of documents on government surveillance. The award, named for the Vietnam veteran who helped expose the My Lai massacre and later became an investigative journalist, is expected to be announced on Monday morning.
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Snowden Speaks: A Vanity Fair Exclusive
Snowden’s extensive response is part of a 20,000-word narrative in Vanity Fair’s May issue, by special correspondent Bryan Burrough and contributing editors Suzanna Andrews and Sarah Ellison. The article is the first comprehensive account—bolstered by interviews with dozens of key players—providing an inside look at how a geeky dropout from the Maryland suburbs found himself alone in a Hong Kong hotel room, releasing some of America’s most carefully guarded secrets to the world.
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The Real Threat From The Heartbleed Security Flaw Is The NSA
Heartbleed, the enormous security bug that could affect up to two-thirds of the internet, has left more than 500,000 websites exposed to attackers. And while many are worried their information was left vulnerable to criminal hackers, one security adviser believes the National Security Agency could well have been the true beneficiary of the flaw.
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Say it isn't so! NSA exploited Heartbleed bug for years
The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.
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US seizing tax refunds of children over parents' debt?!
The US is going through old records and can now seize tax refunds of the children of people it overpaid on Social Security.
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