What the other Four Eyes make of Australia’s encryption crackdown
Australia will push “thwarting the encryption of terrorist messaging” at a meeting of the Five Eyes nations in Canada this week.
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How Cisco is trying to keep NSA spies out of its gear
Cisco is working to build the confidence of prospective customers in its products, two years after the NSA spying disclosures seeded doubt, particularly in China.
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NSA will lose access to 'historical' phone surveillence data Nov. 29
The U.S. National Security Agency will lose access to the bulk telephone records data it has collected at the end of November, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced Monday.
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9 ways developers can rebuild trust on the Internet
The Internet is a pit of epistemological chaos. As Peter Steiner posited -- and millions of chuckles peer-reviewed -- in his famous New Yorker cartoon, there's no way to know if you're swapping packets with a dog or the bank that claims to safeguard your money. To make matters worse, Edward Snowden has revealed that the NSA may be squirreling away a copy of some or all of our packets, and given the ease with which it can be done, other countries and a number of rogue hacker groups may very well be following the NSA's lead.
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EXCLUSIVE: FireEye poaches Symantec’s Sean Kopelke
FireEye has continued its aggressive staff acquisition strategy, poaching Symantec A/NZ's senior director, technical sales organisation, Sean Kopelke.
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A smartphone bloatware iconoclast speaks out
Meet Jesse Nunez, an avid opponent of bloatware on smartphones.
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Stallman joins the Internet, talks net neutrality, patents and more
According to Richard Stallman, godfather of the free software movement, Facebook is a "monstrous surveillance engine," tech companies working for patent reform aren't going nearly far enough, and parents must lobby their children's schools to keep data private and provide free software alternatives.
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Sen. Nelson questions use of StingRays for phone surveillance
A U.S. Senator is questioning why the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved of a controversial cell phone surveillance device that both federal and state law enforcement agencies are using to track suspects, often without court orders to do so.
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Has Equation Group hacked your hard drives? You won't be able to tell.
The Equation Group's ability to reprogram hard-drive firmware leaves corporate security pros unable to trust the devices because they can't tell whether disks have been compromised or not.
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There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
Malware intentionally created by the U.S. National Security Agency to infect personal computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) cannot be detected by antivirus programs.
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Equation super cyberspies target Macs with malware, too
The Equation cyberespionage group that used tools similar to those deployed in the past by U.S. intelligence agencies appears to have targeted Macs as well as Windows PCs, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said yesterday.
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Feds to private businesses: Cough up your cyber intelligence
Corporations will be asked to contribute cyber intelligence to a new federal agency tasked with analyzing threat data culled from as many public and private sources as possible in order to more quickly spot attacks and attribute them to the guilty parties.
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After the Snowden leaks, 700M move to avoid NSA spying
An international <a href="https://www.cigionline.org/internet-survey">survey of Internet users</a> has found that more than 39% have taken steps to protect their online privacy and security as a result of spying revelations by one-time NSA employee Edward Snowden.
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NSA spy program targets mobile networks worldwide
The NSA has conducted a covert campaign to intercept internal communications of operators and trade groups in order to infiltrate mobile networks worldwide, according to the latest revelations from documents supplied by Edward Snowden.
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Why datacentres can be massive, but not gigantic
The IT industry has long abused words, and will label almost any new product as innovative and disruptive. Data center developers, especially those who write the headlines about data centers, are particularly bad.
