Tag Archives: national security agency
Microsoft is patching a major Windows 10 flaw discovered by the NSA
The IT world is waiting on pins and needles today for a high-profile Microsoft Windows 10 security patch, and now we know why. The US National Security Agency (NSA) discovered a serious flaw in Windows 10 that could expose users to surveillance or se...
The US is suing Edward Snowden over his memoir
The United States is suing whistleblower Edward Snowden over his memoir, Permanent Record. It claims the former Central Intelligence Agency employee and National Security Agency contractor violated non-disclosure agreements with both agencies because...
NSA improperly collected even more call records than we thought
According to documents obtained by the ACLU, the NSA's problem of collecting unauthorized American phone call data is worse than we first thought. Last May, the NSA deleted more than 600 million call records that it collected in error. The agency cla...
Warrantless searches of Americans’ data spiked 28 percent in 2018
An annual transparency report published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shows warrantless searches of Americans' data jumped 28 percent in 2018. According to the report, the National Security Agency (NSA) conducted 9,637 warran...
French President Hollande Protests NSA Surveillance
Operational since 2006, WikiLeaks has been disclosing secrets that depict the true nature of the world politics and schemes running behind closed doors of the world governments and multi-billion...
NSA and GCHQ Attacked Antivirus Software Makers
The purpose of anti-virus and security software is to make sure intruders remain out of a user’s system. However the spy agencies in the UK and US used to work against the anti-virus and security...
German Bundestag is Under Cyber Attack
Hackers attacked the internal data networks of the German Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin. Security experts are currently working on the situation. Bundestag spokes person Ernst...
House Passes USA Freedom Act to Annul NSA Spying Program
National Security Agency aka NSA has become a wide known secret worldwide and what has become even more evident is the NSA’s projects of spying on the general public. Only depicted in movies and...
Millions of Online Shoppers’ Confidential Information Is Visible to Hackers Due to Weak Security
According to the latest reports, millions of Google and Apple subscribers’ confidential details are highly vulnerable to a cyber attack, which has resulted from flawed US encryption standards from...