New U.S. cybersecurity standards: Will they do enough?
The voluntary standards — which met with some criticism — are an attempt to address U.S. vulnerabilities to attack.
The voluntary standards — which met with some criticism — are an attempt to address U.S. vulnerabilities to attack.
Angry Bird and other apps under surveillance? Tech companies will now be able to release data on government requests, but critics say the numbers give people only limited sense of the extent of government surveillance of social media.
In independent congressional review board took a hard line on NSA data-collection programs in a report released Thursday.
In his year-end press conference, President Obama defended NSA surveillance as vital, but acknowledged that public trust needs to be restored and changes are necessary.
Retailers like Target would likely have passed a number of cyber-security audits for their systems, experts say, but cyber thieves’ sophistication is growing to surmount improved defenses.
A panel convened by President Obama to look into NSA surveillance practices has made 46 recommendations, pleasing some civil libertarians. One cyber expert calls it a ‘mixture.’
Edward Snowden needs a place to go. If it’s true that he still has as many as 1.5 million unreleased top-secret NSA documents, that could be a big bargaining chip.
The utility of Google cookies in cyber exploitation and espionage comes as no surprise to some. NSA officials maintain their practices are practical and legal.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies asked wireless carriers for ‘cell tower data dumps’ at least 9,000 times in 2012, as part of their investigative work, a US senator reports. His push is to buttress privacy protections for cellphone users in America.
The NSA’s CO-TRAVELER program collects 5 billion cellphone records a day in an effort to find terrorists overseas. Data from Americans are collected ‘incidentally.’
‘China has not reduced its cyber intrusions against the United States despite recent public exposure of Chinese cyber espionage in technical detail,’ a commission set up by Congress to monitor US-China ties reported.
Angered by reports of US surveillance efforts in France, as well as spying on state leaders in Germany and Italy, the EU is considering a tough new law, which could put US firms in a sticky spot.
The NSA snags contact information as it flows through telecommunications servers and other systems overseas, according to a Washington Post report. Not surprisingly, civil libertarians are unhappy with the new revelations.
Glitches in the Obamacare website are well known, but some cyber experts are also raising red flags about the site’s security. They point to a variety of concerns.
This latest document release marks a bid by the Obama administration, after massive leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, to demonstrate transparency on surveillance policy and privacy safeguards.
A political hacktivist group that has the backing of the Syrian president apparently hit The New York Times, along with Twitter and The Huffington Post UK edition.
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was convicted of 31 racketeering charges, which he barely contested. He also failed to show that his personal code barred him from killing women or serving as an FBI informant, a tie that battered the FBI’s reputation.
XKeyscore is apparently a tool the NSA uses to sift through massive amounts of data. Critics say it allows the NSA to dip into people’s ‘most private thoughts’ – a claim key lawmakers reject.
The Obama administration unveiled three secret documents Wednesday that appear to confirm details of surveillance programs leaked by Edward Snowden, who worked for the NSA.
Stephen ‘the Rifleman’ Flemmi, in a third day of testimony, told of four murders he said Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger carried out himself, three at the same South Boston home.
By Mark Clayton
Feb. 13, 2014