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Lawmakers Will Duke It Out Over Surveillance Bill, Section 702, on Thursday…

A bicameral and bipartisan group of lawmakers is threatening to block legislation in the House that would extend a controversial spying program. Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash, joined by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and roughly a dozen other Republicans and Democrats from both chambers of Congress railed against Section 702 of the […]

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Second Developer of WikiLeaks-Inspired “SecureDrop” Commits Suicide at 36…

A second member of a three-man team who created a secure system for whistleblowers to submit information to news outlets has committed suicide at the age of 36, reports the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Software engineer James Dolan took his own life nearly five years to the day after the death of “SecureDrop” co-creator […]

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Julian Assange Secures an Ecuadorian Passport…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted a passport for Ecuador after taking asylum in the country’s London embassy since 2012. The news broke that Assange had received his passport from the government Wednesday, hours after he uploaded a picture of himself wearing an Ecuadorian soccer jersey to his Twitter. The picture led to speculation that […]

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Trump Orders Intelligence Community to Develop Procedures When “Unmasking” Americans…

President Donald Trump ordered late Tuesday that the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats put in place procedures for intelligence and law enforcement officials requesting the unmasking of American citizens and the dissemination of those names in foreign intelligence reports, according to a White House memorandum obtained by this reporter. Trump has given the DNI […]

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Highly Classified Spy Satellite Is a “Total Loss” After SpaceX Mission Fails…

On Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. EST, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the secretive Zuma satellite into space aboard its Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral. However, less than a day later, the WSJ reports that the secretive spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman for the U.S. government military industrial complex, and worth billions “is presumed to […]

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[Guide] How to Protect Your Devices Against Meltdown and Spectre Attacks…

Recently uncovered two huge processor vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre have taken the whole world by storm, while vendors are rushing out to patch the vulnerabilities in its products. The issues apply to all modern processors and affect nearly all operating systems (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, FreeBSD, and more), smartphones and other computing devices […]

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NSA’s Rogers to Retire this Spring…

NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers has decided he will retire this spring, two former U.S. intelligence officials told POLITICO, ending a near four-year tenure bookended by major leaks that rattled the agency. It’s expected that President Donald Trump will nominate Rogers’ successor this month, putting a final Senate confirmation vote two to three months away. […]

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NSA Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of Information Over 20 Years…

A former NSA contractor is expected to plead guilty in what officials say may be the largest heist of intelligence data in U.S. history. On Wednesday, attorneys for Navy veteran Harold Martin filed a guilty plea to one count of willful retention of national defense information. Martin was arrested in august of 2016 when law […]

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Trump’s Attorneys Make Case for Freeing Julian Assange in Legal Filing…

President Donald Trump’s attorneys made a solid case for preemptively pardoning Julian Assange in a motion to dismiss a WikiLeaks-related lawsuit against the Trump campaign. The motion, filed on December 29, was in response to a lawsuit by two Democratic Party donors who allege that the Trump campaign and former adviser Roger Stone conspired with […]

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Trump Draws Attention to Case Against Former Dem IT Aide Imran Awan…

President Trump is drawing attention to the mysterious federal court case against Imran Awan, the former IT aide to a number of congressional Democrats, including former Democratic National Committee chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Whatever happened to this Pakistani guy who worked with the DNC?” the president asked in an interview published Thursday by the New […]

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Chrome to Begin Blocking Ads in February…

Google yesterday announced that it will start blocking ads in its Chrome browser on Feb. 15. Websites that want to avoid the Chrome hammer can either shed several broad categories of online ads or pay a consortium of advertisers, advertising trade associations and technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, to become “certified.” “Starting on […]

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10 Times the Intel Community Violated the Trust of U.S. Citizens, Lawmakers and Allies by Sharyl Attkisson…

No matter where you stand politically, a growing body of facts raises the question: Is there systemic corruption or misfeasance at work inside America’s intelligence agencies? By that, I don’t mean people stealing money. I mean officials who are stealing our privacy — using the tools of intelligence-gathering and law-enforcing, which are meant to protect […]

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Edward Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone to Physically Guard Your Laptop…

Like many other journalists, activists, and software developers I know, I carry my laptop everywhere while I’m traveling. It contains sensitive information; messaging app conversations, email, password databases, encryption keys, unreleased work, web browsers logged into various accounts, and so on. My disk is encrypted, but all it takes to bypass this protection is for […]

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Apple Sued After it Admits to Intentionally Slowing Down Older iPhones…

Apple is being sued after it admitted to slowing down older iPhone models to keep them running longer. On Wednesday, the U.S. technology giant said that it has algorithms in place to help keep an iPhone running at optimal performance if there is an older battery inside that can’t keep up with the required power. […]

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Sen Paul Freezes Trump Nomination Over Section 702 Surveillance…

Sen. Rand Paul is holding up the confirmation of a key national security official over concerns about a government surveillance program, an administration official confirmed to The Daily Beast. He has temporarily blocked John Demers –– currently Boeing’s assistant general counsel –– from being confirmed as Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s powerful National […]

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SpaceX Rocket Launch Spooks Californians…

A flash of bright light over Palm Springs had social media buzzing Friday evening, but don’t fret, it’s not an alien attack. All indications are that the light is coming from the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara. Many in the desert took […]

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Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads…

A few weeks ago, Verizon placed an ad on Facebook to recruit applicants for a unit focused on financial planning and analysis. The ad showed a smiling, millennial-aged woman seated at a computer and promised that new hires could look forward to a rewarding career in which they would be “more than just a number.” […]

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