The FBI’s top lawyer is allegedly under investigation for purportedly leaking classified material featured in a Reuters report last year that disclosed a top-secret U.S. surveillance program built by Yahoo Inc, according to several government officials with knowledge of the investigation. The Reuters report stated a software program developed by Yahoo Inc. for the U.S. […]
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WikiLeaks Vault 7 Release: 3 New CIA-Developed Hacking Tools for MacOS & Linux Exposed…
WikiLeaks has just published a new set of classified documents linked to another CIA project, dubbed ‘Imperial,’ which reveals details of at least three CIA-developed hacking tools and implants designed to target computers running Apple Mac OS X and different flavours of Linux operating systems. If you are a regular reader of THN, you must […]
Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aides of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests…
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing top political aides of President Obama of making hundreds of requests during the 2016 presidential race to unmask the names of Americans in intelligence reports, including Trump transition officials. Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, said the […]
Meet Tally: The Grocery Stocking Robot About to Eradicate 1,000’s of Minimum Wage Jobs…
Grocers have a choice: (i) adapt to the technological revolution that is about to transform their industry or (ii) face the same slow death that ultimately claimed the life of Blockbuster. As such, as the the St. Louis Post-Dispatch points out today, the relatively small Midwest grocery store chain of Schnucks has decided to roll […]
Newly Declassified Memos Detail Extent of Improper Obama-Era NSA Spying…
The National Security Agency and FBI violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’ ability to obey their own rules. […]
Adobe to Kill Off Flash by 2020…
Adobe announced it would end support for the multimedia plug-in Flash by the end of 2020. “Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats,” the company wrote […]
The Billion-Dollar Palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google…
We know by now that the internet is a giant playpen, a landscape of toys, distractions and instant gratification, of chirps and squeaks and bright, shiny things – plus, to be sure, ugly, horrid beasties lurking in all the softness – apparently without horizon. Graphics – rounded corners, lower case, Google’s primary colours, Twitter’s birdie, […]
Wisconsin Company to Implant Microchips in Employees…
A Wisconsin company is about to become the first in the U.S. to offer microchip implants to its employees. Yes, you read that right. Microchip implants. “It’s the next thing that’s inevitably going to happen, and we want to be a part of it,” Three Square Market Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby said. The company […]
Feds Seize AlphaBay and Hansa Markets in Major Dark-Web Bust…
It’s finally confirmed — In a coordinated International operation, Europol along with FBI, DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) and Dutch National Police have seized and taken down AlphaBay, one of the largest criminal marketplaces on the Dark Web. But not just AlphaBay, the law enforcement agencies have also seized another illegal dark web market called HANSA, […]
Amazon Considering Allowing Developers Access to Alexa Transcripts…
Amazon’s Echo system was one of the first mass-marketed home assistants available, giving it a head start over other devices such as Google Home. However, while Amazon currently does not allow developers access to everything users say, Google Home does; with Apple moving into the market as well, Amazon cannot afford to lose the lead […]
Ninth Circuit OKs FBI’s National Security Letter Gag Orders…
The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld the FBI’s use of gag orders to muzzle companies about the number and content of national security letters they receive seeking records on their customers without a warrant. A three-judge panel found that because the gag orders serve a compelling government interest — protecting national security — and because […]
Island Leaders Penned in by ‘Five Eyes’ Intelligence Bloc Die Suddenly…
The small Pacific island states may pride themselves on being independent, but they remain under the effective suzerainty of the dominant neo-colonial powers of the region, namely the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. These states, extending from Palau in the western Pacific to Tonga in the south Pacific, are slaved to the domination of […]
Woman Goes in for Cataract Surgery, Has 27 Contact Lenses Removed from Her Eye…
Sometimes, there’s more to old age than meets the eye—sometimes, it’s 27 contact lenses jammed in there, according to a case study published this month in the British Medical Journal. A 67-year-old British woman, complaining of eye discomfort and dryness, was scheduled last November to have routine surgery to remove cataracts when doctors discovered a […]
Ashley Madison to Pay $11.2M to Data Breach Victims…
Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed to an $11.2 Million settlement for roughly 37 million users whose personal details were exposed in a massive data breach two years ago. Though the parent company of Ashley Madison, Ruby Corp., denies any wrongdoing, […]
5 Ways Smart Phones Are Dumbing People Down…
Smart Phone habits by many have been and continue to alarm just about anybody who isn’t tethered to such technology. Truthstream’s Melissa Dykes does a great job highlighting five very meaningful ways these Phones are making people who use them, habitually, less social, more isolated and well, dumber…
How CIA Agents Covertly Steal Data from Hacked Smartphones (Without Internet)…
WikiLeaks has today published the 16th batch of its ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time instead of revealing new malware or hacking tool, the whistleblower organisation has unveiled how CIA operatives stealthy collect and forward stolen data from compromised smartphones. Previously we have reported about several CIA hacking tools, malware and implants used by the […]
Verizon Says Personal Data of 6M Users Leaked Online…
The personal data of 6 million Verizon users has leaked online, the company said Wednesday. “Human error” caused the leak, Verizon told CNN Tech. The error, a misconfigured security setting on a cloud server, made customer phone numbers, names and some PIN codes publicly available online, CNN Tech reported. PIN codes are used to confirm […]
“Show Me Your Papers” Becomes “Open Your Eyes” as Border Sheriffs Expand Iris Surveillance…
Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has found little funding for his “big, beautiful wall.” In the meantime, however, another acquisition promised to deter unauthorized immigrants is coming to the border: iris recognition devices. Thirty-one sheriffs, representing every county along the U.S.-Mexico border, voted unanimously on April 3 to adopt tools that will capture, catalogue, […]
Net Neutrality Blitz Is Coming Courtesy of Amazon, Google, Netflix and Hundreds of Websites…
If the activists’ predictions pan out, Wednesday might see one of the largest digital protests to date. Dozens of websites and apps have joined ranks with consumer advocacy groups, through a “Day of Action,” to publicly protest the plan by the Federal Communications Commission to roll back regulations it placed on Internet service providers in […]
Vault 7: WikiLeaks Unveils CIA Implants That Steal SSH Credentials from Windows & Linux PCs…
WikiLeaks has today published the 15th batch of its ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing two alleged CIA implants that allowed the agency to intercept and exfiltrate SSH (Secure Shell) credentials from targeted Windows and Linux operating systems using different attack vectors. Secure Shell or SSH is a cryptographic network protocol used for remote […]
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