Staffing the next DNI is especially important for Trump, given his limited experience in espionage and national security…It’s a tough job, since the Intelligence Community is a diverse mix of top secret bureaucracies which don’t always play well together. The IC is made up of 16 different spy agencies—17 if you count the amply-sized Office […]
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iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says…
Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification…
The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight…
They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City. It would have no windows, 29 floors with three basement levels, and enough food to last 1,500 people two weeks in the event of […]
Twitter Purges Dozens Of “Alt-Right” Accounts…
In a move dubbed as “corporate Stalinism” by one of those impacted, overnight Twitter again suspended dozens of accounts associated with the alt-right movement, the same day the social media service said it would crack down on hate speech…
British Hacker Lauri Love Will Be Extradited to Face U.S. Charges…
British citizen Lauri Love will be sent to the US for prosecution over hacking allegations after Tory Home Secretary Amber Rudd signed an extradition order, despite concerns over his mental and physical health…
AT&T And NASA To Build National Drone Tracking System…
The largest telecommunications company in the world wants to serve as a watchdog for all drones in the United States — and in the process, play a major role in supervising the national airspace…
Twitter Finally Answers Critics, Adding Tools to Curb Abuse and Harassment…
Del Harvey sees too many of the same kind of tweet. It contains a screenshot of a message from Twitter’s user support, saying that a post someone reported as abusive on the site doesn’t violate Twitter rules. It’s often accompanied by commentary: “Seriously?”…
French Government Creates Illegal Database on over 60 Million Citizens…
By setting up a single database centralizing information on the entire French population behind their backs, France’s Socialist Party (PS) government is giving the state vast repressive powers. Coming amid the state of emergency, it constitutes a fundamental threat to democratic rights…
FBI Ran 23 Child Porn Sites in Sting Operation…
The FBI reportedly ran 23 child pornography websites to try to ensnare users, according to an affidavit from the agency acquired by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)…
CIA Will Place Its CREST Database Online…
The database, known as CREST (for CIA Records Search Tool), contains more than 11 million pages of historical Agency records that have already been declassified and approved for public release.
This Story Just Gets Weirder: The Very Strange Tale of a Dating Site’s Attacks on Wikileaks Founder Assange…
For an online dating site, toddandclare.com seems really good at cloak-and-dagger stuff. Disconnected phones. Mystery websites. Actions that ricochet around the globe. But the attention grabber is the Houston-based company’s target: Julian Assange…
The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance…
It was a powerful piece of technology created for an important customer. The Medusa system, named after the mythical Greek monster with snakes instead of hair, had one main purpose: to vacuum up vast quantities of internet data at an astonishing speed…
Electronic Surveillance Requests Approved by DC Federal Courts Up 500% Since 2011…
Mostly secret law enforcement requests to federal courts in the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia for use of electronic surveillance in domestic criminal cases have increased fivefold in the last five years…
Banker Deaths and WikiLeaks Deaths Have a Common Thread…
Now it has emerged that two of the top lawyers representing Assange, John Jones in London and Michael Ratner in New York, died within less than a month of each other this year. And, Assange’s closest confidant in London and a Director of WikiLeaks, Gavin Macfadyen, died just yesterday…
The Yandex Domain Problem OR Who In Russian Intelligence Doesn’t Speak Russian?…
On March 22, 2016 William “Billy” Rhinehart, a regional field director at the Democratic National Committee, received an email from Google warning him that someone tried to access his account and that he should immediately change his password. He complied…
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Hacktivist Crew Claims it Launched Last Week’s DDoS Mega-Attack…
A group called New World Hackers has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack that rendered significant portions of the web unreachable last Friday…
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A Denial-of-Service Attack Shut Down Major Websites Across the Internet…
Denial-of-service attacks beginning in the morning and stretching into the afternoon shut down major websites across the internet today, as DNS service company Dyn was hit by at least three apparently targeted strikes…
How Could NSA Contractor Harold Martin Have Been Taking Home Classified Info For 20 Years Without NSA Noticing?…
A few weeks back, we wrote about the arrest of Harold Martin, an NSA contractor working at Booz Allen, for apparently taking “highly classified information” from the NSA and storing it electronically and physically in his home…
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Hardware Capable of Level 4 Autonomy…
A validation period of unspecified length will be required before the fully autonomous features become available. Here’s a sentence in the press release that’s worth noting…
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Platforms Like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP Are Making it Harder, Not Easier, to Publish to the Web…
Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s…
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