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US firms worried over Internet security: survey
Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)
US businesses in China are increasingly concerned about Internet censorship, data security and air pollution in the world's second-largest economy, according to...
Quantum physics secures new cryptography scheme
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
The way we secure digital transactions could soon change. An international team has demonstrated a form of quantum cryptography that can protect people doing bu...
NSA can record all of a country's phone calls: report
Mar 19, 2014 (AFP)
The National Security Agency has developed a surveillance system that can record 100 percent of a foreign country's telephone calls, The Washington Post reporte...
US Intel program targets email addresses, not keywords
Mar 19, 2014 (AFP)
The US government's clandestine PRISM Internet program exposed by Edward Snowden targets suspect email addresses and phone numbers but does not search for keywo...
NSA can retrieve, replay phone calls: report
Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)
America's National Security Agency has technology that is capable of recording the phone calls of an entire country and replaying them later, a report based on ...
Robot Snowden promises more US spying revelations
Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden emerged from his Russian exile Tuesday in the form of a remotely-controlled robot to promise more sensational reve...
NATO websites targeted in attack claimed by Ukrainian hackers
Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)
NATO said several of its websites were targeted in a "significant" cyber attack on Saturday that was claimed by Ukrainian hackers in what appeared to be the lat...
US defends surveillance before UN rights panel
Mar 14, 2014 (AFP)
The United States defended its controls on mass surveillance on Friday before a UN watchdog body amid a sweeping review of Washington's record on civil and poli...
NSA has 'industrial scale' malware for spying: report
Mar 12, 2014 (AFP)
The National Security Agency has developed malware that allows it to collect data automatically from millions of computers worldwide, a report based on leaked d...
European IT firms seize opportunity from spy scandal
Mar 11, 2014 (AFP)
European IT security firms have flocked to the world's biggest high-tech fair with hopes of benefiting from the fallout from shock revelations of mass US and Br...
Snowden: NSA leaks fueled needed debate on spying
Mar 10, 2014 (AFP)
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he has no regrets over his leaks about mass surveillance programs, saying they sparked a needed public...
After NSA scandal, US intelligence budget declines
Mar 06, 2014 (AFP)
US intelligence agencies will see a five percent drop in funding under a proposed 2015 budget, officials said Thursday, after a year marked by controversy over ...
Demokratia: mocking Russian politics through a videogame
Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)
Buy voters, divert public funds, become an all-powerful tsar: it's all part of the fun in videogame "Demokratia", whose merciless take on Russian politics has m...
Xi wants China to be 'cyber power': Xinhua
Feb 27, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for his country to become a "cyber power," state media reported Thursday after he chaired a meeting of a special group f...
US man sues Ethiopia for cyber snooping
Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)
A lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses Ethiopia of infecting a US man's computer with "spyware" as part of a campaign to gather intelligence about those critical of...
US launches voluntary cybersecurity plan
Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)
The US administration on Wednesday launched a cybersecurity plan which aims to use voluntary collaboration from the private sector to protect critical infrastru...
DARPA awards R and D contract for cyber mission execution to Raytheon
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
Raytheon was awarded a $9.8 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of its Plan X program, which seeks to help U.S. go...
Virtual protest targets US Internet snooping
Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)
Google joined Internet rights activists on Tuesday in a virtual protest aimed at getting US lawmakers to rein in online snooping. The American Civil Liberties U...
Espionage malware may be state-sponsored: researchers
Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)
Security researchers said Monday they discovered cyber-espionage malware which has hit governments and companies in 31 countries and is likely state-sponsored. ...
Internet titans shine light on secret US requests
Feb 03, 2014 (AFP)
Internet titans eager to regain the trust of users for the first time on Monday provided insight into numbers of secret requests for user data made by the US go...
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