The Snowden Effect on Privacy Attitudes
Results from a survey by the Pew Research Center demonstrate that consumers' attitudes about commercial and government data collection have shifted post-Snowden.
View ArticleIAB Urges Designers to Make Encryption the Default
The Internet Architecture Board, the body in charge of overseeing the structure of many of the Internet's key standards, has recommended that encryption be the default traffic option for protocols.
View ArticleNSA Official: Support for Compromised Dual EC Algorithm Was ‘Regrettable’
In a new article in an academic math journal, the NSA’s director of research says that the agency’s decision not to withdraw its support of the Dual EC_DRBG random number generator after security...
View ArticleTech Companies, Privacy Advocates Call for NSA Reform
A group of technology companies, non-profits and privacy and human rights organizations have sent a letter to President Barack Obama, the director of national intelligence and a wide range of...
View ArticleNew Coalition Launches Fight Against Patriot Act Section 215
A broad group of civil-rights, technology and political groups from across the spectrum has developed a new initiative to advocate for the repeal of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the part that...
View ArticleCrypto ‘Front Door’ Debate Likely to Go On For Years
SAN FRANCISCO–Encryption is the hot new topic in security at the moment, as it has been any number of times in the last few decades. And, as in the past, the notions of key escrow, mandated legal...
View ArticleNSA Whistleblowers, Civil Liberties Groups Urge Congress to Oppose USA...
Aletter has been sent to members of Congress by a long list of privacy, civil liberties, and human rights organizations asking the legislators to oppose the proposed USA Freedom Act, which would extend...
View ArticleAppeals Court Rules NSA Metadata Collection Not Authorized by Section 215
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the Patriot Act does not authorize the bulk collection of phone records by the NSA. The ruling undermines the key...
View ArticleCourt’s Ruling a ‘Clear Signal’ About Mass Surveillance Programs, Experts Say
The ruling last week by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that the NSA’s years-long bulk collection of phone metadata is illegal is a “clear signal” that courts are moving in the direction of...
View ArticleHouse Vote Slams NSA Records Collection; Senate Next as 215 Deadline Looms
The U.S. House voted 388-88 to end the NSA's bulk collection of phone call metadata business records.
View ArticleRights Groups Call for More Change Two Years After Snowden Revelations Began
It’s been two years now since the first stories about NSA surveillance capabilities began to appear, and the environment has shifted dramatically in that time. Awareness of and resistance to mass...
View ArticleNew Snowden Documents Outline Memos on Expanded Spying of Hackers
A new set of memos uncovered by Edward Snowden and shared with both the New York Times and ProPublica this week reveal how the Obama administration upped its search for hackers and expanded its...
View ArticleFacebook Hires Ex-Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos
Facebook has hired away the top security executive at Yahoo, Alex Stamos, to become the company’s new CSO. Stamos said Wednesday that he is joining Facebook because he believes the company is in the...
View ArticleNSA Says It Will End Access to 215 Records in November
The National Security Agency says that once its legal authority to conduct Section 215 bulk telephone surveillance ends on Nov. 29, its analysts no longer will be allowed to access the database that...
View ArticleWhite House Says No Thanks to Snowden Pardon Petition
It’s been more than two years since Edward Snowden became a name as familiar to the millions of people who have no idea what the NSA actually does it is to the power players in Washington. In that time...
View ArticleFeasible ‘Going Dark’ Crypto Solution Nowhere to be Found
At Black Hat, cryptographer Matthew Green and attorney James Denaro broke down the Going Dark crypto issue, including the struggle to find a feasible solution going forward.
View ArticleFeasible ‘Going Dark’ Crypto Solution Nowhere to be Found
At Black Hat, cryptographer Matthew Green and attorney James Denaro broke down the Going Dark crypto issue, including the struggle to find a feasible solution going forward.
View ArticleAT&T Facilitated NSA Surveillance Efforts, Reports
Published reports say that AT&T was the National Security Agency's primary telecommunications partner and facilitated much of its surveillance efforts around telephone and Internet traffic...
View ArticleGovernment Releases Policy on Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure
After more than a year of legal wrangling, the federal government has agreed to hand over its policy on vulnerability use and disclosure. The government had said that the policy was classified and too...
View ArticleHTTPS Available as Opt-In for Blogspot
Google announced that it has made HTTPS available as an opt-in for its Blogspot blog-publishing service.
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