The Day We Fight Back protesters in San Francisco gathered in front of the AT&T building for another protest and to give a retired AT&T technician another chance to have his story heard.
In 1996 Klein stole documents that showed that the NSA was collecting data directly from AT&T’s lines and from within AT&T’s own building.…
The National Security Agency’s sophisticated hacking operations go way beyond using software vulnerabilities to gain access to targeted systems. The agency has a catalog of tools providing NSA analysts access to just about every potential source of data about a target.
In some cases, the NSA has modified the firmware of computers and network hardware, including…
No one except the NSA knows which 50,000 networks it injected data-thieving malware into, so what's a cautious enterprise network manager to do? It's business as usual. However, what's "usual" these days is vigilance - continuous monitoring and analysis to uncover unusual patterns and proactively respond.
"It is important to adopt protective processes that continuously couple…
Several US senators are trying to clamp down on the activities of the National Security Agency through a new bill. Unveiled in Congress on Wednesday, the Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act aims to stop the NSA's bulk collection of the records of US citizens. Specifically, the bill wants to amend certain sections of the Foreign…
Just this week China began taking aim at some of the United States biggest technology providers claiming they are a “terrible security threat.” This comes only a few months after the United States government targeted one of China's largest tech companies Huawei.
Back in March of this year Huawei became a target of scrutiny when suspicions…
The NSA PRISM program was top secret until now. The NSA has a program code named PRISM which lives on the servers of major service providers that include Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, Youtube, Skype ,AOL, and Apple. PRISM has been in operation since 2007 and first partnered with Microsoft. They are aiming to have…