Washington Post: Cole said the programs are legal and overseen by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. He also said the programs “achieved the right balance” between protecting Americans’ safety and their privacy. “Both programs are conducted under laws passed by Congress,” Cole said. The 11 judges on the secret FISA court that approves surveillance “are far […]

Oakland surveillance center raises concerns: As Oakland is rocked by renewed street protests and national attention focuses on government monitoring of phone and e-mail records, city officials are considering a federally funded project to funnel information from surveillance cameras, license-plate readers, gunshot detectors and other devices into a law enforcement-run center. The Domain Awareness Center, a […]

Mobile security threat in fake apps: False Android applications are becoming much more common in official marketplaces. When it comes to mobile security, malware and other related issues can appear in some of the places that you’d least expect them, including many seemingly harmless apps that can bring about a world of problems to their users. […]

Gov’t to nurture cyber security manpower: The government said Thursday it plans to almost triple the number of software security experts to 200 by the end of this year to better cope with rising cyber attacks. The plan came after a string of cyber attacks against the websites of the government agencies and major public and […]

Why Companies Keep Getting Blind-Sided by Risk: You’d think. Yet three quarters of the 195 large companies surveyed recently by APQC got hit by an unexpected major supply chain disruption in the last 24 months. We are talking here about an unforeseen event involving a physical asset owned by the enterprise or a third party. Major […]

Responding to government legal demands for customer data: In short, when governments seek information from Microsoft relating to customers, we strive to be principled, limited in what we disclose, and committed to transparency. Put together, all of this adds up to the following across all of our software and services: Microsoft does not provide any government […]

The NSA’s Surveillance Is Unconstitutional: Due largely to unauthorized leaks, we now know that the National Security Agency has seized from private companies voluminous data on the phone and Internet usage of all U.S. citizens. We’ve also learned that the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved the constitutionality of these seizures in secret proceedings […]

Truecaller Downplays Syrian Electronic Army Hack: On Wednesday, the Syrian Electronic Army reported hacking into the databases of Truecaller, a global collaborative phone directory. The hackers claimed to have gained access to tons of data, including information that could allow them to access the social media accounts of Truecaller customers. Truecaller has issued a statement on […]

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Global Phone Directory Truecaller: After taking a break to work on their website, hackers of the Syrian Electronic Army are back. Their latest victim is Truecaller, the world’s largest collaborative phone directory. “Sorry @Truecaller, we needed your database, thank you for it,” the hackers wrote on Twitter. The Syrian Electronic Army has […]

College students first to be successfully prosecuted here for hacking: TWO students have admitted hacking Fine Gael’s website – in the weeks leading up to the 2011 general election – as a “stunt” to embarrass the party. Computer experts Darren Martyn (21) from Cloonbeggin, Claregalway, Galway, and 20-year-old Donncha O Cearrbhail from The Ring, Birr, Co. […]