After the Feds seized the surveillance records, US Marshals then moved the physical records 320 miles away, meaning the ACLU wouldn’t be able to learn how, and how extensively, police use snooping devices.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Mobile malware, Gameover, CryptoLocker, and SSL/TLS holes – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
How long has mobile malware been around? Is it really game over for Gameover and CryptoLocker? Which cryptographic security libraries need patching? It’ll only take a minute to find out…
Snowden, one year on, and it’s still not 1984
It’s a year since Snowden lifted the lid on PRISM and everything that followed. We’ve spent a year looking for Big Brother while we uploaded more of our lives into the care of giant media corporations and pointed an ever increasing battery of cameras at each other.
What we learned from Edward Snowden
Tapping the conversations of world leaders, facial recognition, PRISM, Tempura, Upstream, XKeyscore… Whether you think Snowden’s a hero or a traitor, there’s no denying that revelations about widespread spying by the NSA keep pouring out. One year on from the first leak, we thought we’d take a look back at what we’ve learned.
Medical centre staff post woman’s STD diagnosis on Facebook
A woman whose medical record was posted to a Facebook group named “Team No Hoes” is suing the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, two employees and a former boyfriend who allegedly talked the healthcare workers into posting the screenshot. 
Latest OpenSSL flaws can lead to information leakage, code execution and DoS
Only two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL captured global headlines we have another critical update for OpenSSL fixing 6 new flaws.
Google says half of email is sent unencrypted
It’s been an encryption-intensive start to the week – good news for all of us who are wary of snooping. 
Facebook’s new audio feature won’t snoop on us, it says
Listening in and identifying your TV and music is opt-in only, Facebook’s security head honcho said, and no, he wouldn’t want it in his pocket either if it was recording everything going on around him.
Fight internet surveillance, Reset The Net
5 June 2014 is Reset The Net. It’s a day to take back our privacy by using strong encryption whenever and wherever we can and insisting that the organisations we rely upon do too.
Naked Security now available in HTTPS
You can now browse your favourite computer security news website and make it more difficult for the NSA to spy on you at the same time!