NSA

Ive lived through a few coups. Theyre insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score. The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-…

Malware scanners can protect your devices from malicious software, but what about malicious hardware? Implanting covert spy chips could give a bad actor unlimited access to your data, which is why Bloomberg Business’ SuperMicro report last year was so worryin…

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found that the FBI may have violated the rights of potentially millions of Americans including its own agents and informants by improperly searching through information obtained by the National Security Agencys ma…

The US National Security Agency (NSA) is warning admins to patch a set of months-old security bugs that have recently come under active attack. The NSA's bulletin, issued earlier this week, says that state-sponsored hacking groups are now actively targeting …

Australian politics are a revolting mess of unstable governments dominated by xenophobic, climate-denying far-right oligarchs, and the only check on their power is the fact that Australian governments are so riven by internal strife and unhinged authoritarian…

In brief: For at least a year, the FBI had conducted unauthorized searches of US citizens via an NSA database. Last year, the secret court that oversees FISA applications ruled that the agency violated the law and the Fourth Amendment in its accessing of that…

The FBI routinely misused a database, gathered by the NSA with the specific purpose of searching for foreign intelligence threats, by searching it for everything from vetting to spying on relatives. In doing so, it not only violated the law and the US consti…

Two speakers were censored at the Australian Information Security Association's annual conference this week in Melbourne. Thomas Drake, former NSA employee and whistleblower, was scheduled to give a talk on the golden age of surveillance, both government and …

The NSA database included both "upstream" and "downstream" (better known as PRISM) surveillance of electronic communications collected without a warrant under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In some cases, the database swept u…

Last month, a developer called Axi0mx released an Iphone crack called Checkm8, which attacks a defect in the Ios bootrom, a low-level piece of code that has not been successfully attacked since 2010. The bootrom is read-only, making its defects effectively un…