Congress allows rule permitting mass hacking by government to take effect

WASHINGTON — In a defeat for privacy advocates, Senate leaders rebuffed a last-ditch effort by a bipartisan group of senators Wednesday Continue reading →

AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal

Hemisphere is a secretive program run by AT&T that searches trillions of call records and analyzes cellular data to determine Continue reading →

Former Employees Say Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence

Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific Continue reading →

The NSA hack proves Apple was right to fight the FBI

After the unprecedented breach of hacking tools and exploits stolen from the US National Security Agency’s elite hacking unit, some Continue reading →

The Supreme Court Expands FBI Hacking Powers

The U.S. Supreme Court approved a new rule Thursday allowing federal judges to issue warrants that target computers outside their Continue reading →

Appeals court rules that NSA phone surveillance program is illegal

A federal appeals court has ruled that the National Security Agency program to collect information on billions of telephone calls Continue reading →

‘Regin’ malware described as ‘groundbreaking and almost peerless’

Experts don’t know where it came from, and aren’t quite sure what it does. But they do know this: a Continue reading →

Verizon, AT&T tracking their users with ‘supercookies’

Verizon and AT&T have been quietly tracking the Internet activity of more than 100 million cellular customers with what critics have Continue reading →