Oil Espionage: How the NSA and GCHQ Spied on OPEC
Documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that both America’s National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have infiltrated the computer...
View Article‘Royal Concierge': GCHQ Monitors Hotel Reservations to Track Diplomats
When diplomats travel to international summits, consultations and negotiations on behalf of governments, they generally tend to spend the night at high-end hotels. When they check-in, in addition to a...
View ArticleMass Surveillance Is Big Business: Corporations Are as Good at Spying as...
Data is the currency of surveillance, and it’s not just the NSA and GCHQ looking to cash in. As a newly released cache of documents and presentation materials highlights, the private surveillance...
View ArticleYahoo to encrypt user data as standard in response to NSA allegations
Yahoo has announced that it will encrypt all user information carried in its data centres in response to the accusations that the company gave the US government access to these facilities. CEO Marissa...
View ArticleUS and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons’ personal data
The phone, internet and email records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing have been analysed and stored by America’s National Security Agency under a secret deal that was approved by British...
View ArticleNSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious sleepercell software
The American intelligence service – NSA – infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by former...
View ArticleAngela Merkel’s phone was being listened in on by FIVE foreign powers
German chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile was wire-tapped by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, unnamed German security officials have told Focus magazine. The bugging of the premier’s...
View ArticleJust 1% of Snowden files published says Guardian editor who could now face...
Employees of The Guardian newspaper could face criminal charges over their role in publishing secrets leaked by Edward Snowden, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has signalled. Cressida...
View ArticleNSA and GCHQ spied on Xbox Live and World of Warcraft gamers to counter...
The world of online gaming has been targeted by British and United States intelligence agencies, according to the latest documents revealed by former NSA employee Edward Snowden. Real life-agents are...
View ArticleNSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using “cookies” and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and...
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