Jeff Kosseff, Meena Harris, and Caleb Skeath have a really nice recap of the year. It begins: Data Breaches Studies show increase. Amidst a flurry of high-profile breaches during 2014, several studies confirmed that data breaches as a whole have risen significantly over the past few years. The California Attorney General released a study showing…
Category: Govt
Anonymous Companies Fighting National Security Letters Back Twitter’s NSL Battle
EFF writes: Two companies who must remain anonymous about their fight against secret government demands for information known as national security letters (NSLs) are backing Twitter’s lawsuit over its rights to publish information about NSLs it may have received. The companies—a telecom and an Internet company—are represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Twitter filed…
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Kaspersky
Joseph Menn reports: The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives. That long-sought and closely…
Death of the Dark Web? DARPA’s Memex search engine allows Tor tracking
Anthony Cuthbertson reports: A search engine more powerful than Google has been developed by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), capable of finding results within dark web networks such as Tor. The Memex project was ostensibly developed for uncovering sex-trafficking rings, however the platform can be used by law enforcement agencies to uncover…