US tax collection agency thinks ‘it does not need warrant to access citizens’ emails’
ANI The US tax collection agency, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), believes it can read American citizens’ emails without a warrant, newly released documents by the firm have revealed. According to the documents, the IRS believes ‘as long as a person has stored email in a cloud service like Google Mail, and as long as those [...]
Read More →‘Secretbook’ – New Tool Encodes Hidden Messages in Facebook Photos
RiaN Maybe Facebook doesn’t know everything. A new tool lets anyone using Google’s Chrome internet browser embed secret messages in photos uploaded to the sprawling social network, keeping them out of reach of outsiders, including governments and Facebook itself. Say hello to Secretbook, a browser extension created by a 21-year-old Oxford University computer science student [...]
Read More →Assaults On the Web: Undersea Internet Cables Compromised & Recent DDoS Attacks
By Susanne Posel | Occupy Corporatism Three persons have been arrested in connection with conspiring to cut undersea cables connecting the internet to Alexandria, Egypt. Colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali, spokesman for the Egyptian military explained that this conspiracy was discovered that would have effected internet service, reduced download speeds and pointed out the vulnerability of [...]
Read More →The Largest DDoS Attack in History Slows Internet & Takes Down Websites
By Susanne Posel | Occupy Corporatism Perpetrated by a group of angry hackers, the Spamhaus Project has become the target an internet wide distributed denial of service (DDoS) operation has slowed to flow of information on the web, impeding operations for average websites across the digital highway. When Spamhaus added CyberBunker to their blacklist for [...]
Read More →FBI Gmail Spying a ‘Top Priority,’ Report Says
FBI Gmail spying will be at the forefront of the agency’s efforts, a report has claimed this week. FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann said for 2013, it should be a “top priority.”
Read More →Senate Approves Internet Sales Tax by 3-to-1 Margin
By Activist Post The U.S. Senate voted yesterday to approve the concept of an Internet sales tax by an overwhelming 75-to-24 margin. The vote was largely symbolic and non-binding, but its support has some wanting to bypass the committee process for the easy passage of the Marketplace Fairness Act, according to The Verge. The law, which opponents more [...]
Read More →New Xbox Reportedly Won’t Let You Play (Unless It Can Spy On You)
By Adan Salazar | Infowars People throughout the world could soon be voluntarily outfitting their homes with indefinitely active cameras, infrared sensors and microphones if they purchase Microsoft’s new Xbox video game console, slated for release sometime next year. According to leaked screen captures, the new console, codenamed “Durango,” will be “Always On, Always Connected,” [...]
Read More →‘Homeland’ To Scan Emails, Monitor Web Traffic
Reuters | NBC The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country’s private, civilian-run infrastructure. As a result, more private sector employees than ever before, including those at big banks, utilities and key transportation companies, will have their [...]
Read More →Visualizing Google’s Transparency Report, Part 1: What Countries Are Asking Google For User Data?
By Katitza Rodriguez | EFF This post was written by Katitza Rodriguez, EFF and Olivia Solis, SHARE Defense EFF is excited to announce this, a visual collaboration with SHARE Defense, a new international advocacy group created by the Balkan Share Foundation this year with the goal of engaging in public policy debates concerning digital rights [...]
Read More →Stop CISPA: A Week of Action to Oppose Broad Cybersecurity Legislation
By Adi Kamdar | EFF A coalition of Internet advocacy organizations and individuals are launching a week of action to combat the CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. Viewing CISPA as one of the greatest threats to Internet users since SOPA, the coalition intends to leverage popular outrage to oppose the dangerously broad [...]
Read More →The Internet is a surveillance state
By Bruce Schneier | CNN I’m going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks. Two: Hector Monsegur, one of the leaders [...]
Read More →Finally, Some Limit to Electronic Searches at the Border
By Hanni Fakhoury | EFF In an important new decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals created the first explicit limits on the government’s ability to search electronic devices at the border. The court’s decision in United States v. Cotterman (PDF) establishes that government agents must have “reasonable suspicion” before conducting a forensic examination of a computer at [...]
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