As if dealing with the continuing drama of the WannaCry global ransomware attack was not enough, the original group behind the leak of National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools has announced it will…
Banning encryption won’t help, and probably isn’t possible anyway.
The Guardian and The Washington Post have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their work in bringing to light documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. It is fashionable…
It seems hardly a week goes by without a major cyber security flaw exposed that could be exploited across millions of internet and mobile connected devices. This week it was the Internet Explorer browser’s…
A massive malware attack was launched on Friday, affecting at least 75,000 computers in 99 countries. Computers running Microsoft Windows were infected with “WanaCrypt0r 2.0 or WannaCry” ransomware. Once…
With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
In a further development of the PRISM story, the source of the leaks has been revealed to be 29 year old Edward Snowden who was a systems administrator working for defence contractor Booz Alan Hamilton…
Proposals to toughen the Official Secrets Act are the latest in a long history of efforts designed to prevent government embarrassment.
When political activists are treated like terrorists who plot and kill, state power is misdirected.
The US president’s attack on confidential sources is one of many legal and technological threats to public interest journalism, as a new report shows
