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US National Security Agency used Heartbleed security flaw to spy on internet users - 11 Apr 2014 - Computing News - 0 views

www.computing.co.uk/...-flaw-to-spy-on-internet-users

national security agency spy ITGS privacy heartbleed SSL

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  • dr tech on 12 Apr 14
     
    The US National Security Agency (NSA) knew of the Heartbleed flaw in the widely used OpenSSL security tool and exploited it for year - instead of blowing the whistle so that the patch could be flawed."
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UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...-secret-intelligence-nsa-prism

PRISM ITGS anonymity security governmentandpolitics

shared by dr tech on 08 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 08 Jun 13
     
    "UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world's biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America's top spy agency, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal."
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Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ms-frankenalgos-program-danger

ITGS algorithm people and machines code reliability

shared by dr tech on 31 Aug 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Aug 18
     
    ""In some ways we've lost agency. When programs pass into code and code passes into algorithms and then algorithms start to create new algorithms, it gets farther and farther from human agency. Software is released into a code universe which no one can fully understand.""
dr tech

India Will Ask the U.S. Government for Help Spying on Its Citizens - 0 views

mashable.com/...india-us-spying

ITGS india u s government spying surveillance

shared by dr tech on 05 Dec 13 - Cached
  • While governments in many countries, including India, have reacted with anger to this year’s revelations from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that the United States spied on foreign officials, several have also been increasing Internet surveillance at home
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      dr tech on 05 Dec 13
       
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  • dr tech on 05 Dec 13
     
    "India has started using a system that allows security agencies and income tax officials to directly intercept phone calls and emails without any court or legislative oversight, Reuters reported this summer."
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Wendy M Grossman on the heavy-handed tactics picture agencies use when pursuing payment | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...internet-photography

ITGS technology intellectualproperty

shared by dr tech on 12 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Mar 15
     
    "But one church in Lichfield, Staffordshire, faced a different fundraising problem: to pay a £6,000 bill demanded for photographs used on its website. The case came to the attention of Gavin Drake, the communications director for the diocese's 600 churches. In creating the church's website, a volunteer had included a couple of images sourced from Getty, a large picture agency, without paying for them. A couple of months later, Getty sent the church a demand for £6,000."
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Facial-Recognition App Can Help Identify Missing Children - 0 views

mashable.com/...chinese-missing-kids-app

ITGS app children facial ai CCTV

shared by dr tech on 01 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Jun 13
     
    "Advertising agency JWT China and missing children site Baby Back Home have jointly developed an app in China that utilizes facial-recognition technology to help identify missing or kidnapped kids, Creativity Online reported. The organizations say that, with a population reaching approximately 1.4 billion, everyone can be a search volunteer."
dr tech

'Boundless Informant' Is a Secret NSA Tool to Data-Mine the World - 0 views

mashable.com/...boundless-informant-nsa

PRISM ITGS anonymity security governmentandpolitics nsa tool data mining

shared by dr tech on 09 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Jun 13
     
    "The NSA has a tool that records and analyzes all the flow of data that the spy agency collects around the world. Think of it as a global data-mining software that details exactly how much intelligence, and of what type, has been collected from every country in the world. It's aptly called "Boundless Informant." "
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With These New Digital Tools, Citizens Can Help Police Solve Crimes | Technology on GOOD - 0 views

www.good.is/...s-can-help-police-solve-crimes

tools citizens police crimes technology ITGS metadata

shared by dr tech on 28 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Apr 13
     
    As our connectivity increases, we're seeing a growing number of cases of law enforcement using social media and other digital tools to help solve crimes. A study from Accenture, a global management and consulting agency, showed that 72 percent of respondent citizens believe that social media can help in crime investigations and in the prosecution of offenders.
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MarsJoke ransomware threatens to permanently encrypt files if a ransom is not paid - 0 views

www.neowin.net/...-files-if-a-ransom-is-not-paid

ITGS malware security control system ransomware

shared by dr tech on 29 Sep 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 29 Sep 16
     
    "A new strain of ransomware has been targeting government agencies and educational institutions in the United States, through scam emails that pretend to be something important. The malware, dubbed as 'MarsJoke' by Proofpoint security researchers, reportedly began a large-scale email campaign which distributed the cryptomalware last week. The developers are sending out emails which seems to be masked as a message from an airline company."
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UK spy agencies store sensitive data on millions of innocent people, with no safeguards from abuse / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...y-agencies-store-sensitiv.html

ITGS store data millions spy policiesandstandards security anonymity privacy

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  • dr tech on 23 Apr 16
     
    "The document dump reveals that the spies hold data on millions of Britons who are suspected of no wrongdoing, including records on dead people who cannot possibly pose a threat to national security. These records, which include "private medical records, your correspondence with your doctor or lawyer, even what petitions you have signed, your financial data, and commercial activities," are safeguarded through self-regulating systems that are laughable in their tragic lack of seriousness. "
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Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...a-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

ITGS surveillance yahoo nsa GCHQ Optic Nerve privacy

shared by dr tech on 28 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Feb 14
     
    "* 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone * Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk * Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'"
dr tech

How the NSA plans to automatically infect "millions" of computers with spyware - Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...he-nsa-plans-to-automatic.html

ITGS nsa plans millions spyware security policiesandstandards politics and government

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  • dr tech on 12 Mar 14
     
    "But TURBINE, which was carried out with other "Five Eyes" spy agencies as part of the NSA's $67.6M "Owning the Net" plan, is intended to automate the infection process, allowing for "millions" of infections at once. "
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Facebook report: governments asked for data on 38,000 users this year | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ebook-government-user-requests

facebook governments technology ITGS

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  • dr tech on 28 Aug 13
     
    "Government agencies around the world demanded access to the information of over 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, and more than half the orders came from the United States, the company said on Tuesday."
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NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-attack-tor-network-encryption

nsa tor security anonymity ITGS

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  • dr tech on 05 Oct 13
     
    "The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself."
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World's leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-theft-worlds-leading-authors

ITGS surveillance privacy globalisation

shared by dr tech on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 Dec 13
     
    "More than 500 of the world's leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed by a new international charter."
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Tomorrow's Surveillance: Four Technologies The NSA Will Use to Spy on You - Soon - 0 views

www.makeuseof.com/...nsa-will-using-next-five-years

ITGS surveillance technologies nsa security politics and government

shared by dr tech on 02 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 02 Jun 15
     
    "The NSA's plans don't end with collecting your phone records. Here are just a few of the ways the National Security Agency (NSA) will be keeping tabs on you in the world of tomorrow. Prepare to be shocked, amazed, and a little freaked out."
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NSA surveillance: don't underestimate the extraordinary power of metadata | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...illance-metadata-content-obama

nsa surveillance metadata technology ITGS security

shared by dr tech on 23 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Jun 13
     
    "President Obama has reassured US citizens that 'nobody is listening to your calls', but it's not the content of conversations that intelligence agencies crave"
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Government to close Becta | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...becta-government-closure

government ITGS privacy equalityofaccess education

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  • Mcdoogleh CDKEY on 29 Sep 10
     
    The Treasury's decision to close the education ICT agency Becta by November, cutting £80m from this financial year's government budget, has dismayed its 240 staff - and some teachers who found its work especially useful because it provided a central platform for standardising on technology.
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NSA Building Computer to Break 'Nearly Every Kind of Encryption' [REPORT] - 0 views

mashable.com/...nsa-quantum-computer

ITGS nsa encryption security policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 04 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Jan 14
     
    "The agency has invested nearly $80 million to build a computer that could break "nearly every kind of encryption," according to a Washington Post report published online Thursday. Based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the Post reports the NSA is racing to build a "cryptologically useful quantum computer" research program called "Penetrating Hard Targets.""
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