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China cyber attacks could shut U.S. infrastructure: NSA

WASHINGTON: China and "probably one or two" other countries have the ability to invade and possibly shut down computer systems of U.S. power utilities, aviation networks and financial companies, Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said on Thursday.

Shocking: US spies on mobile phones from the sky

SAN FRANCISCO: US justice officials are scooping up mobile phone data from unwitting Americans as part of a sophisticated airborne surveillance program designed to catch criminals, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

UK spy chief demands more access to Twitter, Facebook

LONDON: Twitter and Facebook are so important to militant groups that the U.S. technology giants should give security services greater access to allow Western governments to foil attacks, the head of Britain's eavesdropping agency said.

North Korea says imprisoned American tried to become ‘second Snowden’

SEOUL: An American recently sentenced to six years hard labor by a North Korean court pretended to have secret U.S. information and was deliberately arrested in a bid to become famous and meet U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae in a North Korean prison, state media said on Saturday.

US NSA chief tells Iraq’s tech-savvy ISIL: ‘I’m watching’

WASHINGTON: While U.S. military leaders appeared before Congress to outline their strategy to fight Islamic State militants on the battlefield, the National Security Agency chief said on Tuesday he was watching the media-savvy group's cyber capabilities.

China to make own operating system to take on Microsoft, Google

SHANGHAI: China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Apple Inc, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

Russia demands user ID for public Wifi access

MOSCOW: Russia further tightened its control of the Internet on Friday, requiring people using public Wifi hotspots provide identification, a policy that prompted anger from bloggers and confusion among telecom operators on how it would work.

Secure phones, apps in market after Snowden leaks

SAN FRANCISCO: Public concerns about the U.S. government's secretive surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden have spawned a slew of encryption products and privacy services that aim to make electronic spying more difficult.

Thousands join action against privacy violation by Facebook

VIENNA: More than 17,000 people have signed up to join an Austrian law student's class action against Facebook over the social media group's alleged violations of its users' privacy, the student said on Tuesday.

China to bar Symantec, Kaspersky anti-virus in procurement

BOSTON: The state-controlled People's Daily reported the news early Sunday on its English Twitter feed, saying that the government's procurement agency "has excluded Symantec & Kaspersky" from a list of security software suppliers.

Israel spied on Kerry last year: German Magazine

BERLIN: German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that Israel and at least one other intelligence agency were listening in on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's unsecured phone calls last year when he was holding nearly daily negotiations for peace with various leaders in the Middle East.

Privacy Abuses: Student starts global action against Facebook

VIENNA: Austrian law student Max Schrems appealed to a billion Facebook users around the world on Friday to join a class-action lawsuit against Facebook's alleged violations of its users' privacy, stepping up a years-long data-protection campaign.

USB devices, mouse, keyboard can be used for hacking

BOSTON: USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher revealed on Thursday.

Personal data ‘unsafe’ in Apple iPhone

SAN FRANCISCO: Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees, the company acknowledged this week.

Snowden seeks to develop anti-surveillance technologies

NEW YORK: Edward Snowden, a former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of major U.S. surveillance programs, called on supporters at a hacking conference to spur development of easy-to-use technologies to subvert government surveillance programs around the globe.

U.S. judge OKs warrant for Google user’s emails

NEW YORK: A federal judge in New York has granted prosecutors access to a Gmail user's emails as part of a criminal probe, in a decision that could fan the debate over how aggressively the government may pursue data if doing so may invade people's privacy.

Apple iPhone a danger to China national security

BEIJING: Chinese state media on Friday branded Apple Inc's iPhone a threat to national security because of the smartphone's ability to track and time-stamp user locations.

PPP formally lodges protest with US over NSA spying

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) while strongly protesting against its spying by United States National Security Agency (NSA) has formally sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador in Pakistan Richard Olson, ARY News reported.

NSA spying on PPP ‘unacceptable’: Khursheed Shah

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) stalwart and opposition leader in Pakistan’s National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Shah expressed displeasure over the recent revelation that America’s...

Snowden still has ‘doomsday’ collection of classified material

Washington/London: U.S and British intelligence officials say they are concerned about a “doomsday” collection of highly classified heavily encrypted materials they believe former National...
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