
The magazine Wired has published a document purported to be the operational security manual for the Islamic State: a 34-page PDF file uncovered by the Combating Terrorism Center at the West Point military academy, and somewhat loosely translated from Arabic.
by John Hayward23 Nov 2015, 5:20 PM PST0

The long-running debate over privacy vs. government surveillance – which is the high-tech iteration of the ancient struggle between liberty and security – gained new urgency after the Paris terror attack. Intelligence officials across the Western world are worried that terrorists have found new means of coordinating their efforts that cannot be monitored.
by John Hayward19 Nov 2015, 9:15 AM PST0

There have been several high-profile accusations that material leaked by Edward Snowden helped ISIS terrorists conceal their operations from Western intelligence agencies, including planning and execution of the horrific terrorist attack in Paris on Friday.
by John Hayward16 Nov 2015, 10:37 AM PST0

Speaking at a global security forum hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CIA Director John Brennan warned that the Islamic State is probably planning more attacks like the massacre in Paris.
by John Hayward16 Nov 2015, 9:14 AM PST0

Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter published an interview with Edward Snowden Friday in which Snowden described how he wound up stuck in Russia and why being an exile is not what it used to be.
by John Sexton6 Nov 2015, 8:27 PM PST0

The UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, unveiled the government’s controversial Draft Investigatory Powers Bill in Parliament today. Dubbed ‘The Snooper’s Charter’ by critics, the bill will overhaul the surveillance powers of police and security services.
by Allum Bokhari4 Nov 2015, 10:30 AM PST0

Signal, an app for encrypting texts and calls on smartphones, is coming to Android phones.
by Allum Bokhari3 Nov 2015, 8:39 AM PST0

British police have used anti-terrorism laws to seize the laptop of a young journalist at Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship evening news programme.
by Allum Bokhari29 Oct 2015, 6:43 AM PST0

At the first Democratic Presidential Debate, we learned there is at least one consensus belief among all the presidential candidates: whistleblower Edward Snowden should be punished.
by Ferenstein Wire14 Oct 2015, 8:08 AM PST0

LOS ANGELES — The first annual Politicon event on Saturday featured a live webcast discussion with fugitive NSA informant Edward Snowden and far-left political satirist group the Yes Men.
by Adelle Nazarian11 Oct 2015, 10:57 AM PST0

LOS ANGELES — Politicon, a bipartisan gathering of political celebrities, activists and entertainers, has announced that it will feature a “special live video feed interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden” on Saturday at 11 a.m.
by Adelle Nazarian9 Oct 2015, 2:44 PM PST0

(Ferenstein Wire)—The technology industry is scrambling to understand how it will continue business in Europe, after the continent’s high court struck down a privacy agreement that protected U.S.-based companies operating abroad, known as Safe Harbor.
by Ferenstein Wire7 Oct 2015, 11:01 PM PST0

In an interview that reportedly took “three months of often covert communications” to arrange, the BBC interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow about his life as a fugitive from American justice.
by John Hayward6 Oct 2015, 6:47 PM PST0

BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG, Oct 6 – A system enabling data transfers from the European Union to the United States by thousands of companies is invalid, the highest European Union court said on Tuesday in a landmark ruling that will leave firms scrambling to
by Reuters6 Oct 2015, 3:26 AM PST0

Notorious Internet jokester Jon Hendren pulled a fast one on HLN Wednesday when he was called in to ostensibly defend controversial NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
by Daniel Nussbaum30 Sep 2015, 3:20 PM PST0

One of the worst of Barack Obama’s many bad ideas is surrendering control of Internet domains to a shadowy multi-national organization, a move undertaken largely out of embarrassment over Edward Snowden’s exposure of NSA surveillance techniques. Under Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution, only Congress has the authority to transfer control of such government property, so Obama’s attempt to give it away to foreign bodies without congressional consent would be unconstitutional.
by John Hayward29 Sep 2015, 7:13 AM PST0

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to play former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden in an Oliver Stone biopic early next year – and in an interview with the Guardian, the actor details a secret meeting he had with Snowden in Russia to prepare for the role.
by Daniel Nussbaum18 Sep 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

The end of another “red line” farce draws nigh, as China waves aside the Obama administration’s bluster about cyberwar sanctions and claims to be more victimized by hackers than the United States is.
by John Hayward8 Sep 2015, 8:44 PM PST0

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden held forth on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal during an interview with Al-Jazeera on Thursday.
by John Hayward4 Sep 2015, 1:08 PM PST0

For years, security-minded politicians have been saying that U.S. spy agencies and the private sector need to have a better working relationship to stop terrorism. But if the arm-in-arm relationship between communications giant AT&T and the National Security Agency is any indication, that relationship is already in full bloom. Worse, the government has been paying AT&T millions to supply the info.
by Warner Todd Huston16 Aug 2015, 7:46 PM PST0

According to a new poll, only 33% of Americans would support a presidential pardon for rogue National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who faces espionage charges. Of the poll respondents, 53% support these charges, while only 26% were opposed to a federal prosecution.
by John Hayward13 Aug 2015, 1:15 PM PST0

Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, has opened up another front on which to fight the bureaucrats of the European Union. He has revealed himself to be one of those helping WikiLeaks crowd-source €100,000 for the release of the secretive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment
by Sarkis Zeronian12 Aug 2015, 5:05 AM PST0

Japanese officials are concerned over the recent WikiLeaks exposure of American spying.
by John Hayward5 Aug 2015, 12:46 PM PST0

Hillary Clinton is already in trouble over the email story and that trouble could get a lot worse.
by John Sexton3 Aug 2015, 2:43 PM PST0

Germany’s domestic intelligence chief has been defending the halted treason charges which were controversially brought against Netzpolitik reporters. In what was seen as an attack on press freedom in the post-Snowden world Netzpolitik was to be investigated to ensure “the fight
by Sarkis Zeronian2 Aug 2015, 8:44 AM PST0