This week was particularly revelatory in the world of cyber security: the U.S. formally charged five Chinese military officials with cybertheft, eBay announced it was hacked, and it turns out the National Security Agency has been listening to some countries in Central America while the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to try to curb the NSA's practices.
WikiLeaks is at it again. The transparency-touting organization has announced that it will soon reveal the name of a country that the NSA records every single phone call in despite warnings that it could lead to innocent deaths.
Is that Facebook? Or is the U.S. National Security Agency pretending to be Facebook to install malware on your computer? It turns out, that's a question you might have to ask yourself.
South by Southwest Interactive has always been seen as the hip place to go to learn about the next big Silicon Valley startup, but the tone and focus has changed a little this year. The festival is toning down the "trendy" and enlarging its international focus, along with taking on some serious issues in technology.
The National Security Agency is working with the Joint Special Operations Command's High Value Targeting task force to track targets using their cellphones and blow them away using drones, according to a new report.
Snowden and the man who broke his story state that The Independent must have been fed the info on a Middle East spy base by none other than their own U.K. government.
