Yahoo begins automatic email encryption to thwart govt snooping

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 15:09

Internet giant Yahoo has reportedly started automatic encryption of emails in a bid to thwart government surveillance as revealed in the controversial NSA leaks.

Experts withdraw from Internet security conference

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 03:29

At least eight security researchers or policy experts have withdrawn from an Internet security conference in protest over the conference host`s alleged collaboration with the National Security Agency (NSA).

Obama to consult intelligence leaders, Congress on NSA review

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 03:24

President Barack Obama will hear from intelligence officials and congressional leaders as he nears the final stages of a review over how much to rein in US surveillance practices in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, officials said on Tuesday.

NSA to keep collecting phone records: US spy court

Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 06:49

A secretive US spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American`s telephone records every day, in the midst of dueling decisions in two other federal courts about whether the surveillance program is constitutional.

New York Times, Guardian push for Edward Snowden clemency

Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 12:09

The New York Times and The Guardian have reportedly published editorials calling on US president Barack Obama to make a clemency deal with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and bring him back to the country.

NSA eyes encryption-breaking `quantum` machine

Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 09:29

The US National Security Agency is making strides toward building a "quantum computer" that could break nearly any kind of encryption, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

US phone companies refuse to store data for NSA

Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 19:27

President Barack Obama`s plan to curb the National Security Agency `s mass storage of phone data is already facing resistance.

Mobile carriers failed to use tech fixes to thwart spying: Expert

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 08:44

The world`s mobile phone carriers have failed to implement technology fixes available since 2008 that would have thwarted the National Security Agency`s ability to eavesdrop on many mobile phone calls, a cyber security expert says.

Snowden warns of loss of privacy in Christmas message

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 01:56

Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed details of electronic surveillance by American and British spy services, warned of the dangers posed by a loss of privacy in a message broadcast to Britain on Christmas Day.

Snowden urges end to mass surveillance in UK Christmas message

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 22:59

US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden will call on citizens to work together to end mass surveillance when he delivers a Christmas Day broadcast to Britain, the Channel 4 television network said.

Mission accomplished, says Snowden - Washington Post

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 12:52

Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed extensive details of global electronic surveillance by the US spy agency, said in an interview published on Tuesday that he has accomplished what he set out to do.

NSA spied on Israel, EU official, aid groups: Report

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 01:10

US and British spy agencies eavesdropped on an Israeli prime minister, energy firms, aid agencies and an EU official overseeing anti-trust cases, a media report said on Friday.