Tag Archives: Cybercrime

  • Russia acting against Biden; China opposes Trump: US intel 9 August 2020 | Eric Tucker and Deb Riechmann This post has 3 comments

    US intelligence officials believe that Russia is using a variety of measures to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of the November election and that individuals linked to the Kremlin are boosting Trump's reelection. ...

  • Yahoo suffers world’s biggest hack affecting 1 billion users 15 December 2016 | Michael Liedtke This post has no comments yet

    Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than one billion user accounts, breaking the company's own humiliating record for the biggest secur ...

  • NSA tracks mobile phones daily around the world 5 December 2013 | Daniel De Luce This post has no comments yet

    The National Security Agency is collecting billions of records on the location of mobile phones around the world, The Washington Post reported, citing documents from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. ...

  • US intercepts Google, Yahoo to collect personal data 31 October 2013 This post has no comments yet

    The US National Security Agency has tapped into key communications links from Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. ...

  • Exposed: NSA’s war on encryption 8 September 2013 | Pulkit Chandna This post has no comments yet

    Who owns the Internet? That is one question humanity hasn’t been able to answer with any degree of certainty hitherto and things are unlikely to change anytime soon. ...

  • US fumes as Russia grants Snowden asylum 2 August 2013 | Stuart Williams This post has no comments yet

    Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden stepped out of the Moscow airport where he was marooned for over five weeks, after Russia granted him one year's asylum, sparking fury in Washington. ...

  • Chinese cybercrime is a global ‘menace’: Google CEO 2 February 2013 | James Legge This post has no comments yet

    Google boss Eric Schmidt has branded China the most "sophisticated and prolific" hacker of foreign companies in the world. He says that the country's state-backed cybercrime is a global "menace". ...