The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future 9/11. During a House Intelligence Committee hearing on June 18, NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander said, “Let me start by saying that I would much rather... Read more
Tech executives press Barack Obama to reform NSA surveillance practices
Technology company executives have pressed US President Barack Obama to rein in the US government’s electronic spying after a court dealt a blow to the administration’s surveillance practices. Top executives from Apple, Google, Yahoo! , Netflix, Comcast, AT&T, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and other companies met privately for more than... Read more
13 defendants pleaded guilty of an attack on PayPal’s Website
In December 2010, PayPal suspends its Wikileaks’ accounts in order to stop the anti-secrecy website from accessing and receiving donations. This decision was made in response to the publication of classified documents by Wikileaks. Finding the decision unfair, the “Anonymous” coordinated and executed a denial-of-service attacks against PayPal under... Read more
Holes in Victoria Government Cyber Security
Following the announcement by IT Minister, 2 weeks ago, of the cyber-security strategy for the Victorian government to be directed by Alastair McGibbon, a report showed last week that the Victorian Government’s IT systems are totally unprepared for cyber-attacks; the state doesn’t have the procedures in place to identify... Read more
Rebuilding trust after spying revelations by Snowden
The relationship between EU and US is cracked. After the spying revelations released by American former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, European Commission responded to the UE concerns about the US’s data collection programs. Viviane Reding, the European Commission vice-president, deplored the American mass surveillance and said that “Massive... Read more
