Tag: NSA

The NSA might have caused the North Korean Sony hack

During the investigations into North Korean that revealed that the country was behind the Sony Entertainment hack that leaked thousands of private documents, emails, social security numbers and employee records to the public, it was discovered that the NSA had already tampered with North Korean computers in 2010. Security officials working on the Sony hack ...

Vysk QS1 the king of privacy

This phone case is the perfect example of how the issue of privacy has become marketable by the savvy and how technology might be what proves people to be convinced of their constitutional rights. Not of course without Edward Snowden and the NSA scandal’s help, of course. Vysk Communication has seized the opportunity and created ...

More secure encryption introduced to Microsoft’s email services

As part of a drive to increase security and better protect user’s private information Microsoft has introduced new encryption for its email services. TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption is now available across Hotmail, Outlook, Live and MSN. In addition to beefing up security for email, the company has also brought Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) encryption ...

The NSA reportedly has the most advanced facial recognition technology

Reports are claiming that the NSA is collecting millions of digital pictures from the internet everyday, including thousands of facial recognition images. Information is very important as we’ve learned from the Edward Snowden trial of leaked National Security Agency documents. The pictures are extracted from e-mails, text messages, social networks, video conferences and other types of communication. The story ...