NSA Cybersecurity Program, ‘Perfect Citizen,’ Raises Concerns of Illegal Spying on U.S. Citizens

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257243/New-cybersecurity-program-sparks-fears-intelligence-agencies-use-spy-U-S-citizens.html New cybersecurity program designed to protect the power grid sparks fears that intelligence agencies will use it to spy on U.S. citizens By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:53 EST, 4 January 2013 | UPDATED: 12:55 EST, 4 January 2013 America’s top cyberespionage organization is spearheading a shadowy and controversial program developing technology to protect […]

Was Flame super-virus created in the US? Cyber weapon threatening to cripple entire nations has ‘hallmarks of the NSA’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152125/Flame-virus-Cyber-weapon-threatening-cripple-entire-nations-hallmarks-NSA.html Cyber experts: Spyware too sophisticated to have come from anywhere else By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 07:54 EST, 30 May 2012 | UPDATED: 08:06 EST, 30 May 2012 The Flame computer virus which is threatening to bring countries to a standstill is too sophisticated to have been created anywhere other than the U.S., it […]

Your texts, emails and passwords stolen: Google Street View’s data harvesting was NO accident

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137145/Your-texts-emails-passwords-stolen-Google-Street-Views-data-harvesting-NO-accident.html By Emily Anne Epstein PUBLISHED: 20:14 EST, 29 April 2012 | UPDATED: 20:17 EST, 29 April 2012 Google’s collection of sensitive and personal information from unsecured WiFi networks around the world was a deliberate and repeated choice, a new report alleges. The Federal Communications Commission has found that the search engine giant knew that […]

NSA’s huge new $2bn spy center will be used to snoop on ordinary Americans, warn experts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124821/Will-NSAs-new-2bn-spy-center-monitoring-you.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 19:56 EST, 3 April 2012 | UPDATED: 20:30 EST, 3 April 2012 The National Security Agency is facing claims that its new spy centre in Utah will have the power to monitor ordinary Americans. Intelligence expert James Bamford recently interviewed a whistleblower who claimed that the NSA has software […]

Obama’s NSA: Close to knowing all about us

http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/obamas-nsa-close-to-knowing-all-about-us/ Nat Hentoff sounds alarm over more citizens’ info going into databases for future tracking Published: 2 hours ago by Nat Hentoff Not long before Dick Armey – a conservative Republican constitutionalist – retired as House majority leader, he gave a speech expressing his worry about the government’s increasing blanket surveillance over We the People. […]

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 By James Bamford Email AuthorMarch 15, 2012 | 7:24 pm | Categories: Crypto, Cybersecurity, Miscellaneous, NSA, Paranoia, privacy, Surveillance The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to […]

Department of Homeland Security monitors Facebook, Twitter and news sites for ‘situational awareness’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085940/Department-Homeland-Security-monitors-Facebook-Twitter-news-sites-situational-awareness.html By Reuters Reporter Last updated at 11:57 PM on 12th January 2012 The US Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document. A ‘privacy compliance review’ issued by […]