Slashdot Items Tagged "spying"

Date / Time Story
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:37PM Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users
Friday October 07, 2022 @03:58PM Papa John's Sued For 'Wiretap' Spying on Website Mouse Clicks, Keystrokes
Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:47PM China Orders Companies To Step Up Monitoring of Foreigners In Anti-Spying Campaign
Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:14PM Swiss Report Reveals New Details On CIA Spying Operation
Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:56PM 'Stalkerware' Phone Spying Apps Have Escaped Google's Ad Ban
Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:41AM Massive Spying on Users of Google's Chrome Shows New Security Weakness
Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:34PM Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia
Friday May 17, 2019 @03:34PM Navy Seal's Lawyers Received Emails Embedded With Tracking Software
Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:42AM Vodafone Denies Bloomberg Report on Security Flaws in Huawei Equipment
Tuesday April 30, 2019 @04:37AM Vodafone Says It Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment
Monday April 29, 2019 @07:06PM US Will Rethink Cooperation With Allies Who Use Huawei
Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:23PM --
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:05PM Britain and Germany Will Not Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Spying Evidence
Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:33AM Paul Whelan, American Accused of Spying, is Said to Be Charged in Russia
Friday October 05, 2018 @07:29PM Years After ProPublica Exposed Vizio For Spying On Users, Lawyers Will Make Millions From Lawsuit
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:25PM Researchers Uncover Android Malware With Never-Before-Seen Spying Capabilities
Monday December 11, 2017 @01:13AM German Intelligence Warns of Increased Chinese Cyberspying
Monday December 12, 2016 @07:30PM Uber Employees Used the Platform To Stalk Celebrities and Their Exes, Says Former Employee
Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:32AM The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update]
Monday September 12, 2016 @03:34PM Unredacted User Manuals Of Stingray Device Show How Accessible Surveillance Is
Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:07PM Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued
Friday August 05, 2016 @05:54PM 1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report
Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:21AM Your Battery Status Is Being Used To Track You Online
Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:33AM Russian Leader Putin Signs Controversial 'Big Brother' Law
Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:41PM Micro-Camera Can Be Injected With A Syringe -- May Pose Surveillance Concerns
Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:57PM Advertiser That Tracked Around 100M Phone Users Without Consent Pays $950,000
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @01:43AM Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans Set Up Vote To Expand FBI Spying
Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:55PM Now Advertisers Are Watching Your Emojis On Twitter
Wednesday March 23, 2016 @07:12PM Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:19AM Tor Project Says It Can Quickly Catch Spying Code
Friday March 18, 2016 @10:13PM FTC Warns Android App Developers About Use of Audio-Tracking Code
Monday March 14, 2016 @12:56PM Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Others To Beef Up Encryption
Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:51AM FBI Quietly Changes Its Privacy Rules For Accessing NSA Data On Americans
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @03:40PM Pentagon Admits Deploying Spy Drones Over US, Claims All Were 'Lawful'
Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:14PM Pentagon Office Planning 'Avatar' Fighters and Fighter-Launched Drone Swarms
Friday February 26, 2016 @11:05PM Norway Becomes First Country To Accuse China of Stealing Military Secrets
Friday February 26, 2016 @11:04PM Norway Becomes First NATO Country To Accuse China of Stealing Military Secrets
Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:02PM Carnegie Mellon University Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed By Feds
Friday February 19, 2016 @04:36PM Congressman: Court Order To Decrypt iPhone Has Far-Reaching Implications
Thursday February 18, 2016 @12:26PM Stealing Keys From a Laptop In Another Room — and Offline
Thursday February 04, 2016 @06:01PM Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance
Wednesday February 03, 2016 @05:41PM Former DoE Employee Ensnared By Secret-Selling Sting Pleads Guilty
Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:01AM NSA Hacker Chief Explains How To Keep Him Out of Your System
Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:25AM U.S. Forces Viewed Encrypted Israeli Drone Feeds
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:12PM The Heavily Redacted World of the FBI's Tracking Technology Unit
Friday January 15, 2016 @09:30PM The FBI Feared Communist Infiltration of EPCOT
Thursday January 07, 2016 @10:34AM Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying
Thursday December 17, 2015 @10:07AM Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition)
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:42AM Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years
Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:16AM It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City
Monday November 30, 2015 @08:11AM BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns
Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:11AM Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security)
Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:26AM Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation
Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:40AM Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether
Monday September 28, 2015 @08:28AM Analysis: China-US Hacking Accord Is Tall On Rhetoric, Short On Substance
Tuesday September 01, 2015 @09:22AM FBI: Burning Man Testing Ground For Free Speech, Drugs ... and New Spy Gear
Tuesday August 18, 2015 @08:17AM AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic
Friday July 31, 2015 @06:58PM Questioning the Dispute Over Key Escrow
Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:26AM Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition
Sunday July 12, 2015 @11:15AM Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps
Friday July 10, 2015 @10:03PM Amnesty International Seeks Explanation For 'Absolutely Shocking' Surveillance
Tuesday July 07, 2015 @10:12AM Eric Holder Says DoJ Could Strike Deal With Snowden; Current AG Takes Hard Line
Thursday July 02, 2015 @04:55PM UK Government Illegally Spied On Amnesty International
Friday June 26, 2015 @09:31AM WikiLeaks: NSA Eavesdropped On the Last Three French Presidents
Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:05PM Germany Abandons Investigation Into NSA Spying on Chancellor Merkel
Friday June 12, 2015 @06:10PM SF86 Data Captured In OPM Hack
Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:13AM Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK
Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:35AM US Tech Companies Expected To Lose More Than $35 Billion Over NSA Spying
Sunday May 31, 2015 @08:20PM Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote
Saturday May 23, 2015 @07:45AM NSA-Reform Bill Fails In US Senate
Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:23PM MuckRock FOIA Request Releases Christopher Hitchens' FBI Files
Friday May 08, 2015 @07:53PM Senators Demand CIA Director Admit He Lied About Spying On Senate Computers
Friday May 08, 2015 @06:29PM Dropbox Moves Accounts Outside North America To Ireland
Tuesday May 05, 2015 @11:03AM How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Saturday April 18, 2015 @02:33AM Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA
Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:20PM US Started Keeping Secret Records of International Telephone Calls In 1992
Thursday March 19, 2015 @09:38PM To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses
Thursday March 19, 2015 @12:21AM UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems
Sunday March 15, 2015 @11:35AM Senator: 'Plenty' of Domestic Surveillance We Still Don't Know About
Friday March 13, 2015 @06:35PM Mass Surveillance: Can We Blame It All On the Government?
Wednesday March 11, 2015 @10:37AM New Evidence Strengthens NSA Ties To Equation Group Malware
Tuesday March 10, 2015 @08:25AM Wikimedia Foundation Files Suit Against NSA and DOJ
Saturday March 07, 2015 @04:27PM Fujitsu Tech Can Track Heavily Blurred People In Security Videos
Friday March 06, 2015 @07:36PM GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival
Monday March 02, 2015 @11:07PM NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber Stamp
Thursday February 19, 2015 @07:54PM When It Comes To Spy Gear, Many Police Ignore Public Records Laws
Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:33PM The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill
Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:42AM Some Hackers Unknowingly Gathering Intel For the NSA
Monday February 02, 2015 @02:53PM DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers
Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:19AM Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily
Monday January 26, 2015 @04:48PM Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed
Sunday January 25, 2015 @06:26PM SpaceX, US Air Force Settle Spy Sat Dispute
Monday January 19, 2015 @01:14AM NSA Hack of N. Korea Convinced Obama NK Was Behind Sony Hack
Sunday January 18, 2015 @04:02PM NSA Prepares For Future Techno-Battles By Plotting Network Takedowns
Sunday January 18, 2015 @11:59AM Cuba's Pending Tech Revolution
Sunday January 18, 2015 @01:57AM Feds Operated Yet Another Secret Metadata Database Until 2013
Saturday January 17, 2015 @05:56PM Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications
Friday January 02, 2015 @01:19PM New App Detects Government Stingray Cell Phone Trackers
Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:23AM Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor
Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:53AM US Links North Korea To Sony Hacking
Tuesday December 09, 2014 @09:32AM FISA Court Extends Section 215 Bulk Surveillance For 90 Days
Thursday December 04, 2014 @02:23PM How the NSA Is Spying On Everyone: More Revelations
Sunday November 30, 2014 @11:54PM Probe Into NSA Activity Reveals Germany Spying On Germans
Saturday November 01, 2014 @08:34PM Video Raises Doubts About Attkisson's Claims of Malicious Hacking
Sunday October 12, 2014 @08:52AM Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy
Saturday October 11, 2014 @09:18AM Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs In China and Germany
Thursday October 09, 2014 @09:00AM Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet"
Saturday August 16, 2014 @08:07AM Leaked Documents: GCHQ Made Port-Scanning Entire Countries a Standard Spy Tool
Friday August 15, 2014 @07:02PM How Drones Entered the FBI's Spying Toolkit
Tuesday August 12, 2014 @07:44AM DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists
Monday August 11, 2014 @08:32AM San Jose Police Apologize For Hiding Drone Program, Halts Until Further Review
Saturday August 09, 2014 @06:00PM F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data
Thursday August 07, 2014 @08:34AM Snowden Granted 3 More Years of Russian Residency
Thursday July 31, 2014 @02:09PM CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress
Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:01AM When Spies and Crime-Fighters Squabble Over How They Spy On You
Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:20AM Private Data On iOS Devices Not So Private After All
Friday July 25, 2014 @06:05PM The NSA's New Partner In Spying: Saudi Arabia's Brutal State Police
Tuesday July 01, 2014 @10:08AM Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries
Tuesday June 24, 2014 @11:46AM They're Spying On You: Hacking Team Mobile Malware, Infrastructure Uncovered
Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:49PM How Secret Partners Expand NSA's Surveillance Dragnet
Friday May 30, 2014 @09:18PM German Intelligence Agency Planning To Follow Big NSA Brother On Shoestring
Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:47PM In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism
Thursday May 29, 2014 @12:55PM Iranian Hacker Group Created Fake News Organization For Social Engineering
Thursday May 29, 2014 @10:23AM German Authorities Lack Evidence To Prosecute Anyone For NSA Spying
Monday April 21, 2014 @12:22AM Snowden to Critics: Questioning Putin Has Opened Conversation About Surveillance
Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:16PM Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears
Saturday March 22, 2014 @06:06PM NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code
Sunday March 09, 2014 @08:38PM Snowden Says No One Listened To 10 Attempts To Raise Concerns At NSA
Sunday March 09, 2014 @05:01PM Metadata and the Intrusive State
Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:52AM Government Accuses Sprint of Overcharging For Wiretapping Expenses
Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:38AM Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call
Sunday February 23, 2014 @11:28AM Most Alarming: IETF Draft Proposes "Trusted Proxy" In HTTP/2.0
Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:35AM French, German Leaders: Keep European Email Off US Servers
Saturday February 15, 2014 @01:40AM S. Korea Diverts Network From Huawei Networks
Thursday February 13, 2014 @11:33AM NSA: Others Implicated in Making Snowden Data Leaks Possible
Monday February 10, 2014 @07:18PM 3 Reasons To Hate Mass Surveillance; 3 Ways To Fight It
Monday February 10, 2014 @10:43AM Online, You're Being Watched At All Times; Act Accordingly.
Saturday February 08, 2014 @10:10PM Snowden Used Software Scraper, Say NSA Officials
Sunday January 26, 2014 @09:17PM Edward Snowden Says NSA Engages In Industrial Espionage
Sunday January 26, 2014 @07:29PM Is the West Building Its Own Iron Curtain?
Saturday January 25, 2014 @04:16PM RNC Calls For Halt To Unconstitutional Surveillance
Friday January 24, 2014 @08:34AM Surveillance Watchdog Concludes Metadata Program Is Illegal, "Should End"
Sunday January 19, 2014 @01:43PM Translating President Obama's NSA Reform Promises Into Plain English
Tuesday December 31, 2013 @01:15PM The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech
Tuesday December 24, 2013 @10:09AM Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished
Sunday December 22, 2013 @12:23PM Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment
Saturday December 21, 2013 @10:58PM Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts
Saturday December 21, 2013 @08:10PM Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club
Friday December 20, 2013 @08:41PM Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA
Thursday December 19, 2013 @02:03PM UN Votes To Protect Privacy In Digital Age
Thursday December 19, 2013 @10:01AM US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil
Tuesday December 17, 2013 @01:27PM France Broadens Surveillance Powers; Wider Scope Than NSA
Sunday December 15, 2013 @12:43AM NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove
Saturday December 14, 2013 @06:27PM Indiana State Police Acknowledge Use of Cell Phone Tracking Device
Friday December 13, 2013 @09:48PM NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto
Tuesday December 10, 2013 @09:09AM Insight On FBI Hacking Ops
Wednesday November 27, 2013 @09:13PM NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits
Monday November 25, 2013 @10:32AM Singapore & South Korea Help NSA Tap Undersea Cables
Saturday November 16, 2013 @06:42PM How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure
Thursday November 14, 2013 @10:16AM Could Slashdot (Or Other Private Entity) Sue a Spy Agency Like GCHQ Or NSA?
Tuesday November 05, 2013 @12:19PM Mobile Devices Banned From UK Cabinet Meetings Over Surveillance Fears
Tuesday November 05, 2013 @11:08AM Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance
Sunday November 03, 2013 @10:23PM Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden
Saturday November 02, 2013 @03:02PM GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance
Thursday October 31, 2013 @09:21AM Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support
Tuesday October 29, 2013 @08:19AM German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010
Friday October 25, 2013 @06:12PM EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US
Thursday October 24, 2013 @10:28AM MEPs Vote To Suspend Data Sharing With US
Thursday October 24, 2013 @10:16AM Rental Business Aaron's Admits Role In Spying On Customers
Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:39AM NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President
Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:38AM Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying
Friday September 27, 2013 @06:40PM Declassified NSA Docs Shed Light On Cold War (And Modern) Operations
Friday September 27, 2013 @07:32AM No Upper Bound On Phone Record Collection, Says NSA
Tuesday September 24, 2013 @03:16PM The Internet Society is Unhappy with U.S. Govt's Internet Spying Tactics
Monday September 16, 2013 @11:53AM Belgium Investigates Suspected Cyber Spying By Foreign State
Sunday September 08, 2013 @10:20AM NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry
Thursday August 29, 2013 @11:44AM Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets
Sunday August 25, 2013 @11:36AM NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences
Tuesday August 20, 2013 @10:53AM Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet
Tuesday August 13, 2013 @07:39AM Photocopying Michelle Obama's Diary, Just In Case
Saturday August 10, 2013 @06:30PM Cory Doctorow On Privacy and Oversharing
Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:56PM Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't
Thursday August 01, 2013 @08:55AM Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia
Friday July 26, 2013 @07:53PM Judge Denies Administration Request To Delay ACLU Metadata Lawsuit
Friday July 26, 2013 @06:34PM Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services
Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:34AM Jimmy Carter Calls Snowden Leak Ultimately "Beneficial"
Tuesday July 16, 2013 @01:41PM NSA Spying Hurts California's Business
Saturday July 13, 2013 @04:53PM Reconciling Human Rights With Ubiquitous Online Surveillance
Friday July 12, 2013 @06:04PM Aussie Telco Telstra Agreed To Spy For America
Friday July 12, 2013 @04:13AM MS Handed NSA Access To Encrypted Chat & Email
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:49AM Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @07:57AM US Spies Have "Security Agreements" With Foreign Telecoms
Thursday July 04, 2013 @01:48PM French Gov't Runs Vast Electronic Spying Operation of Its Own
Thursday July 04, 2013 @08:32AM EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US
Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:30PM More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies
Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:22PM WA Post Publishes 4 More Slides On Data Collection From Google, Et Al
Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:13PM Number of Federal Wiretaps Rose 71 Percent In 2012
Tuesday July 02, 2013 @08:41AM NSA Backdoors In Open Source and Open Standards: What Are the Odds?
Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:40PM Snowden: NSA Spying On EU Diplomats and Administrators
Thursday June 27, 2013 @09:07AM Meet PRISM's English Little Brother: Socmint