A collection of documents recently published by Wikileaks casts a light on surveillance vendors who sell intrusive monitoring technology to governments and law enforcement agencies. This growing industry—which serves countries around the world—offers the ability to monitor entire populations and circumvent the privacy and security safeguards built into conventional consumer technology. In an arstechnica report Read more…

This is a New York Times article published on January 23, 2011 with the title “Cameras May Open Up the Board Room to Hackers” by Nicole Perlroth: One afternoon this month in San Francisco, a hacker took a tour of a dozen conference rooms around the globe via equipment that most every company has in Read more…

The following report appeared in the American National Defense Industry Association’s NationalDefenseMagazine and was quoted by Lauren Weinstein in his NNSquad list. I have emphasized parts of this report with coloured text and highlighter: For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. Read more…

US President Barrack Obama made some remarks on 29th May on securing America’s Cyber infrastructure. While outlining the strategy for cybersecurity he is explicit in stating that privacy and other civil liberties are not to be ignored: “Our pursuit of cybersecurity will not — I repeat, will not include — monitoring private sector networks or Read more…

This is from The New York Times with the caption “Vast Spy System that Loots Computers in 103 countries by John Markoff” Posted as appeared in The New York Times and the views expressed do not reflect that of ISOC India Chennai. A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from Read more…