National Security Agency

• Pentagon proposes to split NSA, U.S. Cyber Command leadership

  Both organizations currently are headed by Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, an arrangement known as ``dual-hatting.''

  World

  Dec 19, 2020
  
• UAE government using popular chat app ToTok to spy on citizens: report

  The government uses ToTok to track conversations, locations, images and other data of those who install the app on their phones, The New York Times reported.

  Tech

  Dec 23, 2019
  
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• Trudeau urged by lawyers to grant ‘Snowden refugees’ asylum in Canada

  The group offered shelter and other help for a few weeks to Snowden in 2013, who is wanted in the United States for leaking classified documents from the National Security Agency that exposed the scope of massive American government surveillance operations.

  Canada

  Oct 16, 2019
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• U.S. spies paid $100K to mysterious Russian who promised damaging info on Trump: report

  The spies were also seeking to retrieve cyberweapons stolen from the National Security Agency.

  Politics

  Feb 9, 2018
• Trump renews NSA internet surveillance program for six more years

  The program gathers information from foreigners overseas but incidentally collects an unknown amount of communications belonging to Americans.

  Politics

  Jan 19, 2018
• Russian military hacked U.S. voting software supplier just before election: report

  Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year's presidential election, according to a government intelligence report leaked Monday that suggests election-related hacking penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than previously known.

  Politics

  Jun 5, 2017
• ‘Calls into question our commitment to the rule of law’: Edward Snowden on firing of FBI director

  The decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to fire FBI director James Comey is alarming and part of a global shift away from democratic controls over powerful people, former intelligence officer Edward Snowden said Tuesday night.

  Canada

  May 10, 2017
• NSA contractor arrested for removing highly classified information

  A contractor for the NSA has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his house and car.

  Crime

  Oct 5, 2016
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• Edward Snowden intends to vote in US presidential election

  National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says he intends to vote in the U.S. presidential election, but did not say which candidate he favours.

  World

  Sep 16, 2016
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• ‘Auction’ of NSA tools sends security companies scrambling

  The leak of what purports to be a NSA hacking kit has set the information security world atwitter and sent major companies rushing to update their defences.

  Money

  Aug 17, 2016