Security News

National Security Letter Details Unmasked (Threatpost)
2015-12-01 14:46

Details of a National Security Letter attachment were publicly shared, revealing the FBI covets not only telephone and Internet records, but also location data.

Revealed: What info the FBI can collect with a National Security Letter (Help Net Security)
2015-12-01 12:32

On Monday, after winning an eleven-year legal battle, Nicholas Merrill can finally tell the public how the FBI has secretly construed its authority to issue National Security Letters (NSLs) to permit ...

63% in favor of encryption backdoors to respond to national security threats (Help Net Security)
2015-09-11 07:30

Vormetric did a survey on how Americans view "backdoor" access by government entities to the encrypted data of private businesses. Ninety-one percent recognized that there were risks to encryption bac...