Security News

The NSA, Metadata, and the Failure of Stopping 9/11 (Schneier on Security)
2015-07-30 11:13

It's common wisdom that the NSA was unable to intercept phone calls from Khalid al-Mihdhar in San Diego to Bin Ladin in Yemen because of legal restrictions. This has been used to justify the NSA's...

Researchers hack Linux-powered sniper rifle (Help Net Security)
2015-07-30 10:59

When talking about the Internet of Things - "things" with an embedded computing system able to interoperate within the Internet infrastructure - we usually think about fridges, thermostats, smart cars...