comments feedVishwadeepak From National Herald India The younger son of National security Advisor Ajit Doval registered a hedge fund in Cayman Islands, a tax haven, barely 13 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonetised 86% of the Indian currency that was in circulation in November 2016. In a related and curious development, the FDI inflow into […]
FDI spurt from Cayman Islands after NSA Ajit Doval’s son registers company in 2016
January 17, 2019 by 1 Comment
US to renew Internet Surveillance Program exposed by Snowden
January 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to renew a warrantless internet surveillance program, disregarding civil liberties advocates. In a 65-34 vote the United States Senate approved Thursday a bill that renews a warrantless internet surveillance program for six years. The bill will allow the National Security Agency, NSA, to resume evesdropping on electronic communications via companies such as Facebook and Google once the U.S. […]
The quantum computing apocalypse is imminent
January 7, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By Shlomi Dolev From TechCrunch In the ancient world, they used cubits as an important data unit, but the new data unit of the future is the qubit — the quantum bits that will change the face of computing. Quantum bits are the basic units of information in quantum computing, a new type of computer […]
NSA secret report shows Russia hacking attempt just before election
June 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
By Greg Richter From Newsmax A highly classified National Security Agency report details how Russian military intelligence attempted a spear-phishing email attack just days ahead of the 2016 presidential election, The Intercept reported. The website said it verified the NSA document and redacted certain portions it deemed not vital to the national interest, but declined […]
New report helps shed light on who the Shadow Brokers might be
June 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
By Yoni Heisler From BGR Earlier this month, a piece of ransomeware known as WannaCry began spreading quickly across the globe and promptly commanded the world’s attention. Once WannaCry took hold of a machine, it encrypted all of a user’s files and demanded a payment of $300 in Bitcoin in order to retrieve them. Thankfully, […]
There’s another hacking attack going on right now, and it’s bigger than WannaCry
May 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
BY STAN SCHROEDER From Mashable WannaCry, the hacking attack that took thousands of computers’ data for ransom over the last week, hasn’t apparently been very lucrative for its makers so far. But another, apparently larger and smarter hacking attack that uses the same exploits, is silently using vulnerable machines across the globe for profit. This […]
Cayman Islands Government unveils finalised child abuse prevention policy
February 2, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The finalised Child Abuse Prevention Policy for National Sports Associations was launched by the Hon. Osbourne Bodden, Minister for Community Affairs, Youth and Sports ylast Wednesday, 1 February 2017. He also advised attendees that the first round of child abuse prevention training-sessions aimed at implementing the reporting aspects of the policy will take place on […]
Washington Post reveals new PRISM slides
April 5, 2016 by Leave a Comment
…. offers greater clarity into the US’ surveillance operation By Joe Pollicino From engadget PRISM: The surveillance story that started with four leaked slides from the Washington Post, gets a bit clearer. The publication has revealed [in 2013] four more annotated slides about the once-secret NSA operation, along with detailing the various levels of scrutiny […]
Curbs on NSA reflects shifting US mood
June 11, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Robert Macpherson, AFP From Business Insider Washington (AFP) – Curbing the US government’s power to collect telephone records is a victory of sorts for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden that reflects shifting public opinion about the surveillance state a decade after 9/11, analysts say. The US Freedom Act, passed Tuesday, marks the first time since […]
This is what the most secure email in the world could look like
August 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By Karyne Levy From Business Insider Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Raytheon BBN Technologies have created a way to make your email correspondence so secure (PDF), that even the NSA would have a hard time getting to it. It’s called digital steganography, which means hiding messages within other messages. Messages are […]
