FDI spurt from Cayman Islands after NSA Ajit Doval’s son registers company in 2016
Vishwadeepak 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…
US to renew Internet Surveillance Program exposed by Snowden
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…
The quantum computing apocalypse is imminent
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…
NSA secret report shows Russia hacking attempt just before election
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…
New report helps shed light on who the Shadow Brokers might be
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…
There’s another hacking attack going on right now, and it’s bigger than WannaCry
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…
Cayman Islands Government unveils finalised child abuse prevention policy
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…
Washington Post reveals new PRISM slides
…. 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…
Curbs on NSA reflects shifting US mood
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…
This is what the most secure email in the world could look like
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…