nsa Archives - The Westside Story

Russian security firm says NSA installed scary irremovable spying malware in hard drives manufactured after 2001

Feb 18, 2015

In a shocking reveal, it was found that the NSA has deployed malwares deep within the hard drives that it can spy on almost computer that was made after the year 2001. A recent Kaspersky Labs, a Moscow-based fi...

NSA hacked North Korean networks long before they hacked Sony

Amanda

Jan 20, 2015

Innovation

Washington was quick to name North Korea as the perpetrator of the horrific cyber vandalizing crime against Sony Pictures last year. If reports from The New York Times are to be believed, they could pinpoint No...

NSA worried over advanced passcode encryption mechanism of Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Platonium

Sep 28, 2014

Innovation

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) recently launched its much-awaited iPhone 6 duo, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, with an advanced encryption mechanism that even government and state-sponsored hackers can't break. However, o...

Yahoo going to make it hard for hackers

Abby Smith

Aug 8, 2014

Innovation

Yahoo announced Thursday it would encode its email service by the next year, joining Google and Microsoft in an effort to make an email system for preventing government officials and hackers from it reading the...

NSA denies to exploit HeartBleed for Backdoor Hacking

David

Apr 12, 2014

Innovation

Yesterday we had reports from Bloomberg claiming that the NSA has exploited the bug 'HeartBleed' in OpenSSL for almost two years and kept it in dark for the sake of national security. But today NSA denied the v...

For years NSA has exploited HeartBleed for Backdoor Hacking

David

Apr 11, 2014

Innovation

In a recent news Bloomberg reported that the OpenSSL bug HeartBleed, which came in light because of few security researchers, was being exploited by the NSA for almost two years. Bloomberg report stated ...

Google had a rise where Yahoo reflected a decline in government request for users’ data

Abby Smith

Mar 30, 2014

Innovation

Google said that the rise in requests for the users' data across the world has increased. Saying it is almost 120 times more than it was last year, the company stated, majority of the request is from the U.S. g...

Facebook : Government comes only through front door, Security is much stronger to break

Jayaram Pawar

Mar 19, 2014

Innovation

Facebook security engineer, Joe Sullivan called up a meet with reporters to explain about the company's view on security, how it was before and after the Edward Snowden leaks. Saying, except few important chan...

NSA Reportedly Broke Many Privacy Rules

David

Aug 16, 2013

Uncategorized

According to a leading newspaper report, the National Security Agency has broken privacy rules many times. On Thursday night, a news report in the Washington Post said that NSA had broken privacy rules and o...

Biden Calls Correa requesting he deny Asylum to Snowden

Jayaram Pawar

Jun 30, 2013

Uncategorized

Vice President Joseph Biden asked President Rafael Correa to turn down Edward Snowden’s asylum request. Snowden leaked National Security Agency information. President Correa said the conversation he had with...

Tagged nsa