Russian government-backed hackers stole highly classified U.S. cyber secrets in 2015 from the National Security Agency after a contractor put information on his home computer, two newspapers reported on Thursday. More »
Ai Wei-Wei denounced China's crackdown on lawyers and free speech on Wednesday but saw little hope that the upcoming Communist Party Congress would lead to more freedoms. More »
FILE PHOTO: NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett answers questions during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the House-passed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reform bill while on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 5, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing/Fi... More »
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy, in central London, Britain February 5, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/Files Wikileaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools that it... More »
The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in Langley, Virginia, U.S. on August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Photo Contractors likely breached security and handed over documents describing the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of hacking tools to anti-... More »
The disclosure this week of documents describing secret CIA hacking tools shows that intensified U.S. government efforts to prevent leaks by intelligence agency employees and contractors have largely failed, cyber security professionals and intelligence offici... More »
An aerial view of the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, U.S. January 29, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Photo A former National Security Agency contractor was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges he willf... More »
Asylum seekers Vanessa Mae Bondalian Rodel, 42, from the Philippines, and Ajith Pushpakumara, 44, from Sri Lanka, who helped hiding Edward Snowden while he was in Hong Kong in 2013, attend a special screening of the film ‘Snowden’ directed by Oliver Stone, in ... More »
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt attends a press conference to promote the film ‘Snowden’ at TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, September 10, 2016. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill Roy More »
WASHINGTON Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that the U.S. government has widened the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic in the hunt for hackers, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The c... More »
WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate blocked a measure to extend spy agencies’ bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records early on Saturday, leaving the fate of the program uncertain days before its June 1 expiration. By a vote of 54-45, the Senate failed to reach ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of anonymous artists erected a 4-foot-tall bronze statue of Edward Snowden, the former U.S. spy agency contractor famous for leaking classified information, in a New York City park overnight, officials said on Monday. The large mol... More »
