Amazon names former NSA director to board of directors, who was also the man in charge when Edward Snowden blew spying whistle

Amazon names former NSA director to board of directors, who was also the man in charge when Edward Snowden blew spying whistle
Spying setback. US Court of Appeals rules the NSA surveillance and mass data collection program exposed by Edward Snowden, was unlawful
Operators of critical infrastructure are being warned to harden their networks against cyber threats to their operational technology (OT)
Organised crime around Europe has been dealt a huge blow after authorities cracked the encryption of a messaging system used by criminals
Microsoft pushes out critical security fix, after tip off from the US National Security Agency about serious flaw in all versions of Windows
Both the US NSA and UK NCSC warn hackers are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in VPN products
Former NSA whistleblower and resident of Moscow Edward Snowden is sued by US authorities
Cyber attack risk if you don’t patch or upgrade to newer operating systems, warns American spy agency
Meanwhile, former US intelligence officials claim Iran and China killed dozens of spies following a ‘catastrophic’ cyber-communications lapse
The surveillance agency obtained 534 million call and text records last year
Directors of the CIA, FBI, NSA urge consumers not to purchase Huawei smartphones or ZTE kit
‘Carry on spying’, US lawmakers say after the senate renews NSA warrantless internet surveillance program
The Android-based app monitors the physical environment around it and sends end-to-end encrypted updates via Signal mobile software
ANALYSIS: Yet another former NSA employee has taken secret information home, allegedly enabling Russian hackers to gain access to data.
Top secret army data found online after virtual image of hard disk was left on an AWS server
Kaspersky publishes investigation findings that it says show its products were not used to stage assault which saw NSA code and files stolen
Kaspersky’s security software had stumbled across NSA code in 2014, but the PC in question was also infected with a backdoor
In the incident, which Microsoft described at the time as limited, hackers reportedly accessed the company’s internal database of unfixed software flaws
Kaspersky vehemently denies being involved in any Russian spying activities
Kaspersky rejects claims it was directly involved and asks why didn’t the NSA report the alleged flaw
Bad news for American spooks? US politicians seek to overhaul rules governing warrant-less internet surveillance
This is the first time that a refusal to comply with a government surveillance directive has been made public
CherryBlossom can monitor Internet traffic and inject malicious code into targeted routers
The compromise of a highly classified report by an NSA contractor is serious enough, but the poor security measures were worse
The group has big plans for its stolen NSA data
New batch of stolen code to be auctioned by hacker group, despite earlier pledge to shut down operation
ANALYSIS: Quantum computing’s potential to crack encryption worries the NSA, so it’s developing standards and strategies for a post-quantum world
Fallout from WannaCrypt attacks continues as Microsoft publicly calls out NSA for stockpiling security vulnerabilities
The NSA said it will no longer collect communications by US citizens that merely mention foreign surveillance targets, in a win for online privacy
The NSA’s Doublepulsar attack tool infected nearly 80,000 systems over the past weekend alone, according to worldwide scans