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Since we make it our business to be on top of the latest development we find a lot of interesting news and blog posts. We publish them here in our curated Security News, with our comments, and with links to the original material.
http://pingpal.io/pingcom/ping-content/uploads/2014/07/e2d73f15-a343-44cc-8f8e-0e78b5112bb3.jpg Okay, I must confess – When I first heard of the new app “YO”, I thought it was one of the most inane app ideas ever. Seriously, a single tap, zero character, communication tool? No emoticons? No exaggerated exclamations? No abbreviations? No Internet Slang? OMG!!! Source: mlabs.boston-technology.com I believe there is actually
http://pingpal.io/pingcom/ping-content/uploads/2014/07/77960d0f-f09f-4649-9860-661b772e0f6e.jpg Nine out of 10 people on which the NSA spies are actually not the intended targets of its surveillance, according to new documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Source: mashable.com NSA has an interesting view of the world. If you have foreign friends you are a foreigner. If you chat with a foreigner
http://pingpal.io/pingcom/ping-content/uploads/2014/07/bc7a96d8-d2cc-42b7-85bf-ee27259082f8.jpg Attempting to protect yourself from the National Security Agency’s snooping might just get you on the agency’s watch list. German investigators have discovered a rule in XKEYSCORE, the program that… Source: pando.com I wonder if and when visitors to pingpal.io will be targets of the NSA. And what about users of Telegram
http://pingpal.io/pingcom/ping-content/uploads/2014/07/e9886f21-4464-43aa-a023-5abfcf92c0f2.jpg Internet service providers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and South Korea have brought a case against the GCHQ intelligence agency in response to reports of its attemp… Source: pando.com The first real test of the legality of government agency snooping. They all claim that it is in national interest
http://pingpal.io/pingcom/ping-content/uploads/2014/07/5d754ece-75f6-4701-9786-398d6d51507f.jpg The Russian government has moved one step closer towards a “China-like” approach towards Internet services. Last night, the Russian State Duma.. Source: techcrunch.com This will be a huge challenge for online data miners like Google and Facebook. And what about messaging companies? How will WhatsApp et al cope with this? Will they