Embattled computer security firm Kaspersky Lab said Thursday that malware-infected Microsoft Office software and not its own was to blame for the hacking theft of top-secret US intelligence materials.
Adding tantalizing new details to the cyber-espionage mystery that has rocked the US intelligence community, Kaspersky also said there was a China link to the hack.
The Moscow-based anti-virus software maker,Read more
The U.S. National Security Agency said on Friday it had stopped a form of surveillance that allowed it to collect without a warrant the digital communications of Americans who mentioned a foreign intelligence target in their messages, marking an unexpected triumph for privacy advocates long critical of the practice.
The decision to stop the once-secret activity, which involved messages sentRead more
Bahrain Prime Minister Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa has said that security forces operations against terrorists will continue until the incubators for terrorism are destroyed and the phenomenon is eliminated.
The interior ministry on Thursday said it foiled an attempt to smuggle the fugitives who had escaped from the Jaw prison in the south of the country on JanuaryRead more
Bahrain on Thursday said that the law enforcement and arrest powers granted to its National Security Agency (NSA) would be limited to crimes with terror links.
Senior Advocate General Ahmad Al Dossari said that with reference to Decree 1/2017 that amended provisions of Decree 14/2002 establishing the NSA and granting the NSA officers judicial control powers, the authority to arrestRead more
US prosecutors said they expected to file espionage charges against a private contractor for the National Security Agency suspected of stealing an "astonishing quantity" of classified information.
Harold Martin III was arrested August 27 in Maryland and poses a "grave danger" to the United States, prosecutors wrote in a filing ahead of a detention hearing set for Friday in Baltimore.Read more
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union launched a campaign Wednesday to push President Barack Obama to pardon Edward Snowden, the fugitive intelligence whistleblower living in Russia.
High-profile lawyers and celebrities including writer Joyce Carol Oates and actor Martin Sheen have already signed the campaign's main prod, a petition at pardonsnowden.org that urges Obama to grantRead more
It was the largest data leak in United States history, fueling a firestorm over the issue of mass surveillance that resonated with Americans and ignited around the world.
Oliver Stone’s hotly-anticipated “Snowden” tells the story of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in dramatic form for the first time — but the movie almost never made it theaters.
“Frankly, it was turnedRead more
The Daesh group pushed back an offensive by US-trained Syrian rebels on a key route linking jihadist territory in eastern Syria to Iraq, a monitor said Wednesday.
The New Syrian Army, backed by US-led coalition strikes, had advanced overnight on IS territory near the Albu Kamal border crossing and adjacent town.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the NSARead more
The European Commission on Monday pledged around 20 million euros (22.6 million U.S. dollars) to the Nuclear Safety Account (NSA) fund, among efforts to step up contribution to nuclear safety.
It came a day ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster.
The sum is part of the 45 million euros expected from the G7 and the EuropeanRead more