Displaying items by tag: The Intercept

Eight groups in Australia are on a list of more than 4000 individuals and groups that Facebook users are barred from speaking about. The social media behemoth maintains that these people and groups promote violence.

A story about US mercenaries going to work for the UAE Government, without obtaining the necessary American clearances, was claimed as an exclusive in 2019 by two Reuters reporters – even though the yarn had already been told three years earlier by a reporter for The Intercept.

A former American intelligence analyst and member of the armed forces has pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining classified national defence information and giving it to a reporter.

Despite protests from its staff in the past leading to its pulling out from controversial US Government projects, Google has now made a deal for its artificial technology to be used by the Trump administration to fortify the US-Mexico border, The Intercept reports, based on documents obtained under a FOIA request.

In what are Google's first public comments about its plan to launch a censored search engine in China, chief executive Sundar Pichai has told a conference that what has been developed so far is "very promising".

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has avoided answering pointed questions posed by six US senators about the company's plan to launch a censored search engine in China, instead resorting to broad generalities such as the claim that the move would have “broad benefits inside and outside of China".

A leaked transcript of an address to his staff by Google's search engine chief Ben Gomes on 18 July — about the company's plan to build a censored search engine for China — contradicts the few public comments that Google has made about the plan ever since it came to light.

Google's reluctance to offer any public comment on its plans to launch a censored search engine in China has been reinforced by a report that the company has made employees erase from their systems a confidential memo containing details about the China plan.

A prototype of a censored search engine developed for China by Google links searches to the phone numbers of the individuals making those queries, a report claims.

At least five employees have quit Google in protest at the company's plans to launch a censored search engine app in China, with senior research scientist Jack Poulson being the most prominent among them.

An NSA contractor, who leaked a top-secret document to the website, The Intercept, and was caught, has agreed to a plea deal that will see her spend more than five years behind bars.

Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs may have put itself squarely in the crosshairs of the lobby promoting the theory that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016, by producing a paper that underscores the difficulty of attribution where cyber exploits are concerned.

A contractor who leaked a top-secret document to The Intercept was identified because the NSA was able to track who had printed out the document, using the yellow dot pattern that many printers place on documents, giving the time and date when the document was printed.

An US government contractor has been charged with mishandling classified information, with authorities charging her with providing a top-secret NSA document to a news organisation.

Yahoo! searched all its users' emails using a specially built program in order to try and locate specific information demanded by American intelligence officials, according to a Reuters report.

Hacking tools which were put up for sale by a group known as Shadow Brokers earlier this week have been confirmed as being authentic NSA software by The Intercept news website, which says its claim was backed by documents it had received from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The techniques used by XcodeGhost, the infected version of Apple's Xcode compiler that has caused an eruption of malware on the Apple China app store, are similar to those developed and demonstrated by America's Central Intelligence Agency.