NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is one of the most wanted men on the planet, both by folks that want him to spill more beans, the powerful people who want him to stop. Today, he granted the Guardian an exclusive Q&A, and he's already making it clear that this whistle-blowing won't end with him. Read More >>

There's been a lot of talk about the NSA and its data-gathering policies. The news sounds kind of scary. But you might be thinking that the NSA can't have literally every foreign and domestic call made in the U.S. That would be a crazy amount of data right? Well, yes it would be, and it kind of seems like they have it. Or at least could afford to keep it if they wanted to. Read More >>

Apple's FaceTime might be about to become the troublemaker's messaging tool of choice, as the tech giant claims government security requests are useless because the end-to-end encrypted video messaging system is, apparently, impossible to intercept. Read More >>

Unlike typical, run-of-the-mill malware threats, state-sponsored malware is developed for the purpose of cyber espionage or sabotage; aspects that are -- believe me -- kept in mind at every stage of its inception. Their operations are strikingly similar to human intelligence agencies rather than traditional malware which steals your passwords; read on for four main similarities below. Read More >>

The highly-classified, confidential documents that revealed the NSA's massive data-mining operation, PRISM, were leaked from the NSA's facilities on none other than a simple, innocuous thumb drive. Read More >>

The explosion in worry over what the government can and can't watch us doing has had quite the effect on the sales of George Orwell's surveillance society classic 1984, which has seen Amazon sales rocket by several thousand percent as well-read people quote their favourite Big Brother lines across the media. Read More >>

Microsoft and Facebook have joined Google in complaining about the US government's privacy restrictions, asking US authorities to let them tell the public how many data requests they receive from security agencies. So we might be a bit less suspicious of them. Read More >>

An NSA employee working through outside contractors is the man behind the NSA leak. A former technical assistant for the CIA and current Booz Allen Hamilton employee, 29-year-old Eric Snowden worked with The Guardian to release his identity today. Read More >>

Does the NSA have any secrets left? First there was PRISM—the network that's collecting real-time data on people everywhere—and now The Guardian has turned up "Boundless Informant" which is indexing surveillance and espionage metadata from the ENTIRE WORLD. Read More >>

In the wake of last night's revelation that everyone in the world has a creepy NSA-shaped stalker, defenders of online liberty and generally angry internet people Anonymous have gathered together a collection of NSA documents, including seemingly important stuff like the US Department of Defense's 'Strategic Vision' for controlling the internet. Read More >>

Your welcome mat is not a secure key repository, neither is the frame over your door or the suspicious foam-rubber "rock" lurking suspiciously next to your stoop. You might as well leave your doors unlocked. Instead hide your spare where nobody will ever think to look—in plain sight. Read More >>

The Internet is a huge place. Some parts of it are awesome, but others are...less so. And falling squarely in that latter category is the ancient .su domain, once the cyberhome of the Soviet Union. It's not exactly well maintained, or well policed, which is why more and more online criminals are using it as a hideout. Read More >>

It might pay to be more careful about where you juice up your phone — because a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have put together a prototype charger capable of installing malware onto an iPhone. Read More >>

In an ever increasing world of connected smart things, the most important home appliance, the front door lock, is just now getting automated. August, co-founded by Yves Behar and Jason Johnson, today announced the company's first product, a £130-odd lock aptly named Smart Lock. Now you never have to pull out your key or even your phone when your hands are full. You don't even need extra copies to dole out to friends and family. Read More >>

Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication last week, joining a growing group of tech companies to support the important security feature. Two-factor authentication can help mitigate the damage of a password breach or phishing attack. Read More >>