The NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that they project will be storing yottabytes of surveillance data. There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. To wrap [...]

News Reports have recently surfaced revealing that the National Security Agencies surveillance of American citizens may be wider ranging than previously thought. A recent announcement by Congress suggested that the top secret spy organization’s monitoring of domestic internet traffic has gone beyond legal limits. This news comes as a result of leaked reports detailing the [...]

Numerous examples of malicious software have been found on hundreds of ATM machines running Microsoft Windows.  This ‘software’ is apparently able to record card numbers and details that are contained in the magnetic strip on the back of cards. Up until now, this exploit has only been found on ATM machines located in Eastern Europe, [...]

In recent news, it has been brought to light that the US military and government are actively searching for experienced hackers and crackers to join the ranks of the Department of Energy, National Security Agency and other organizations that need to be ‘protected’ from the threat of digital attack. To aid the US government in [...]