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The  U.K. Government Communications Headquarters  — the British equivalent of the  National Security Agency  — created fake  LinkedIn  pages to hack into a major Belgian telecommunications company. The hack was originally  reported  by  Der Spiegel  in September, based on documents leaked by former intelligence contractor  Edward Snowden . At the time, it was not known how the GCHQ pulled off the attack. As it turns out, the hack was carried out using what is called a “man-in-the-middle attack.” In this case, we now know that means the GCHQ used fake LinkedIn pages to redirect employees to sites containing malware. By tricking company personnel into downloading the malicious software, the GCHQ appears to have been able to breach Belgacom cybersecurity. This latest leak, published by  Der Spiegel  on Sunday, is the  first reported instance of LinkedIn being exploited by a government spy agency.  Unlike...

Edward Snowden  expressed his support for a German investigation into  NSA  surveillance in a letter delivered the German government on Friday. Outraged by recent allegations that the  NSA might have tapped  Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone, German lawmakers are considering a closer examination of the NSA's practices and have proposed  inviting Snowden to testify. In the letter, Snowden, who has been  charged with espionage , declines a potential invitation, but he says he "looks forward" to cooperating with Germany once the "situation is resolved" with the U.S. government. "Speaking the truth is not a crime. I am confident that with the support of the international community, the government of the United States will abandon this harmful behavior." Snowden,  who has reportedly taken a job in Russia , gave the letter to Hans-Christian Stroebele, a green party lawmaker who  showed it to the media  in a press conference on Fri...

10 Steps You Can Take to Protect Yourself from Internet Surveillance One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. But where to start? The bad news is: if you're being personally targeted by a powerful intelligence agency like the NSA, it's very, very difficult to defend yourself. The good news, if you can call it that, is that much of what the NSA is doing is mass surveillance on everybody. With a few small steps, you can make that kind of surveillance a lot more difficult and expensive, both against you individually, and more generally against everyone. Here's ten steps you can take to make your own devices secure. This isn't a complete list, and it won't make you completely safe from spying. But every step you take will make you a little bit safer than average. And it will make your attackers, whethe...

1 Not only are they out there keeping fish populations under control and occasionally leading lost boaters to land, dolphins' unique hunting techniques have also recently  inspired a new kind of radar  that's able to pinpoint hidden electronics like bomb triggers and surveillance devices. Move over dogs, man's officially found its new best friend. Developed by researchers at the University of Southampton in England who were intrigued at how dolphins were still able to pinpoint fish they were hunting even in the middle of distracting clouds of underwater bubbles, the TWIPR—or twin inverted pulse radar—borrows techniques from the ocean's smartest inhabitants. Namely, a technique where two signal pulses are sent out instead of one. This approach allows dolphins to distinguish between fish and bubbles, but with the TWIPR technology it can be used to detect electronics. When the pair of positive and negative pulses hit something like a tree, a rock, or even metal,...