The Information Warfare Monitor (a joint venture of Toronto University's Citizen Lab at the Munke Centre for International Studies and a Canadian think-tank called SecDev) teamed up with the Tibetan Government in Exile for a nine-month multi-continent investigation to develop a …

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The National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell's Thought Police might have found useful: an artificial intelligence system designed to gain insight into what people are thinking.

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On Monday, thanks to the National Security Archive, the National Security Agency released thousands of pages from its enormous, official, classified history of the nation's signal intelligence and communications security operations during the code war. Its author is Dr.

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In response to a declassification request by the National Security Archive, the secretive National Security Agency has declassified large portions of a four-part "top-secret Umbra" study, American Cryptology during the Cold War.

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No outsider has spent more time tracking the labyrinthine ways of the National Security Agency than James Bamford. But even he gets lost in the maze.

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An expansion of offensive capabilities in cyberspace would represent an important change for the military. For years, US officials have been reluctant to militarize what is widely seen as a medium for commerce and communication -- much like space.

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On May 10, 2005, WMR reported on the existence of a highly-classified database at the National Security Agency (NSA), formerly code-named 'FIRSTFRUITS,' that monitored journalists who reported on the activities of the eavesdropping agency, as well as other intelligence matters.

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At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Eric Filiol, the head scientist at the French Army Signals Academy's Virology and Cryptology Lab, explained how to steal data from a computer without a network connection.

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Frustrated by press leaks about its most sensitive electronic surveillance work, the secretive National Security Agency convened an unprecedented series of off-the-record "seminars" in recent years to teach reporters about the damage caused by such leaks and to discourage reporti …

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Several sources, including investigative journalist Gus Russo, are reporting America's psychic spy program is alive and well, hidden in the depths of the National Security Agency.

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When the Islamist group Hamas conquered the Gaza Strip in June it seized an intelligence-and-military infrastructure created with US help by the security chiefs of the Palestinian territory's former ruler.

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The world's top spy chiefs - including the heads of the CIA and British, Australian and Canadian agencies - have been meeting in secret in New Zealand.

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John Pike wonders why. The former spokesman for the Federation of American Scientists, who now runs GlobalSecurity.Org, says to consider the targets the NSA watches.

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The Bush Administration's use of warrantless wiretaps in the war on terrorism continues to generate controversy, and Congress is planning hearings. Some of the loopier elements of the Democratic Party have even suggested the wiretaps are grounds for impeachment.

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"According to a Rasmussen poll, 64 percent of Americans believe the National Security Agency should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorist cells overseas and persons living in the United States; 23 percent disagree.

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