Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal. The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December 2017 meeting between Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and a top Chinese go

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange leaves after speaking to the media from the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London on May 19, 2017. Photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images On a Thursday afternoon in November 2015, a light snow was falling outside the windows of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, despite the relatively warm weather, and Julian Assange was inside, sitting at his computer and pond

Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election A top-secret National Security Agency report details a months-long Russian hacking effort against the U.S. election infrastructure. Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta delivers a speech after arriving at the Yokota airforce base in Tokyo on October 24, 2011. Photo: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images It began as routinely as any other passenger flight. At gate 15 of New York City’s JFK Airport, more than 200 men, women, and children stood in line as they waited to board a Boeing 747. They were on their way to Seoul, South Kor

The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm A never-before-published NSA manual makes it clear that malware released by a hacker group this week came from the spy agency. On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA. Based on never-before-published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowd

A secret memo suggests GCHQ's Sir Iain Lobban (pictured) wanted more access to the NSA's PRISM data. PA Wire/AP Britain’s electronic surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters, has long presented its collaboration with the National Security Agency’s massive electronic spying efforts as proportionate, carefully monitored, and well within the bounds of privacy laws. But according to