Bahrain upholds spying case sentencesBahrain's highest court has upheld the 10-year-jail term of a defendant convicted of spying for a foreign country. The High Criminal Court had earlier sentenced the con More… |
US spying on Bahrain, says secret reportAmerica's top intelligence agency has been spying on the Bahraini government - one of its closest allies in the region - along with 192 other countries, it has emerged. More… |
Saudi king names new spy chief as Iraq crisis spreadsSaudi Arabia's King Abdullah has appointed Prince Khaled bin Bandar as head of intelligence three months after his predecessor, who was in charge of efforts to support Syrian rebels against President Bashar al-Assad, was sacked. More… |
Iranian hackers use fake Facebook accounts to spyIn an unprecedented, three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a fake news website to spy on military and political leaders in the United States, Israel and other countries, a cyber intel More… |
Philippines denies spying on QatarThe Philippines has denied it was spying on Qatar, after three Filipinos were convicted of espionage. One man was sentenced to death and two to life in jail after they were found guilty of leaking informa More… |
NSA spying undermines US cyber powerRevelations about the scale of US spying on the Internet have badly damaged the country's negotiating power in international talks on cyberspace regulation and law enforcement, analysts and industry leaders said at a conference on Tuesday. More… |
Britain operating 'electronic spy posts' in GermanyDocuments leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden show that Britain's surveillance agency is operating a network of "electronic spy posts" from within a stone's throw of the Bundestag and German c More… |
Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on UNUS President Barack Obama recently ordered the National Security Agency to curtail eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters in New York as part of a review of US electronic surveillance, according to a US official familiar with the decis More… |
Convicts spied for Iran says BahrainSome of the 50 people jailed in Bahrain on Sunday for security offences were also convicted of spying for Iran and had planned "vandalism and rioting" with the backing of the Islamic Republic, the Bahraini government said. More… |
Snowden says US preventing his asylumFormer intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden said U.S. officials have been waging a campaign to prevent him from taking up offers of asylum, he said in a letter sent to a Human Rights Watch official and posted on Facebook. More… |