Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring, the Guardian can reveal. In both cases, the children have grown up not knowing that their biolo …
By A.
German ministers have approved plans to establish a national register of far-right extremists, after revelations of 10 neo-Nazi murders since 2000. It is thought there are almost 10,000 neo-Nazis in Germany and the database would include information held by all federal and sta …
The United States government has expelled a Venezuelan diplomat based in Miami in a bizarre story seemingly ripped straight from "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," complete with secret agents, computer hackers, and endangered nukes.U.S.
Greens leader Bob Brown has accused Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson of turning Australia into a police state, after reports he pushed for increased surveillance of environmental activists. A report in Fairfax newspapers details documents, obtained under Freedom of I …
Evidence is rising that Stuxnet, a cyberweapon that attacked Iran's nuclear facilities in 2009, is part of a supersophisticated manufacturing process for malicious software, two antivirus companies tell the Monitor.
A Missouri federal judge ruled the FBI did not need a warrant to secretly attach a GPS monitoring device to a suspect’s car to track his public movements for two months. The ruling, upholding federal theft and other charges, is one in a string of decisions nationwide sup …
Western and Chinese high-tech companies are competing aggressively to sell, install and manage intrusive and dangerous internet surveillance and communications control equipment for the world’s most brutal regimes, a six-month investigation has found. During 2011, inves …
GCHQ has launched a code-breaker challenge as part of its attempts to unearth fresh talent from unconventional sources. The signals intelligence agency's ‘canyoucrackit’ challenge invites would-be codebreakers to crack a visual code at canyoucrackit.co.uk.
The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the politically divisive question of whether it would hear a challenge to President Obama’s healthcare law, two of its justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, were feted at a dinner sponsored by the …
SpyWorld has not initiated any private discussions.