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Neben Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel sind noch viele weitere Regierungschefs auf der ganzen Welt vom US-Geheimdienst NSA abgehört worden. Das offenbart ein Geheimdokument von Whistleblower Edward Snowden.

More documents from former security contractor Edward Snowden show that the National Security Agency has been secretly working to gain a back door into all encryption technologies, The New York Times reports.

Bei ihren Durchsuchungen von Internetdaten gehen die Mitarbeiter der NSA auch Informationen über Dritte nach, die bereits überwachte Personen erwähnen. Das kann auch US-Bürger betreffen.

"[Government Communications Headquarters] must pull its weight," UK spies wrote.

XKeyscore doesn't just turn somebody's Internet life inside out. It's also a blood hound for sniffing out vulnerable systems.

According to Ars Technica's Sean Gallagher, the vulnerability "fingerprints" are added to serve as a filtering criteria for XKeyscore's application engines, comprised of "a worldwide distributed cluster of Linux servers attached to the NSA's Internet backbone tap points."

This turns XKeyscore into a passive port scanner, Gallagher writes, which can be used to search for network behavior on systems that match the NSA TAO's profiles for exploits or for systems already exploited by malware that the TAO can then take advantage of.

Eine im Web veröffentlichte geheime Präsentation beweist: Die NSA überwacht mit der Spionagesoftware Xkeyscore das ganze Internet - und das sogar in Echtzeit.

In a story no doubt timed to the keynote speech from NSA Director General Keith Alexander at this year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, the Guardian has released information on Xkeyscore, a surveillance program run by the NSA.

The analysis of phone call and e-mail logs for foreign intelligence purposes adds to the growing body of knowledge about the agency’s access to private information, prompting concern from lawmakers.

Aus der Antwort auf eine Anfrage einer amerikanischen Bürgerrechts-Aktivistin geht hervor, dass der Geheimdienst Informationen über aktuelle Schwachstellen von der französischen Sicherheitsfirma erhält.

What happens when a secret U.S. court allows the National Security Agency access to a massive pipeline of U.S. phone call metadata, along with strict rules on how the spy agency can use the information?

NSA also bugged more than 80 embassies and consulates, says Der Spiegel.

The wide-reaching leak on data surveillance programs by Edward Snowden (who has sought asylum in Russia) is still ongoing.

According to the Washington Post, an internal audit and other top-secret documents show that the National Security Agency (NSA) has broken privacy laws or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since it was granted broader powers in 2008.

===> In most cases, the NSA was involved in unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the U.S., despite these being restricted by law and executive order. <===

En parallèle des questions légales et morales, les fournisseurs américains de solutions cloud pointent toujours du doigt les conséquences de la révélation de la surveillance par la NSA sur leurs activités.

US-Cloud-Anbieter wie Microsoft, Amazon und Google haben durch die NSA-Enthüllungen zunehmend Probleme mit Kunden im Ausland. Das wird die Betreiber Milliarden kosten.

CNET has learned the FBI has developed custom 'port reader' software to intercept Internet metadata in real time. And, in some cases, it wants to force Internet providers to use the software. Read this article by Declan McCullagh on CNET News.