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April 13, 2014 10:54 AM
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Germany's aeronautics and space research center has for months been the target of a suspected cyber attack by a foreign intelligence service.
"The government classes the attack as extremely serious because it, among other things, is aimed at armament and rocket technologies," Spiegel said.
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April 10, 2014 11:03 AM
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The Heartbleed bug is unusually worrisome because it could possibly be used by the NSA or other spy agencies to steal your usernames and passwords — for sensitive services like banking, ecommerce, and web-based email — as well as the private keys that vulnerable web sites use to encrypt your traffic to them.
Either way, there are now signatures available to detect exploits against Heartbleed, as Dutch security firm Fox-IT points out on its website, and depending on how much logging companies do with their intrusion-detection systems, it may be possible to review activity retroactively to uncover any attacks going back over the last two years.
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March 31, 2014 3:57 PM
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The country's considering an overhaul of privacy laws that could make it illegal to record private conversations or activities without consent via Google Glass or similar wearable technologies.
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March 14, 2014 9:11 AM
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Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden has alleged that NSAs surveillance is even more widespread than first thought.
The latest documents released by Snowden, first published on Glenn Greenwald's new Interceptwebsite, suggest that the NSA's approach to monitoring targets' computers using eavesdropping malware has been on a near industrial scale, rather than carefully targeted.
Amongst the many tools used to carry out the targeted attacks - via compromised routers or Facebook - is an automated infection application known as ‘TURBINE' that can scale to millions of infection attempts a day.
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March 13, 2014 1:05 PM
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Spy tools, whether designed by intelligence agencies, cyber crooks or internet creeps, can turn your camera on without illuminating the indicator light. Online tutorials even instruct neophyte hackers on how to hijack your webcam. Fortunately, WIRED is here with a solution.
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March 13, 2014 9:03 AM
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The National Security Agency reportedly has plans to control millions of computers by infecting them with malware, according to documents leaked to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA doesn’t just hack foreign computers. It also piggybacks on the work of professional for-profit hackers, taking over entire networks of already-hacked machines and using them for their own purposes.
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February 27, 2014 11:19 AM
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The U.K. and U.S. government's ability to tap into webcams — and directly into your living rooms and offices — shows the biggest and most blatant lack of respect for people's privacy by Western governments in living memory.
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February 13, 2014 12:20 PM
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Logic suggests that the NSA is developing its own cyber weapons. It has its own malware, and its own CC servers says Sarb Sembhi, Incoming Thought Analyst.
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February 10, 2014 4:53 PM
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Kaspersky's security research team today revealed "one of the most advanced" cyber-espionage malware threats "The Mask" (aka Careto). Victims including government institutions, private equity firms and high-profile activists are exploited.
===> The researchers said, "At the moment, all known Careto command and control servers are offline. The campaign was active [from 2007] until January 2014, but during our investigations the C&C servers were shut down." <===
[GM] Thus meaning: wait and watch what is coming NEXT!
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January 28, 2014 10:58 AM
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According to the latest Snowden leaks, Britain's GCHQ can remotely control iPhones and Android devices using "targeted" tools. Meanwhile, the NSA can tap "leaky" apps to determine a person's age and location, and in some cases even their sexual orientation and political views.
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January 28, 2014 8:34 AM
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New Snowden documents show the NSA and British spy agency GCHQ have looked at ways to collect age, location and gender data from apps like Google Maps and Angry Birds.
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January 17, 2014 9:54 AM
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Well known cryptographer and computer security expert Bruce Schneier has been called in to brief six members of the US Congress.
Nevertheless, it is good to see that some members of the US Congress are trying to get a balanced view about NSA activities, especially when US President Obama is not expected to reign in the NSA as much as many would wish.
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April 11, 2014 4:24 PM
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"Heartbleed" ist eine der größten Sicherheitslücken in der Geschichte des Internets - und der US-Geheimdienst NSA hat diese offenbar ausgenutzt. Laut Nachrichtenagentur Bloomberg soll der US-Geheimdienst schon lange davon gewusst haben.
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April 2, 2014 2:32 PM
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In a letter to Congress released on Tuesday, the US government confirmed what we all knew (or at least suspected) – the National Security Agency has conducted warrantless searches on Americans' pri...
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March 18, 2014 2:17 PM
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The surveillance system is capable of recording “100 percent” of calls in at least one foreign country. The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden. A senior manager for the program compares it to a time machine — one that can replay the voices from any call without requiring that a person be identified in advance for surveillance.
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March 13, 2014 1:51 PM
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We already knew that the NSA has weaponized the internet, enabling them to "shoot" exploits at anyone they desire. But the Edward Snowden slides and story published yesterday convey a wealth of new detailed information about the NSA's technology and its limitations.
And that’s the bottom line with the NSA’s QUANTUM program. The NSA does not have a monopoly on the technology, and their widespread use acts as implicit permission to others, both nation-state and criminal.
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March 13, 2014 9:11 AM
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Die NSA verfolgt mit der Technologie TURBINE Pläne, Millionen von Rechner automatisiert anzugreifen und mit Malware zu infizieren. Die Rechner könnten dann ausgespäht werden.
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March 13, 2014 8:59 AM
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Parliament's consent to the EU-US trade deal
Parliament's consent to the EU-US trade deal "could be endangered" if blanket mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency does not stop, members of European Parliament said on Wednesday, in a resolution wrapping up their six-month inquiry into US mass surveillance schemes.
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February 28, 2014 1:14 PM
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February 27, 2014 9:39 AM
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• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk • 1.8m users targeted by GCHQ in six-month period alone • Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy' • Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images
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February 12, 2014 12:23 PM
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Une cyber-menace agissant depuis 2007 vient d'être mise en lumière par Kaspersky : nommée The Mask, ou Careto, cette dernière cible les informations sécurisées des administrations et autres entreprises. [...]
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January 31, 2014 4:17 PM
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Canada’s electronic spy agency has allegedly been using airport Wi-Fi to spy on its citizens. CBC News reports that the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) collected data over a...
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January 28, 2014 8:39 AM
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The NSA and its British counterpart are tapping popular smartphone apps such as Angry Birds to peek into the tremendous amounts of very personal data those bits of software collect -- including age, location sex and even sexual preference.
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January 18, 2014 10:23 AM
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SEATTLE – President Obama this morning announced new limitations to the government's collection of telephone metadata, and banned U.S. eavesdropping of foreign leaders.
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"The government classes the attack as extremely serious because it, among other things, is aimed at armament and rocket technologies," Spiegel said.