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Researchers Link Regin to Malware Disclosed in Recent Snowden Documents – Threatpost

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Researchers Link Regin to Malware Disclosed in Recent Snowden Documents
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The Regin malware platform was disclosed in late November by Kaspersky Lab and it was quickly labeled one of the most advanced espionage malware platforms ever studied, surpassing even Stuxnet and Flame in complexity. The platform is used to steal …
Researchers link QWERTY keylogger code to NSA and Five Eye's Regin …Network World

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Video documents ‘audacious’ protest flight over massive NSA data center in Utah

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a seven-minute video documenting the reasoning behind and preparation for that June 27 launch of a protest airship over the National Security Agency’s sprawling data center in Bluffdale, Utah. The flight itself is spectacular.

From an EFF press release:

At dawn on June 27, EFF, Greenpeace, and the Tenth Amendment Center launched an airship above the NSA’s $ 1.2-billion data center in Bluffdale, Utah. The 135-foot-long airship carried a banner bearing a downward arrow and the words, “Illegal Spying Below,” to bring attention to the facility as well as StandAgainstSpying.org, a website showing how members of Congress voted on legislation that would restrict mass surveillance.

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Microsoft: Targeted phishing attacks allowed SEA to steal law enforcement documents

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Since the start of 2014, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has twice attacked Microsoft, accusing the Redmond giant of helping the government spy on and monitor our email as well as warning people not to use Microsoft email like Hotmail or Outlook. The first hack was via all of Skype’s social media accounts.
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US spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents … – Washington Post

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US spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents …
Washington Post
U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington …
US: Offensive Cyber–Warfare is Illegal…Unless We Do ItAntiwar.com (blog)
The US is right in its aggressive cyber-security effortsTechi
New leaks reveal broad scope of US cyber offensiveThe Verge
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