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Black Budget: NSA's Team of Elite Hackers Tasked with 'Sabotage'
Infosecurity Magazine This jives with conventional wisdom surrounding Stuxnet and Flame, the malware that was reportedly jointly developed by the US and Israel to target Iran's nuclear program. It's not all hacking and cyber-warfare though. Notably, the fiscal earmarking … |
The National Security Agency’s (NSA) apparatus for spying on what passes over the Internet, phone lines, and airways has long been the stuff of legend, with the public catching only brief glimpses into its Leviathan nature. Thanks to the documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we now have a much bigger picture.
When that picture is combined with federal contract data and other pieces of the public record—as well as information from other whistleblowers and investigators—it’s possible to deduce a great deal about what the NSA has built and what it can do.
We’ve already looked at the NSA’s basic capabilities of collecting, managing, and processing “big data.” But the recently released XKeyscore documents provide a much more complete picture of how the NSA feeds its big data monsters and how it gets “situational awareness” of what’s happening on the Internet. What follows is an analysis of how XKeyscore works and how the NSA’s network surveillance capabilities have evolved over the past decade.
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NSA's Snowden review focuses on possible access to China espionage files …
Washington Post A National Security Agency internal review of damage caused by the former contractor Edward Snowden has focused on a particular area of concern: the possibility that he gained access to sensitive files that outline espionage operations against Chinese … NSA fears Snowden saw details of China spying |
Senator Patrick Leahy, along with other US senators, has introduced a bill to limit National Security Agency (NSA) spying on domestic targets. They’re not asking for it to stop, mind you – just that it be more transparent with regards to privacy.
Naked Security – Sophos
