Topic: SECURITY - on June 12, 2013 at 10:12:00 PM CEST
Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group
Deep within the National Security Agency, an elite, rarely discussed team of hackers and spies is targeting America's enemies abroad.
This weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two leaders spoke at length about the topic du jour -- cyber-espionage -- a subject that has long frustrated officials in Washington and is now front and center with the revelations of sweeping U.S. data mining. The media has focused at length on China's aggressive attempts to electronically steal U.S. military and commercial secrets, but Xi pushed back at the "shirt-sleeves" summit, noting that China, too, was the recipient of cyber-espionage. But what Obama probably neglected to mention is that he has his own hacker army, and it has burrowed its way deep, deep into China's networks.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 12, 2013 at 4:25:00 PM CEST
Mehrere Staaten haben offenbar Zugriff auf Prism-Daten
Auch europäische Staaten können sich Medienberichten zufolge bei Daten aus der US-Netzüberwachung Prism bedienen. Dazu gehören etwa Belgien und die Niederlande. Russlands Präsident Putin kritisiert das Vorgehen der USA.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 12, 2013 at 12:55:00 PM CEST
86 Companies And Groups Ask Congress To Put An End To Abusive NSA Spying
A group of nearly 100 civil liberties, public interest groups and internet companies have asked Congress to put an end to the abusive NSA surveillance that we've been writing about over the past week (full disclosure: our company, Floor64, is a part of the coalition, along with the EFF, ACLU, reddit, Mozilla, the American Library Assocation, the Internet Archive and many, many more). Along with this effort, a new website has been launched, called Stop Watching Us, which is collecting more signatures for the letter, while also asking for some specific reforms from Congress.
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