Topic: SECURITY - on December 3, 2013 at 3:42:00 PM CET
Frankreich, geschätzter Partner der NSA-Spionage
Wie die französische Tageszeitung Le Monde unter Berufung auf Dokumente aus dem Snowden-Fundus am Wochenende berichtete, arbeitet der französische Auslands-Geheimdienst DGSE eng mit der amerikanischen NSA und Großbritanniens GCHQ zusammen – auch bei der Überwachung französischer Bürgerinnen und Bürger, auch wenn der französische Geheimdient versuche, manches zu filtern.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 30, 2013 at 3:28:00 PM CET
Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums
In the ever-longer wake of the NSA scandal, much-respected Dutch newspaper NRC today reveals, in English, as mandated by the gravity of the occasion, that the Dutch secret service, the AIVD, hacks internet forums. And yes, that is gross misconduct against Dutch law. The service, whose headquarters are in Zoetermeer, did not yet comment upon the divulgence of the document from Edward Snowden's collection. Incensed Dutch parliamentarians are calling for an enquiry.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 30, 2013 at 2:24:00 PM CET
NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion in U.S. Technology Sales
International anger over the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance is hurting global sales by American technology companies and setting back U.S. efforts to promote Internet freedom.
Disclosures of spying abroad may cost U.S. companies as much as $35 billion in lost revenue through 2016 because of doubts about the security of information on their systems, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a policy research group in Washington whose board includes representatives of companies such as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Intel Corp. (INTC)
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 28, 2013 at 2:07:00 PM CET
New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto
Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government allowed the largest American spy agency to conduct widespread surveillance in Canada during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits.
The documents are being reported exclusively by CBC News.
The briefing notes, stamped "Top Secret," show the U.S. turned its Ottawa embassy into a security command post during a six-day spying operation by the National Security Agency while U.S. President Barack Obama and 25 other foreign heads of state were on Canadian soil in June of 2010.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 28, 2013 at 2:04:00 PM CET
Death and the NSA: Motherboard Meets Bruce Schneier
Since Edward Snowden's disclosures about widespread NSA surveillance, Americans and people everywhere have been presented with a digital variation on an old analog threat: the erosion of freedoms and privacy in exchange, presumably, for safety and security.
Bruce Schneier knows the debate well. He's an expert in cryptography and he wrote the book on computer security; Applied Cryptography is one of the field's basic resources, "the book the NSA never wanted to be published," raved Wired in 1994. He knows the evidence well too: lately he's been helping the Guardian and the journalist Glenn Greenwald review the documents they have gathered from Snowden, in order to help explain some of the agency's top secret and highly complex spying programs.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 27, 2013 at 3:29:00 PM CET
NSA 'collected details of online sexual activity' of Islamist radicals
The NSA has been collecting details about the online sexual activity of prominent Islamist radicals in order to undermine them, according to a new Snowden document published by the Huffington Post.
The American surveillance agency targeted six unnamed "radicalisers", none of whom is alleged to have been involved in terror plots.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 27, 2013 at 2:53:00 PM CET
NSA 'spied on porn habits to target radicalisers'
• Snowden document 'shows NSA porn trawl' • EU threatens to freeze US data-sharing • Indonesian president 'angry' with Australia • UN moves closer to calling for end to surveillance • New to the NSA revelations? Catch up here • What do the NSA files mean for you?
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 27, 2013 at 2:51:00 PM CET
UN: Mass Spying May Be a Human Rights Violation
Following the steady stream of revelations about the NSA’s surveillance program, a United Nations human rights committee passed a “right to privacy in the digital age” resolution on Tuesday. The resolution, co-sponsored by Brazil and Germany, two countries whose leaders were spied on by the NSA, states that “that surveillance and data interception by governments and companies ‘may violate or abuse human rights,’” Agence France Presse reports.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 26, 2013 at 3:06:00 PM CET
The NSA and surveillance ... made simple
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 26, 2013 at 3:05:00 PM CET
Spies worry over "doomsday" cache stashed by ex-NSA contractor Snowden
British and U.S. intelligence officials say they are worried about a "doomsday" cache of highly classified, heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud.
The cache contains documents generated by the NSA and other agencies and includes names of U.S. and allied intelligence personnel, seven current and former U.S. officials and other sources briefed on the matter said.
The data is protected with sophisticated encryption, and multiple passwords are needed to open it, said two of the sources, who like the others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 25, 2013 at 2:51:00 PM CET
New Snowden leaks reveal US, Australia's Asian allies
Singapore and South Korea are playing key roles helping the United States and Australia tap undersea telecommunications links across Asia, according to top secret documents leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. New details have also been revealed about the involvement of Australia and New Zealand in the interception of global satellite communications.
A top secret United States National Security Agency map shows that the US and its “Five Eyes” intelligence partners tap high speed fibre optic cables at 20 locations worldwide. The interception operation involves cooperation with local governments and telecommunications companies or else through “covert, clandestine” operations.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 23, 2013 at 3:12:00 PM CET
NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software
The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by former NSA-employee Edward Snowden and seen by this newspaper, prove this.
A management presentation dating from 2012 explains how the NSA collects information worldwide. In addition, the presentation shows that the intelligence service uses ‘Computer Network Exploitation’ (CNE) in more than 50,000 locations. CNE is the secret infiltration of computer systems achieved by installing malware, malicious software.
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