The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium's Largest Telco

The Intercept - First Look MediaThe Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium's Largest TelcoThe Intercept - First Look MediaThe computer systems of Belgacom had been infected with a highly sophisticated malware, and it was disguising itself as legitimate Microsoft software while quietly stealing data. Last year, documents from ... Based on new documents from the Snowden ...

NSA allowed to keep secret some Internet security flaws, officials say

Boston GlobeNSA allowed to keep secret some Internet security flaws, officials sayBoston GlobeBut Obama carved a broad exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need,” the officials said, a loophole that is likely to allow the NSA to continue to exploit security flaws both to crack encryption on the Internet and to design ...

Spying Is Bad for Business Can we trust an Internet that's become a weapon of ...

MIT Technology ReviewSpying Is Bad for Business Can we trust an Internet that's become a weapon of ...MIT Technology ReviewDocuments leaked last June by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealed a global surveillance operation coördinated by the U.S. National Security Agency and its counterpart in Britain, the GCHQ. Among the ... Large Internet companies ...

Microsoft's pledge to 'shield foreign data' may increase NSA surveillance ...

ZDNetMicrosoft's pledge to 'shield foreign data' may increase NSA surveillance ...ZDNet... may increase NSA surveillance, experts suggest. Summary: Microsoft's efforts to allow foreign customers to move their data to non-U.S. regional datacenters could increase the scope of NSA surveillance, academics and lawyers suggest. Corinne Reichert.