Report: NSA intercepts computers and other devices to hack them2013-12-30 10:03 by DanielaTags: NSA, surveillance, security
Revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) keep on coming, this time in a new report from Der Spiegel, based on internal National Security Agency documents. The German magazine reports about the NSA's elite hacking unit called Tailored Access Operations (TAO), which helps the agency target specific people and computer networks around the world and has the ability to install "backdoors" in computers and other devices in order to gain access to those networks. According to the report, the NSA has planted backdoors to access computers, hard drives, routers, and other devices from companies such as Cisco, Dell, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, and Huawei. The report describes a 50-page product catalog of tools and techniques that an NSA division called ANT, which stands for Advanced or Access Network Technology, uses to gain access to devices. The catalog even lists the prices for these electronic break-in tools, with costs ranging from free to $250,000. Read more -here-
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