Editors Note: (Ralph Turchiano) Requested Repost from the archives (Oct 2013) EEV: Recently Compromised or exposed Code names, Operations, Software and facilities. The list is in no particular order and is being updated frequently. These are just the discoveries from… Read More ›
National Security Agency
China is trying to deny it stole the plans for the Lockheed’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
2015-01-20 13:28:33 BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhuanet) — According to a report carried in the Australian Associated Press, U.S. National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden has claimed that Chinese spies stole a huge volume of data related to Lockheed’s F-35 Joint… Read More ›
German Double Agent Stole Names of 3,500 Spies World-Wide
Wednesday, 14 January 2015 Investigators have found a list reportedly compiled by a BND agent accused of working for the US, containing the names and aliases of 3,500 German intelligences employees, Bild newspaper reports. The 32-year-old, identified as Markus… Read More ›
Secret Malware in European Network Traced to NSA & GCHQ
Tuesday, 25 November 2014 Complex malware known as Regin is the suspected technology behind sophisticated cyberattacks conducted by U.S. and British intelligence agencies on the European Union and a Belgian telecommunications company, according to security industry sources and technical… Read More ›
Edward Snowden’s not a one-off: US.gov hunts new secret doc leaker
Poor old Julian Assange – whistleblower went straight to Glenn Greenwald It appears former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is not the only leaker of secret US documents around, as the US government searches for another whistleblower in the aftermath of… Read More ›
Intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenboom: ‘It’s a huge scandal’
According to German media, an employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States. Intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenboom tells DW why this case is outrageous. Intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenboom: ‘It’s a huge scandal’… Read More ›
NBC Censored Snowden responses during interview
Saturday, 31 May 2014 Only around a quarter of the recent NBC News interview with former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden made it to broadcast, but unaired excerpts now online show that the network “neglected” to air critical statements about… Read More ›
Bilderberg group meets to discuss ‘Does Privacy Exist’?
Thursday, 29 May 2014 Many may chuckle when they learn a debate entitled “Does Privacy Exist?” is to feature at this year’s Bilderberg conference, the notoriously secretive gathering of the world’s most powerful bankers, politicians and business people. … Read More ›
NSA spied on 122 World Leaders
Sunday 30 March 2014 Secret documents newly disclosed by the German newspaper Der Spiegel on Saturday shed more light on how aggressively the National Security Agency and its British counterpart have targeted Germany for surveillance. A series of classified files… Read More ›
NSA ‘records all phone conversations’ in unnamed target country ( MYSTIC )
US agency records every phone conversation in unnamed target nation, according to exiled whistle-blower Edward Snowden and others UPDATED : Thursday, 20 March, 2014, 4:23am The Washington Post NSA taps ‘all calls’ in one country. The US National Security Agency… Read More ›
USA gives up control of Internet
Friday, 14 March 2014 U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move likely to please international critics but alarm some business leaders and others who rely on smooth functioning of… Read More ›
NSA’s TURBINE robot pumps ‘malware into MILLIONS of PCs’
Sysadmins, routers, criminals’ IRC botnets, and maybe terrorists, all for the pwning By Iain Thomson 12th March 2014 21:47 GMT The latest batch of top-secret intelligence documents from the hoard collected by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden detail the massive increase in… Read More ›
Do Americans Have Compassion?
EEV: One of the main Articles as it appeared in Pravda. From a Propaganda stand point there is a reason you de-humanize your adversary. It does represent a subtle insidious escalation, for those versed in the history of conflict. 07.03.2014… Read More ›
Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ
• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk • 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone • Yahoo: ‘A whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy’ • Material included large quantity of sexually… Read More ›
‘I always wonder if someone is listening’: NSA spied on American lawyers but sometimes got other governments to do the work for them
U.S. law firm advising Indonesia’s government on trade issues was spied on by a foreign government Spying was done by Australia which then passed the info onto the NSA Law firm involved not identified in the latest documents The NSA… Read More ›
Greenwald promises more shocking news on US surveillance, says he has sources apart from Snowden
Glenn Greenwald Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke news of US government surveillance in the Guardian newspaper, promises more revelations on US surveillance, as he has come into contact with more sources besides Edward Snowden, former NSA employee. In an… Read More ›
US intelligence agencies incapable of detecting nuke threats – report
© Photo: Flickr.com/benben/cc-by-nc-sa 3.0 American intelligence and security agencies are not currently capable of detecting when foreign nations are building nuclear weapons or ramping up their existing programs, according to a newly released Pentagon report that faults a range… Read More ›
Snowden speaks: NSA spies create ‘databases of ruin’ on innocent folks
– Firstly, the fear that everything is being recorded will change our personal behavior for the worse – secondly that the data amounted to “databases of ruin”, storing embarrassing or harmful details can be plucked out in retroactive investigations. ‘Not… Read More ›
NSA statement does not deny ‘spying’ on members of Congress
– Senator Asked the Question ” about whether it “has spied, or is … currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials” • Agency responds to questions from Senator Bernie Sanders • Statement cites ‘same privacy protections as… Read More ›
How the NSA hacks PCs, phones, routers, hard disks ‘at speed of light’: Spy tech catalog leaks
– It’s not as bad as you thought – it’s much worse By Iain Thomson 31st December 2013 04:29 GMT Analysis A leaked NSA cyber-arms catalog has shed light on the technologies US and UK spies use to infiltrate… Read More ›
Not Socially Acceptable: NSA boss video ‘most hated’ on YouTube in 2013?
EEV: In all fairness to the NSA director, he is only an employee of the government. It is not appropriate he be the fall guy, unless he acted independently of his supervisors. Published time: January 01, 2014 10:32 Director of the… Read More ›
Tailored Access Operations (TAO) NSA Was Compromised Months Ago
EEV: Best Intel is always False Intel: In response to a special request, here were the initial press leaks in regards to TAO NSA Accessed Mexican President’s Email OCT 2013 Was ISRAEL behind the hacking of millions of French phones and… Read More ›
Our Safari through TOR – Espionage, Assasination, and Private Armies
EEV: Nothing Special Here . Just posting up a few Common easy to find TOR posts, for our Non TOR users. Often the media makes solicitations for subversive dealings appear unusual or uncommon, but they are not. I will post web page… Read More ›
Shopping for Spy Gear / Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox
By Jacob Appelbaum, Judith Horchert and Christian Stöcker After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices. Editor’s note:… Read More ›
NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules
• Dragnet program deemed ‘controversial but lawful’ • Lawsuit brought by ACLU dismissed • NSA phone data collection deemed legal: full ruling Dan Roberts in Washington theguardian.com, Friday 27 December 2013 11.52 EST Judge said the phone data-collection system… Read More ›
Phone companies might have to store snoop data instead of NSA, Obama says
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 22 December, 2013, 5:49am UPDATED : Sunday, 22 December, 2013, 5:49am The Washington Post US President Barack Obama winds up a press conference on possible NSA reforms. Photo: AFP US… Read More ›
Major computer security firm RSA took $10 mln from NSA to weaken encryption – report
Published time: December 20, 2013 23:48 RSA SecureID electronic keys (Reuters / Michael Caronna) The National Security Agency arranged a clandestine US$10 million contract with computer security power RSA that allowed the spy agency… Read More ›
How GCHQ Monitors Germany, Israel and the EU
– suspicion arising from the documents that their organization engages in large-scale industrial espionage By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark Documents from the archive of whistleblower and former NSA worker Edward Snowden show that Britain’s GCHQ signals intelligence… Read More ›
$1,000 BOUNTY offered for FINGERPRINTS of a GLOBAL SPY CHIEF
Privacy campaigner: NSA, GCHQ, NZSIS* – take your pick By John Leyden Posted in Security, 18th December 2013 14:31 GMT Privacy campaigner Simon Davies is offering a $1,000 bounty for the capture of the DNA and fingerprints of spy… Read More ›
Merkel compares NSA to ‘Stasi police’ in heated exchange with Obama
Wednesday, 18 December 2013 In an angry exchange with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel has compared the snooping practices of the US with those of the Stasi, the ubiquitous and all-powerful secret police of the communist dictatorship in East Germany, where… Read More ›
Snowden latest: NSA stalks the human race using Google, ad cookies
Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you By Iain Thomson Posted in Security, 12th December 2013… Read More ›
Spy agencies infiltrate gaming world
Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies NSA and GCHQ collect gamers’ chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life Read the NSA document: Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual… Read More ›
NSA Claims Call Spying Reports Are False
1 November 2013 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:13:57 +0100 Subject: update From: <xxxxx[at]gmail.com> To: Cryptome <cryptome[at]earthlink.net> In a letter to Dutch Parliament of October 31st [0], the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Ronald Plasterk)… Read More ›
US Agency new logo…. an Evil Octopus
Friday, 06 December 2013 Billions of dollars annually are being used to fund operations conducted by the United States intelligence community, the likes of which allow the government to eavesdrop on emails, listen to world leaders’ phone calls… Read More ›
NSA collects data revealing location of five billion mobile phones every day
The records allow US intelligence agents to establish not just the movements of individuals but to monitor who else they communicate with Lewis Smith Thursday, 5 December 2013 Almost five billion records revealing the location of mobile phones around the… Read More ›
Top secret document reveals NSA spies on porn habits of suspected terrorists in bid to discredit them
Document was revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden It shows agency spied on suspected radicalizers to harm their reputations Civil liberties campaigners have voiced concerns about the revelations One says: ‘NSA surveillance activities are anything but narrowly focused’ By Daily… Read More ›
Since When Are Your Phone Calls Private, Goverment Lawyer Asks
By NICK DIVITO MANHATTAN (CN) – Since Americans expect their phone companies to keep records of their calls, they have no basis to challenge the National Security Agency’s mass collection of that data, a lawyer for the government argued Friday…. Read More ›
Government Told to Explain Need for Secrecy “But says it’s a Secret “
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – The U.S. government must explain why a Feb. 19 order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court cannot be released to the public, even in a redacted form, a FISC judge ruled. In September 2013, Judge… Read More ›
NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities “anyone, anytime, anywhere.”
Latest Snowden leak reveals NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities Published time: November 23, 2013 04:05 The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb) In a mission statement last year the… Read More ›
US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons’ personal data
• 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material • UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet • Separate draft memo proposes US spying on ‘Five-Eyes’ allies James Ball theguardian.com, Wednesday 20 November 2013 14.00… Read More ›
Fisa court documents reveal extent of NSA disregard for privacy restrictions
Incensed Fisa court judges questioned NSA’s truthfulness after repeated breaches of rules meant to protect Americans’ privacy Fisa court judge John Bates found that the NSA engaged in ‘systemic overcollection’. Photograph: Paul J Richards/AFP Newly declassified court documents indicate that… Read More ›
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time
Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way The NSA’s metadata trawl was approved by a judge who felt the agency was asking for ‘exceptionally broad’ permission to… Read More ›
Germany warns US facilities could be targeted in wake of NSA leaks
Published time: November 12, 2013 22:13 The entrance to the US Airbase is pictured in Ramstein, southern German (AFP Photo / Daniel Roland) Officials in Germany have cautioned authorities to prepare for possible attacks against United States facilities overseas as… Read More ›
GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn site to target global mobile traffic exchange and OPEC – report
Published time: November 11, 2013 00:23 Edited time: November 11, 2013 01:05 Satellite dishes are seen at GCHQ’s outpost at Bude, close to where trans-Atlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest England (Reuters/Kieran Doherty) The UK’s electronic spying… Read More ›
Britain ‘snooped’ on Icelandic officials’ emails to recover cash from broken banks
Published time: November 10, 2013 12:06 AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm An Icelandic MP says Britain spied on Iceland while wrestling to rescue its citizens’ cash from collapsed Icelandic banks after the financial crisis. Birgitta Jónsdóttir claims she received… Read More ›
Terrorists and Criminals may now exploit all the vunerabilities the NSA and GCHQ had built into our systems
Berners-Lee: ‘Appalling and foolish’ NSA spying HELPS CRIMINALS Crooks rush in where spies boldly tread, says internet godhead By Jasper Hamill Posted in Security, 7th November 2013 14:58 GMT Sir Tim Berners-Lee, granddaddy of the internet, has attacked the NSA and… Read More ›
Mass spy programmes threaten freedom of expression: Snowden
03 Nov 2013 Berlin (AFP) US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says mass secret service surveillance poses a threat to freedom of expression and open society, in a text published in a German news magazine Sunday. Snowden, who faces criminal charges… Read More ›
Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection
NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows • Tapping fibre-optic cables – see the NSA slide Ewen MacAskill and Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Friday 1 November 2013… Read More ›