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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA is increasingly engaging in domestic surveillance, data collection, and data mining. The result is essentially the same as Total Information Awareness. According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game

2008-05-10 01:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...NSA's toolkit for infiltrating, corrupting or destroying computer networks The 34 Army cadets comprising the West Point IT team operated in a different kind of battlefield, but their combat skills and instincts need to be every bit as sharp. Like George Washington said: "There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to...
 
Tags: army university, army, custom-built networks, networks, nsa, army cadets, west, cadets, network
 
 
 
 
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James Bamford Interview on the NSA

2008-12-18 06:42:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA was never designed for what it's doing. It was designed after World War II to prevent another surprise attack from another nation-state, particularly the Soviet Union. And from 1945 or '46 until 1990 or '91, that's what its mission was. That's what every piece of equipment, that's what every person recruited to the agency, was supposed to...
 
Tags: nsa, world war, world, war, world trade center, channels, navy channels, soviet union, army channels
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA's role in cyber-security were reported in the Baltimore Sun in September According to congressional aides and former White House officials with knowledge of the program, the directive outlines measures collectively referred to as the "cyber initiative," aimed at securing the government's computer systems against attacks by foreign...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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NSA Patent on Network Tampering Detection

2008-12-30 12:07:06 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA has patented a technique to detect network tampering : The NSA's software does this by measuring the amount of time the network takes to send different types of data from one computer to another and raising a red flag if something takes too long, according to the patent filing Other researchers have looked into this problem in the past...
 
Tags: patent, network, nsa patent takes, nsa, takes, detect network, network layers, network takes, data
 
 
 
 
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The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity

2008-09-18 06:34:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA are so interested in this proposal in the first place It's hard to figure out what the endgame is; the U.N. doesn't have the authority to impose Internet standards on anyone. In any case, this idea is counter to the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this...
 
Tags: government, chinese government, chinese, articles, negative articles, government publishes articles, source, proposal, original source
 
 
 
 
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EFF files surveillance lawsuit against NSA, Bush, Cheney

2008-09-18 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other government officials, alleging that an NSA electronic surveillance program continues to illegally spy on U.S. residents
 
Tags: president george bush, national security agency, electronic frontier foundation, nsa, government officials, lawsuit, eff, spy, filed
 
 
 
 
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Hardening OS 10.5 Leapord-Tips from the NSA

2008-09-22 19:46:48 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...NSA, from accessing ones Mac, it should significantly improve ones security posture against less capable hackers Tips cover user accounts, admin accounts, firewalls, software updates, folder permissions and more. For a few quick tips read the full article or if you have time, download to the NSA guide
 
Tags: nsa, completely comprehensive guide, nsa guide, national security agency, leapord, admin accounts, information week, configuration guide, government agency
 
 
 
 
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NSA Backdoors in Crypto AG Ciphering Machines

2008-01-11 06:51:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA, also known as No Such Agency, had rigged the Crypto AG machines in various ways according to the targeted countries. It is probably no exaggeration to state that this 20th century version of the "Trojan horse" is quite likely the greatest sting in modern history We don't know the truth here, but the article lays out the evidence pretty well
 
Tags: crypto, machines, company, swiss company, company web site, century, 20th century version, military messages, countries
 
 
 
 
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Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret History of TEMPEST

2008-04-30 04:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The secret history of how the nation's spies discovered that their ace equipment was leaking data into the ether has never been told before. But now a declassified NSA document tells how a Bell Telephone engineer stumbled onto a problem that vexes the agency to this day