New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto - Politics. 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. The covert U.S. operation was no secret to Canadian authorities. An NSA briefing note describes the American agency's operational plans at the Toronto summit meeting and notes they were "closely co-ordinated with the Canadian partner.
" The secret documents do not reveal the precise targets of so much espionage by the NSA — and possibly its Canadian partner — during the Toronto summit. Economic and political espionage. NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software. Photo Corbis News 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. One example of this type of hacking was discovered in September 2013 at the Belgium telecom provider Belgacom. NSA special department employs more than a thousand hackers The NSA computer attacks are performed by a special department called TAO (Tailored Access Operations).
Cyber operations are increasingly important for the NSA. Read on about: De NSA-dossiers Edward Snowden Glenn Greenwald. Contagious Courage. Contagious Courage An interview with Sarah Harrison of Wikileaks: Julian Assange’s associate and Snowden’s guardian angel By John Goetz and Bastian Obermayer There she sits: the woman who has spent the past four months at Edward Snowden’s side. First in Hong Kong, then in Moscow. The two made history and charted new global politics within this short span of time. Sarah Harrison, 31, a journalist and Wikileaks staffer, wears black leggings, a dark grey blouse and a wool cardigan as she sits on an old office chair in a basement meeting place, between file folders, tangled cables, blank CDs and computers. The exact location of the meeting may not be reported.
Who is this woman, who has spent so much time by Snowden’s side, resisting the pressures of the world power, the United States? Sarah Harrison closes her eyes. A statement? And then just three words: “Courage is contagious.” The reason for Harrison’s departure from Moscow is simple: Snowden doesn’t need anyone at hand in Moscow anymore. NSA and Wall Street: online activity shrinks, changes post-Snowden. Our recent survey about consumer opinion in the wake of the Snowden revelations about mass NSA electronic surveillance suggests that the economic implications could be deeper than experts have yet acknowledged, including negative impact on corporate profits and GDP. At the same time, like every economic challenge, the NSA revelations present some interesting opportunities for the enterprising. [Update November 15: A podcast on this topic is now online. Also, the first We Live Security article discussing these survey results is online here] The digital economy takes a hit How could the Snowden/NSA news damage GDP and profits?
And retail banking is just one of many sectors of the economy that has been relying on ever-increasing levels of online activity to maintain profitability. Consumer spending drives the American economy and shifting that spending from brick-and-mortar stores to the digital realm has been a key strategy for retail firms. Giant feet of clay Ouch! Author Stephen Cobb, ESET. Survey says 77% of Americans reject NSA mass electronic surveillance, of Americans. [Update November 24: Added link to second part of "Snowden effect" survey results and a podcast: Is NSA Surveillance Affecting Online Behavior?]
On October 26, the 12th anniversary of the signing of the USA Patriot Act, thousands of Americans joined the Stop Watching Us protest in Washington, D.C. The event garnered a lot of media attention and delivered 575,000 signatures on a petition demanding that the U.S. Congress reveal “the full extent of the NSA’s spying programs”. But do most Americans oppose the kind of mass electronic surveillance that has been revealed by “the Snowden papers”? The answer is a resounding Yes, according to recent survey commissioned by ESET. 77% of American adults surveyed disagreed with the following statement: It is okay for my government secretly to monitor all of our communications. While one third said they simply disagreed, an impressive 44% said they strongly disagreed.
The Terrorism Factor The Us v. The Economic Factor Author Stephen Cobb, ESET. 'Courage Is Contagious': Additional NSA Employees Said to Be Following Snowden's Lead. Homeland Security logo reflected in the eyeglasses of a cybersecurity analyst at the agency’s secretive cyber defense facility in Idaho. The Government Accountability Project's Jesselyn Raddack says that Snowden's courage has become contagious among other NSA employee. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)The "courage" of Edward Snowden is "contagious," according to lawyer and transparency advocate Jesselyn Radack, who says that additional employees at the National Security Agency are now coming forward with what they consider objectionable practices by their employer.
Jesselyn Raddack, Government Accountability Project. According to Radack, several more whistleblowers have approached the Government Accountability Project (GAP)—the nation's leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization where she is the director of National Security and Human Rights—since Snowden's story broke earlier this year. The Obama administration's "war on whistleblowers" is backfiring, said Radack.
GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance | UK news. The German, French, Spanish and Swedish intelligence services have all developed methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic over the past five years in close partnership with Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency. The bulk monitoring is carried out through direct taps into fibre optic cables and the development of covert relationships with telecommunications companies. A loose but growing eavesdropping alliance has allowed intelligence agencies from one country to cultivate ties with corporations from another to facilitate the trawling of the web, according to GCHQ documents leaked by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The files also make clear that GCHQ played a leading role in advising its European counterparts how to work around national laws intended to restrict the surveillance power of intelligence agencies. 'Huge potential' "Very friendly crypt meeting with DGSE in July," British officials reported.
Fresh opportunities European allies. 'Courage Is Contagious': Additional NSA Employees Said to Be Following Snowden's Lead.