'The FSB are very good at what they do. We might never prove it' Germany fears NSA stole industrial secrets | Europe | DW.DE | 03.07. Trust between Washington and Berlin has been shaken by the scandal over the alleged bugging of German government and EU buildings by US intelligence agencies. Reacting angrily to the apparent widespread surveillance of telephone and email communications, German politicians have demanded a speedy explanation from Washington. The EU and Germany do, after all, see themselves as partners of the US.
While the outrage may be exaggerated, there are legitimate, unanswered questions. For example: Why is the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting such large amounts of data, and for what end is that data being used? The Trojan horse The chairman of the conservative Christian Social Union's small business group, Hans Michelbach, sees the surveillance of EU institutions by US intelligence agencies as a cause for alarm. "The EU is not a supporter of terrorism, but is indeed a strong competitor in the global economy," Michelbach said. Opportunity makes a thief EU-US trade agreement jeopardized. Why The NSA Leaks Will Lead To More Economic Espionage Against American Companies. Category:National Security Agency. Latest Leak Shows NSA Engaging In Economic Espionage -- Not Fighting Terrorism.
N.S.A Scandal and High-Tech Espionage on Brazil | Nikolas Kozloff. Is the U.S. ready to embrace the notion that Brazil has finally arrived on the world stage? Judging from the recent National Security Agency (N.S.A.) scandal, Washington is very skittish about the up and coming South American player. According to journalist Glen Greenwald, N.S.A. intercepts of Brazilian transmissions, including phone calls and internet communications, have been massive. Indeed, within the wider Americas region, N.S.A. snooping on the South American nation is second only to the U.S. in terms of overall scope. Writing in O Globo newspaper, Greenwald adds that the N.S.A. spied on the Brazilian Embassy in Washington and the South American nation's mission at the United Nations in New York. Needless to say, some Brazilian politicians are hardly amused by the revelations. Just why would the N.S.A. conduct industrial espionage on Brazil, a U.S. diplomatic partner?
Tensions over Sensitive Technology From Aerospace to Satellite Technology The Coming Satellite Rivalry. Is PRISM’s ‘Big Data’ about Big Money? Ever since former CIA employee Edward Snowden leaked information about the top secret PRISM program – a government system for monitoring vast amounts of electronic data – people have been asking what, exactly, the government does with all that data. The paranoid imagine that government eavesdroppers are listening in on their phone conversations and reading their intimate emails. Government officials assert that the system is used exclusively to fight terrorism, with a number of important successes. But given the vastness of the PRISM system and the large number of people with access to it, it’s reasonable to assume that much more than just fighting terrorism is going on.
Back in 2000, it was revealed that Britain, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand had established a joint intelligence gathering system called Echelon which searched for keywords in faxes, telexes and emails. But economic espionage may encompass far more. On June 6, Sen. Industry Backlash Against Surveillance Jeopardizes Cybersecurity. Russia Spots 'Ballistic Attack' in Mediterranean – Defense Ministry. MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – The launch of two "ballistic targets" has been detected in the Mediterranean, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday citing its ballistic missile early warning system. The launch was detected at 10:16 Moscow time (06:16 GMT) by a radar in the southern Russian city of Armavir, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. The targets’ trajectories ran from the central to the eastern Mediterranean, the spokesman said. A diplomatic source in the Syrian capital, Damascus, told RIA Novosti that the targets fell into the sea.
The Russian Embassy in Damascus said it did not have any information about the launch, and the streets and residents of the Syrian capital appeared calm, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported the launch to President Vladimir Putin, the spokesman told Russian journalists. The Defense Ministry's press service was not immediately available for further comment. Updates with information from Damascus. NSA-Affäre: Brasilien und Mexiko bestellen US-Botschafter ein. Spy Files 3. Russia Will Not Hand Snowden Over to US – Putin. MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti) – The United States “is possibly right” to seek the extradition of whistleblower Edward Snowden from Russia, but Moscow will not hand him over, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast Wednesday. “The problem is not that we’re defending Snowden. We’re not.
The problem is that we don’t have a mutual extradition treaty with the United States,” Putin said in an interview according to a transcript of his interview with The Associated Press and Russia’s Channel One television. “The United States refused to sign such a treaty with us. And they do not extradite our criminals… who have tortured people, trafficked people, whose hands are covered in blood,” Putin said, giving no further detail. “It’s clear that we’re not handing him over, he can feel safe here,” Putin said, according to a transcript of the interview on the Kremlin website. He added that Snowden was a “strange guy…who has doomed himself to a fairly complicated life.” Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security | World news | Guardian Weekly. US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.
The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments. The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – "the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet". But security experts accused them of attacking the internet itself and the privacy of all users. N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web. The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show.
Many users assume — or have been assured by Internet companies — that their data is safe from prying eyes, including those of the government, and the N.S.A. wants to keep it that way. The agency treats its recent successes in deciphering protected information as among its most closely guarded secrets, restricted to those cleared for a highly classified program code-named Bullrun, according to the documents, provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor. Beginning in 2000, as encryption tools were gradually blanketing the Web, the N.S.A. invested billions of dollars in a clandestine campaign to preserve its ability to eavesdrop. The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back | Bruce Schneier. Government and industry have betrayed the internet, and us.
By subverting the internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered and robust surveillance platform, the NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. The companies that build and manage our internet infrastructure, the companies that create and sell us our hardware and software, or the companies that host our data: we can no longer trust them to be ethical internet stewards. This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community. Yes, this is primarily a political problem, a policy matter that requires political intervention. But this is also an engineering problem, and there are several things engineers can – and should – do. One, we should expose. We need to know how exactly how the NSA and other agencies are subverting routers, switches, the internet backbone, encryption technologies and cloud systems.
NSA surveillance: how to stay secure | Bruce Schneier | World news. Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves. For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA stories, and have read hundreds of top-secret NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
I wasn't part of today's story – it was in process well before I showed up – but everything I read confirms what the Guardian is reporting. At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping secure against such an adversary. The primary way the NSA eavesdrops on internet communications is in the network. That's where their capabilities best scale. Leveraging its secret agreements with telecommunications companies – all the US and UK ones, and many other "partners" around the world – the NSA gets access to the communications trunks that move internet traffic. 1) Hide in the network. UK asked N.Y. Times to destroy Snowden material. Cryptome. CIA und deutsche Dienste betrieben jahrelanges Geheimprojekt in Neuss. Berlin - Der Bundesnachrichtendienst und das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz haben über Jahre ein gemeinsames Projekt mit dem US-Geheimdienst CIA betrieben.
Herzstück der Operation mit dem Namen "Projekt 6" oder kurz "P6" war nach SPIEGEL-Informationen eine Datenbank, in die Dienste Daten von mutmaßlichen Dschihadisten und Terrorunterstützern eingaben. Zweck der geheimen Kooperation war es, das Umfeld dieser Islamisten aufzuklären. Zudem sollten so Informationen über Menschen aus dem islamistischen Milieu gesammelt werden, um sie als Informanten werben zu können. Allerdings geriet so auch ein deutscher Journalist in den Fokus der Geheimdienste. Eine als geheim eingestufte amerikanische Anfrage an das "Projekt 6" nennt Passnummer, Geburtsdatum und Namen des NDR-Journalisten Stefan Buchen.
Für die Einheit "Projekt 6" mieteten die drei Geheimdienste ab 2005 Räumlichkeiten in der Innenstadt von Neuss an. Auch die Grünen reagieren empört auf die neuen SPIEGEL-Enthüllungen. News verfolgen. Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011. What had not been previously acknowledged is that the court in 2008 imposed an explicit ban — at the government’s request — on those kinds of searches, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used.
Together the permission to search and to keep data longer expanded the NSA’s authority in significant ways without public debate or any specific authority from Congress. The administration’s assurances rely on legalistic definitions of the term “target” that can be at odds with ordinary English usage. The enlarged authority is part of a fundamental shift in the government’s approach to surveillance: collecting first, and protecting Americans’ privacy later. “The government says, ‘We’re not targeting U.S. persons,’ ” said Gregory T. Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. The queries must be “reasonably likely to yield foreign intelligence information.” Senior administration officials disagree.
NSA hat angeblich Infrastruktur von Google und SWIFT gehackt. Die NSA spioniert gezielt interne Netzwerke großer Unternehmen, fremder Regierungen und von Finanzinstitutionen aus. Das berichtet der brasilianische Fernsehsender Globo unter Berufung auf neue Dokumente des NSA-Whistleblowers Edward Snowden. In einer Auflistung geknackter Netzwerke findet sich demnach unter anderem das des größten brasilianischen Erdölunternehmens Petrobras, die Infrastruktur von Google, ein internes Netz des französischen Außenministeriums und das Netzwerk von SWIFT, über das alle länderübergreifenden Finanztransaktionen laufen. Andere Ziele habe der Journalist Glenn Greenwald zum Schutz von US-Interessen vor der Übergabe des Dokuments geschwärzt. In der Zentrale von SWIFT Bild: SWIFT Dem Bericht zufolge wird in den Dokumenten erklärt, dass gegen die Netze "Man in the Middle"-Angriffe ausgeführt werden, bei denen Informationen über die NSA-Zentrale umgeleitet würden, ohne dass dies der Angegriffene bemerkt.
Der US-amerikanische Geheimdienstkoordinator James R. 16 Major Firms May Have Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters | Matt Taibbi. Die zweifach vergebene Chance - G20-Gipfel endet ohne Annäherung | Kommentar. G20-Gipfel endet ohne Annäherung Von Andreas Kolbe, Deutschlandfunk Lösungsversuche für den Syrien-Konflikt? Nicht beim G20-Gipfel. (picture alliance / dpa / Alexey Kudenko) Was für ein Reinfall! Die Befürworter eines Militärschlags gegen das Assad-Regime stehen den Gegnern unversöhnlich gegenüber.
Mit Blick auf die überbordende Staatsverschuldung in vielen G20-Ländern etwa haben die Staats- und Regierungschefs in Sankt Petersburg nur einen Minimal-Konsens erreicht: Für jedes Land haben sie individuelle Strategien zum Abbau der Schuldenquote vorgelegt, allerdings ohne dabei konkrete Ziele zu formulieren. Die Liste offen gebliebener Wirtschaftsfragen ließe sich beliebig fortsetzen. Wirtschaftspolitisch wird dieser Gipfel also nicht in die Geschichtsbücher eingehen. Fünf Jahre nach ihrem ersten Treffen auf Ebene der Staats- und Regierungschefs ist der Reformeifer der G20 also gründlich erlahmt.
Die zweifach vergebene Chance - G20-Gipfel endet ohne Annäherung | Kommentar. Sources: Syrian rebels plan chem attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories. NSA-Spionage: EU-Abgeordnete wollen Swift-Abkommen stoppen. Straßburg - Der US-Geheimdienst NSA späht offenbar auch Geldtransfers im globalen Bankennetzwerk Swift aus. Das könnte jetzt Konsequenzen haben, die über rein verbale Aufregung hinausgehen: Vier der sechs größten Fraktionen im Europaparlament stellen das transatlantische Swift-Abkommen in Frage. Vertreter von Sozialdemokraten, Liberalen, Grünen und Linken plädieren für die Aussetzung oder sogar das Ende des Vertrags zwischen EU und USA. Dieser regelt die Übermittlung ausgewählter Bankdaten von EU-Bürgern an amerikanische Terrorfahnder.
Der brasilianische Fernsehender TV Globo hatte berichtet, dass die NSA das Swift-Kommunikationsnetzwerk anzapft. Darüber werden beispielsweise internationale Überweisungen und andere Finanztransaktionen abgewickelt. "Die Amerikaner brechen offensichtlich in die Systeme ein. Wir werden an der Nase herumgeführt und unkontrolliert ausspioniert", sagte die Vizechefin des Straßburger Innenausschusses, Sophie in't Veld von den Liberalen. "Offener Rechtsbruch" Internet giants voice concern over NSA, GCHQ circumvention of encryption.
The big three: Sweden reacts to report of intel cooperation with NSA, GCHQ. Published time: September 07, 2013 04:24 Reuters / Nigel Roddis Sweden’s leaders came forward to express deep concern after a report alleged that the country’s spy agency has close ties with the NSA and GCHQ, and is the third major partner in surveillance cooperation. "It's a very serious matter if Sweden is indeed involved in American surveillance programs," Green Party IT policy spokeswoman Maria Ferm told Sweden’s The Local. "I'm very concerned about the information that came up in the hearing," she said. According to a report in the Metro daily, investigative journalist Duncan Campbell disclosed information about Sweden’s ties to the NSA during a hearing on the wiretapping scandal of a committee in the European Parliament. Campbell revealed that the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) provided the NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) access to Baltic underwater cables.
The FRA declined to comment on the report. Tor anonymity network could be ‘easily compromised,’ researcher says. Thousands protest NSA spying in Berlin (VIDEO) Legal loophole: US offers no apologies for hacking internet encryption. The big three: Sweden reacts to report of intel cooperation with NSA, GCHQ. Internet giants voice concern over NSA, GCHQ circumvention of encryption. NSA can tap into BlackBerry, iOS, and Android systems – report. German intelligence implicated in cooperating with CIA on Jihadists database. No economic espionage? NSA docs show US spied on Brazil oil giant Petrobras.
‘New urgency’ to stop NSA-spying after latest Snowden leak, congressman says. Professor told to delete NSA-related blog post from university site. Russia and China warn of 'spillover effect' on global economy from US stimulus tapering — RT Business. China, Russia agree on terms of multi-billion dollar gas deal — RT Business. Armenia chooses Russian trade deal over EU — RT Business. Armenia chooses Russian trade deal over EU — RT Business. Russia calls on G20 members to ban corrupt officials from international travel — RT Business. Russia calls on G20 members to ban corrupt officials from international travel — RT Business.
Norway is squeezing Russia out of European gas market — RT Business. Full speed ahead: Rosneft partners with Japan’s largest energy explorer — RT Business. Rosneft sets sights on Iraq and Venezuela — RT Business. Rosneft and Gazprom both awarded Arctic Shelf permits — RT Business. Rosneft to partner with Norway's Statoil in Arctic — RT Business. Norway overtakes Russia as Europe’s biggest gas supplier — RT Business. 750 billion dollar question: Norway voters decide future fate of massive oil fund — RT Business. No way to prevent FinFisher from getting into hands of repressive governments — RT Op-Edge. Monsanto took over regulatory bodies all over the world to lobby GMO — RT Op-Edge. US military sick and tired of war, have no faith in government — RT Op-Edge. Israel’s rocket test gives Obama his Cuban missile moment — RT Op-Edge. France cannot afford military operation in Syria — RT Op-Edge. Syrian impasse: A tragedy of errors — RT Op-Edge.
NSA has ability to read 75% of all US internet traffic - report. The war on Iran begins…in Syria — RT Op-Edge. The war on Iran begins…in Syria — RT Op-Edge. Susan Rice and the illusion of change — RT Op-Edge. Miranda’s detention: Intimidating journalists and their families new norm? — RT Op-Edge. Miranda’s detention: Intimidating journalists and their families new norm? — RT Op-Edge. Privacy rights don’t exist in US anymore — RT Op-Edge. Privacy rights don’t exist in US anymore — RT Op-Edge. Hacker accuses US government of tricking Anonymous into attacking foreign targets. Hacker pleads guilty to selling FBI 'supercomputer' secrets. NSA act like they are at war with ordinary US citizens — RT Op-Edge.
Why the US, UK, EU & Israel hate Syria — RT Op-Edge. Will the Eastern Mediterranean become the next Persian Gulf? - Foreign and Defense Policy. DER SPIEGEL 39/2011 - Eine Bombenidee. DER SPIEGEL 13/2005 - Bekenntnisse eines Killers. Griechenland: Anklage wegen Statistikfälscherei. Hellenic Statistical Authority: Did Eurostat make a bad deficit worse, for political purposes? | Greek Left Review. Gladio - Geheimarmeen in Europa - Anschlag in Athen: Zwei Bomben bei Wahlkampfveranstaltung von Karamanlis explodiert - Politik. Charges filed in alleged plot vs former Greek PM | World news. Eastern Mediterranean: New Cold War front? The Geopolitics of Israel’s Offshore Gas Reserves. Cyprus will create an LNG terminal to facilitate offshore gas discovery. UPDATE 2-Cyprus aims to be region energy hub with LNG terminal. Greek, Nordic Rare Earths Could Save European Industry. The New Oil Exploration Map In Greece- Capital.
Gasfunde im östlichen Mittelmeer - der "dritte Korridor"? Gasfunde im östlichen Mittelmeer - der "dritte Korridor"? Inbox - m.ivanov.sci - Gmail. Energie: Riesiges Erdgaslager vor Küste Zyperns entdeckt. Finanzminister: Zypern will Schulden mit Gasreserven zurückzahlen 31.01.2013. Finanzminister: Zypern will Schulden mit Gasreserven zurückzahlen 31.01.2013. Ölfund vor der Küste Kretas.
The U.S. Looks To Exploit The Greek Re-Default [SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, Noble Energy, Inc., Global X Funds] Vast gas fields found off Israel's shores cause trouble at home and abroad. Erdgas und Rohstoffe: Sitzen die Griechen auf immensen Reichtümern? - Erdgas und Rostoffe. Showdown - Quellenverzeichnis. Greece looks out to sea for gas wealth salvation. Syria: What's Behind the Conflict.