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The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle

The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The hack was perpetrated by a joint unit consisting of operatives from the NSA and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. The breach, detailed in a secret 2010 GCHQ document, gave the surveillance agencies the potential to secretly monitor a large portion of the world’s cellular communications, including both voice and data. The company targeted by the intelligence agencies, Gemalto, is a multinational firm incorporated in the Netherlands that makes the chips used in mobile phones and next-generation credit cards. In all, Gemalto produces some 2 billion SIM cards a year. “It’s unbelievable. GCHQ slide. Related:  News Worthy of Thought

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BREAKING: The NSA Is Hiding Spyware In The Hard Drives Of Major Computers It was reported this week that the NSA has discovered how to hide spyware inside the hard drives of consumer computers. According to recent reports, the software allows the NSA to eavesdrop on pretty much any activity that is taking place on the computer. This recent development was discovered by the Russian cyber-security company Kaspersky Lab, when they found personal computers in 30 countries infected with one or more spy programs connected with the NSA. The company did not actually come out and say that the NSA was responsible, but said that the country behind the software was closely linked to Stuxnet, a cyberweapon virus that was created by the NSA and US intelligence forces to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Once the report was released, the story was confirmed by former NSA analysts, who said that the program and the spyware does actually exist. According to Kaspersky’s research, some of the top companies in the industry have NSA spyware in their computers. Trending on the Web

Why Mozilla Was Right: GCHQ & NSA Track Cookies Subscribe to this blog About Author Glyn Moody's look at all levels of the enterprise open source stack. Contact Author Email Glyn Twitter Profile Linked-in Profile During 2013, I've written a few articles about Mozilla's attempt to give users greater control over the cookies placed on their systems, and how the European arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) tried to paint this as Mozilla "undermining the openness", or "hijacking" the Internet because it dared to stand up for us in this way. The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. The agency's internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government.

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nothing to hide 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. 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. Two, we can design.

‘Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special’ Delivers Huge Ratings For NBC privacy NSA and GCHQ unlock privacy and security on the internet 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.

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