NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware

T.C. Sottek The Verge 12/29/2013

According to a new report from Der Spiegel based on internal NSA documents, the signals intelligence agency’s elite hacking unit (TAO) is able to conduct sophisticated wiretaps in ways that make Hollywood fantasy look more like reality. The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, […]

NSA masqueraded as Google to spy on web users – report

RT 9/13/2013

The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all the data entered to NSA data banks.

Brazilian television network Globo News released a report based on classified data divulged […]

Iranians used University of Michigan network in recent bank attacks

Iran Strikes Back

Bill Gertz The Washington Free Beacon 10/15/2012

Iranian hackers took over a University of Michigan computer network during a massive cyber attack on U.S. financial systems last week that continued following comments on the strike by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

According to reports by a leading Internet security-monitoring firm, the cyber attacks […]

Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday

The Associated Press via FoxNews.com 7/5/2012

The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website.

But tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers […]

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