Now this is good news. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) — part of GCHQ — found a serious vulnerability in Windows Defender (their anti-virus component). Instead of keeping it secret and all of us vulnerable, it alerted Microsoft.
I’d like believe the US does this, too.
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December 19, 2017 disclosure, gchq, Security technology, vulnerabilities, windows Read more >
Le Monde and the Intercept are reporting about NSA spying in Africa, and NSA spying on in-flight mobile phone calls — both from the Snowden documents.
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December 8, 2016 airtravel, cellphones, edwardsnowden, espionage, gchq, nsa, Security technology, uk Read more >
The Intercept has an extraordinary story: the NSA and/or GCHQ hacked into the Dutch SIM card manufacturer Gemalto, stealing the encryption keys for billions of cell phones. People are still trying to figure out exactly what this means, but it seems to mean that the intelligence agencies have access to both voice and data from all phones using those cards.
Me in The Register: “We always knew that they would occasionally steal SIM keys. But all of them? The odds that they just attacked this one firm are extraordinarily low and we know the NSA does like to steal keys where it can.”
I think this is one of the most important Snowden stories we’ve read.
More news stories. Slashdot thread. Hacker News thread.
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February 20, 2015 cellphones, databases, eavesdropping, edwardsnowden, gchq, hacking, nsa, phones, privacy, Security technology, simcards, surveillance Read more >
In the latest article based on the Snowden documents, the Intercept is reporting that the NSA and GCHQ are piggy-backing on the work of hackers:
In some cases, the surveillance agencies are obtaining the content of emails by monitoring hackers as they breach email accounts, often without notifying the hacking victims of these breaches. “Hackers are stealing the emails of some of our targets…by collecting the hackers’ ‘take,’ we…get access to the emails themselves,” reads one top secret 2010 National Security Agency document.
Not surprising.
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February 6, 2015 edwardsnowden, gchq, hacking, intelligence, nsa, privacy, Security technology, surveillance Read more >
A new story based on the Snowden documents and published in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung shows how the GCHQ worked with Cable & Wireless — acquired by Vodafone in 2012 — to eavesdrop on Internet and telecommunications traffic. New documents on the page, and here.
Ars Technica article. Slashdot thread.
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November 26, 2014 eavesdropping, edwardsnowden, gchq, phones, privacy, Security technology, surveillance Read more >