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A secretive special air service base has been inadvertently revealed by a fitness app that has created a heatmap of running routes around the country.
A SAS base in Hereford, along with a nuclear deterrent naval base and the government's spy agency GCHQ has been placed on a heatmap of Strava's customers, including the profiles of several people who regularly run to-and-from the highly sensitive buildings.
The buildings appear on a global, interactive map created by Strava, which is an app that allows users to track cycling or running speeds and distances and share them with friends. But unbeknown to many of its users, Strava has used their location data to in a worldwide heatmap including three trillion coordinates, titled "Where We Play".
"When sensitive sites, such as the GCHQ, are quite literally highlighted by GPS activity, it raises concern not only for the individual connected to the device, but the institution as a whole. The UK’s security services must be hyper-aware of what they’re sharing – regardless of what may be labelled as ‘excluded’ within the device. If a device or application has the capability to share location in any respect, it signifies a breach in security protocols."
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Wikileaks hat Dokumente der NSA veröffentlicht, die US-Spionage gegen die letzten drei französischen Präsidenten belegen sollen. Ein US-Vertreter versicherte, man spioniere François Hollande nicht aus. Für die Vergangenheit tat er das nicht.
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Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor and whistleblower, has leaked documents that claim the US National Security Agency (NSA) and UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have actively reverse engineered security and anti-virus software to obtain intelligence, according to a report by The Intercept.
The documents obtained reportedly highlight the Russian software security firm, Kaspersky Lab, as one of the main targets, with GCHQ reverse-engineering Kaspersky's anti-virus software looking for vulnerabilities that could be subverted.
The Intercept posted an NSA document titled "Project Camberdada" that lists at least 23 antivirus and security firms that were in that spy agency's sights -- none of the companies were of U.K. or U.S. origin, but there was more than one firm from the country in which Snowden now calls home.
Earlier this month, Eugene Kaspersky said in a blog post that his firm had recently discovered an advanced attack on its software. The security mogul said that his company was quite confident that there was a nation state behind the attack, but made it clear that he did not wish to attribute it.
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Die Geheimdienste der USA und Großbritanniens können offenbar die SIM-Karten in Mobiltelefonen entschlüsseln. Das berichtet die Internetseite "The Intercept". Handys seien somit unauffällig anzapfbar. Der Bericht bezieht sich auf ein Snowden-Papier.
===> Der gläserne Surfer!!! <===
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The U.K. and U.S. government's ability to tap into webcams — and directly into your living rooms and offices — shows the biggest and most blatant lack of respect for people's privacy by Western governments in living memory.
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According to the latest Snowden leaks, Britain's GCHQ can remotely control iPhones and Android devices using "targeted" tools. Meanwhile, the NSA can tap "leaky" apps to determine a person's age and location, and in some cases even their sexual orientation and political views.
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On November 7th, Brazil and Germany jointly proposed a preliminary version of a resolution on online privacy at the UN General Assembly. At a time when public outrage over the reach and scope of U.K. and U.S.
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British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters reportedly used spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to compromise the computers of network engineers working for global roaming exchange providers based in Europe.
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Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal...
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Die Bundesregierung wurde vom US-Geheimdienst NSA offenbar noch massiver ausspioniert, als bislang bekannt. Wikileaks hat neue Geheimdokumente enthüllt, die Dutzende Spionageziele in verschiedenen Bundesministerien auflisten.
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Newly-published documents from the Snowden trove show GCHQ asking for and obtaining special permission to infringe on the copyright of software programs that it wished to reverse-engineer for the purpose of compromising them. GCHQ wanted a warrant that would give it indemnity against legal action from the companies owning the software in the unlikely event that they ever found out.
The legal justification for this permission is dubious. As the new report in The Intercept explains: "GCHQ obtained its warrant under section 5 of the 1994 Intelligence Services Act [ISA], which covers interference with property and 'wireless telegraphy' by the Security Service (MI5), Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and GCHQ." Significantly, Section 5 of the ISA does not mention interference in abstractions like copyright, but in 2005 the intelligence services commissioner approved the activity anyway.
The Intercept story provides details of the software that GCHQ wanted to compromise: online bulletin board systems, commercial encryption software, and anti-virus programs. It needed to prevent the last of these from revealing the presence of other GCHQ malware that was used for spying: "Personal security products such as the Russian anti-virus software Kaspersky continue to pose a challenge to GCHQ’s CNE [computer network exploitation] capability and SRE [software reverse engineering] is essential in order to be able to exploit such software and to prevent detection of our activities."
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Die Geheimdienste wollen erfahren, wie sie beim Angriff auf Rechner den Virenschutz umgehen können. Auch der deutsche Hersteller Avira wurde offenbar bespitzelt.
Fast zwei Wochen nachdem bekannt wurde, dass Anti-Viren-Hersteller Kaspersky Ziel eines Hackerangriffs geworden war, scheint jetzt wahrscheinlich, dass die NSA und ihr britisches Gegenstück GCHQ dahinter steckten. Auch war der Angriff wohl kein Einzelfall, wie die Snowden-Dokumente nahelegen. Konkurrenten von Kaspersky wie Avast, AVG, Eset, F-Secure und der deutsche Hersteller Avira sollen ebenfalls ausspioniert worden sein.
Dabei ging es den Geheimdiensten wohl gezielt darum, zu erfahren, wie der Virenschutz der einzelnen Hersteller beim Angriff auf Zielrechner umgangen werden kann.
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The mass surveillance of the Internet conducted by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence and security organization, was unlawful, according to a ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a secretive court that was created to monitor Britain’s intelligence agencies.
According to the IPT ruling, GCHQ’s access to information, intercepted by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to a private and family life. In addition, the GCHQ spying also breached the rights to a fair trial, The Independent reported, adding that the latest court ruling could eventually allow people to ask GCHQ to delete any information.
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• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk • 1.8m users targeted by GCHQ in six-month period alone • Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy' • Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images
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Civil liberties committee report demands end to indiscriminate collection of personal data by British and US agencies
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Über gefälschte LinkedIn-Seiten verschafft sich der britische Geheimdienst GCHQ Zugang zu den Rechnern von Zielpersonen.
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The spooks at Brit intelligence agency GCHQ have been secretly tapping hundreds of fibre-optic cables to slurp data, according to leaked documents seen by The Guardian.
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Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009
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A secretive special air service base has been inadvertently revealed by a fitness app that has created a heatmap of running routes around the country.
A SAS base in Hereford, along with a nuclear deterrent naval base and the government's spy agency GCHQ has been placed on a heatmap of Strava's customers, including the profiles of several people who regularly run to-and-from the highly sensitive buildings.
The buildings appear on a global, interactive map created by Strava, which is an app that allows users to track cycling or running speeds and distances and share them with friends. But unbeknown to many of its users, Strava has used their location data to in a worldwide heatmap including three trillion coordinates, titled "Where We Play".
"When sensitive sites, such as the GCHQ, are quite literally highlighted by GPS activity, it raises concern not only for the individual connected to the device, but the institution as a whole. The UK’s security services must be hyper-aware of what they’re sharing – regardless of what may be labelled as ‘excluded’ within the device. If a device or application has the capability to share location in any respect, it signifies a breach in security protocols."
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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/naivety-in-the-digital-age/
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