This is evident from documents klokkenluiderd Edward Snowden, where the intercept message.
The NSA has made plans for the large-scale hack between November 2011 and February 2012. The secret services used the hacktool Xkeyscore to identify Internet traffic from smartphones and then traffic to Google Play and the App store from Samsung to filter out.
Then, the NSA hacks into the connection of the smartphone or tablet rogue software to send to the device. The spyware collects data and transmits the data to the NSA without the user here knows about.
A hack which data is intercepted and abused, is called a man-in-the-middle attack between two parties. A Dutch server who cared for app downloads was targeted by the NSA.
Google and Samsung will both do not react to the news.
Arab Spring
According to the documents wanted by the US government hacking attack another Arab Spring ‘predict’. This wave of protests and revolutions causes since December 2010 unrest in the Arab world.
The NSA would in particular have focused on targets in the African countries of Senegal, Sudan and Congo.
UC Browser
The NSA discovered by hacking vulnerabilities in the UC browser, a browser app that especially in China and India is very popular. The Secret Service abusing the vulnerabilities to gather sensitive information about users.
According to the documents the NSA by the vulnerabilities in the UC Browser prevent a planned terrorist attack. A spokesman for UC Browser reports that there is “no evidence that users’ personal information was leaked,” but the news or to take very seriously.
Network Trad Craft Advancement Team
NSA has worked with several other countries to install spyware on smartphones and tablets. Among others, the secret services of Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia took part in the project. The collaboration was called the Network Trad Craft Advancement Team.
The Canadian secret service reports that it “collects foreign signals to protect the country from terrorism.” The other countries report that includes all practices carried out under the law
This we know from eavesdropping by the NSA
No comments:
Post a Comment