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DoD, FCC NSA Set To Destroy 1st Amendment On Internet
I open this with a video the DoD put out to show you how serious this is ! The open and free Internet Is under fire ! DoD, DARPA and the NSA - http://www.def...

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Wikileaks spox: Google is a privatised NSA with sinister goals
Watch the full episode here: http://youtu.be/Hu1cm3rd5f4 Afshin Rattansi goes underground on Google #39;s shady privacy record. Kristinn Hrafnsson, lawyer for Wi...

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Most hackers are good people fmr spy, author on cyber-attacks NSA
In the wake of a Kapersky report about an unprecedented $1 billion cyber-attack on financial institutions, Robert Steel tells RT why ordinary people should b...

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NSA Hiding Undetectable Spyware in Hard Drives Worldwide

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Video:Jeb Bush Backs NSA Powers

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is seriously considering a run for the White House in 2016, said Wednesday that the National Security Agencys program that collects bulk telephone records was hugely important, throwing his support behind the practice as Congress debates whether to reauthorize or limit it.

At an event on foreign policy hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Mr. Bush, a Republican, said, For the life of me, I dont understand the debate over the metadata program.

The programs many supporters say it helps the U.S. government prevent terrorist attacks. But its critics believe it exists with little oversight and few boundaries and could allow the government to spy on U.S. citizens.

Mr. Bushs comments are significant, as the legal authority that allows the program to exist is set to expire in June. Congress is weighing whether to rework the program in a way that would strip the NSA of some of its powers.

Details of the NSAs metadata bulk collection program were exposed in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, prompting a vigorous national debate over how much power the government should have to spy on people.

Mr. Bushs support for the metadata program puts him in sharp contrast with another likely GOP White House candidate, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Mr. Paul is a critic of the NSA, and has joined a class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration over the NSAs spying practices. He also voted against a bill that would restrain some of the NSAs powers last year, saying it didnt go far enough.

Mr. Paul is popular with the libertarian wing of the GOP, and Mr. Bush as he made evident during his comments in Chicago supports more government spending on the military and a broader military influence.

Messrs. Bush and Paul will likely square off over the privacy issue on the campaign trail but also during GOP debates.

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Game Film: NSA Gorfam 250 #39; 1-Pitch Softball Tournament
Game film from the NSA Gorfam 250 1-Pitch tournament at Indian Springs Softball Complex in Broken Arrow, OK. Brought to you by RedDirtSoftball.com. Like us at facebook.com/reddirtsoftball...

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Ex-NSA chief linked to alleged coup plot
Sen. Antonio Trillanes involves former National Security Adviser (NSA) Norberto Gonzales in the coup attempt against President Aquino. Subscribe to ABS-CBN News channel!

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Kaspersky Lab uncovers online spy tools with potential NSA connections
The Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab has discovered new methods allegedly used by a group known as the #39;Equation Group #39;, potentially linked to America #39;s National Security Agency, to establish...

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NSA Hacks Hard Drives - Daily Security Byte EP.25
In this short, daily video post, Corey Nachreiner, CISSP and Director of Security Strategy for WatchGuard Technologies, shares the biggest InfoSec story from the day -- often sharing useful...

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CANCUN, Mexico In 2009, one or more prestigious researchers received a CD by mail that contained pictures and other materials from a recent scientific conference they attended in Houston. The scientists didn't know it then, but the disc also delivered a malicious payload developed by a highly advanced hacking operation that had been active since at least 2001. The CD, it seems, was tampered with on its way through the mail.

It wasn't the first time the operatorsdubbed the "Equation Group" by researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Labhad secretly intercepted a package in transit, booby-trapped its contents, and sent it to its intended destination. In 2002 or 2003, Equation Group members did something similar with an Oracle database installation CD in order to infect a different target with malware from the group's extensive library. (Kaspersky settled on the name Equation Group because of members' strong affinity for encryption algorithms, advanced obfuscation methods, and sophisticated techniques.)

Kaspersky researchers have documented 500 infections by Equation Group inat least 42 countries, with Iran, Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Syria, and Mali topping the list. Because of a self-destruct mechanism built into the malware, the researchers suspect that this is just a tiny percentage of the total; the actual number of victims likely reaches into the tens of thousands.

A long list of almost superhuman technical feats illustrateEquation Group's extraordinary skill, painstaking work, and unlimited resources. Theyinclude:

Taken together, the accomplishments led Kaspersky researchers to conclude that Equation Group is probably the most sophisticated computer attack group in the world, with technical skill and resources that rival the groups that developed Stuxnet and theFlame espionage malware.

"It seems to me Equation Group are the ones with the coolest toys," Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab's global research and analysis team, told Ars. "Every now and then they share them with the Stuxnet group and the Flame group, but they are originally available only to the Equation Group people. Equation Group are definitely the masters, and they are giving the others, maybe, bread crumbs. From time to time they are giving them some goodies to integrate into Stuxnet and Flame."

In an exhaustive report published Monday at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit here, researchers stopped short of saying Equation Group was the handiwork of the NSAbut they provided detailed evidence that strongly implicates the US spy agency.

First is the group's known aptitude for conducting interdictions, such as installing covert implant firmware in a Cisco Systems router as it moved through the mail.

Second, a highly advanced keylogger in the Equation Group library refers to itself as "Grok" in its source code. The reference seems eerily similar to a line published last March in an Intercept article headlined "How the NSA Plans to Infect 'Millions' of Computers with Malware." The article, which was based on Snowden-leaked documents, discussed an NSA-developed keylogger called Grok.

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