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Computer Software => Security => Topic started by: roseway on February 18, 2015, 07:32:18 AM

Title: NSA hardware hacking
Post by: roseway on February 18, 2015, 07:32:18 AM

Here's an article to give you some sleepless nights...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

Title: Re: NSA hardware hacking
Post by: renluop on February 18, 2015, 12:56:48 PM

Should we also find this

Quote

by researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab

disturbing in view of developing situations? What is relationship and influence with Kapersky UK?

Title: Re: NSA hardware hacking
Post by: burakkucat on February 18, 2015, 05:00:39 PM

Equation Group Q&A (http://25zbkz3k00wn2tp5092n6di7b5k.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2015/02/Equation_group_questions_and_answers.pdf) (A PDF file).

Title: Re: NSA hardware hacking
Post by: boost on February 18, 2015, 06:11:05 PM

I read this article and couldn't get my head around the relationship between:

the NSA
the Eq group
Kaspersky?!

Are we supposed to accept that it's OK for the NSA to... do bad things to hard drives almost everywhere?  :)

Title: Re: NSA hardware hacking
Post by: burakkucat on February 18, 2015, 06:19:52 PM

Quote from: boost on February 18, 2015, 06:11:05 PM

the NSA

But there is No Such Agency. (Or so we were told.)  :D