Tuesday, June 11, 2013

A Look At The NSA's Team Of Hackers And Spies Targeting America's Enemies Abroad.


Inside The NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group -- Matthew M. Aid, Foreign Policy

Deep within the National Security Agency, an elite, rarely discussed team of hackers and spies is targeting America's enemies abroad.

This weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two leaders spoke at length about the topic du jour -- cyber-espionage -- a subject that has long frustrated officials in Washington and is now front and center with the revelations of sweeping U.S. data mining. The media has focused at length on China's aggressive attempts to electronically steal U.S. military and commercial secrets, but Xi pushed back at the "shirt-sleeves" summit, noting that China, too, was the recipient of cyber-espionage. But what Obama probably neglected to mention is that he has his own hacker army, and it has burrowed its way deep, deep into China's networks.

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Update #1: The NSA Has A Secret Group Called 'TAO' That's Been Hacking China For 15 Years -- Business Insider
Update #2: Secret NSA hackers from TAO Office have been pwning China for nearly 15 years -- Computer World

My Comment: I like to quote Buddha in situations like this one .... if you point a finger at someone, you are actually pointing three at your self. The U.S. has pointed a finger at China over cyber hacking and cyber warfare ....  but as we have learned in the past week with Edward Snowden's NSA revelations .... the U.S. was actually pointing three fingers at themselves.

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