The German weekly Der Spiegel, on the basis of new documents provided by the detector
Snowden describes a real task force of “cyber-spies”
“Getting the impossible”: it is the mission of the Tao (Tailored Access Operations), the special unit of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to which they are assigned some targeted operations: the most delicate, there where all fail other instruments of the powerful spy agency whose methods have been unveiled by the papers of the “mole” Edward Snowden.
talk about the Tao is the German weekly Der Spiegel, which – on the basis of new documents supplied by Snowden – describes a real task force of “cyber-spies.” Of a group of computer geniuses able to intercept any type of data and metadata has and violate any electronic device. Including computers ordered online, many of which are secretly “modified” to be able to then install “spyware” or “malawi” able to force any kind of password or pin code.
of the modern James Bond, 007 of the Tao utlizzano first high-tech tools to “crack” any type of personal computers: cables for monitors artfully modified to record what is written on the screen, a USB stick where are inserted “bugs” that can transmit stolen data over radio waves. Going for hard disk modified to intercept the signals of mobile phones.
But hackers of the Tao, operating from a former Sony plant in San Antonio, Texas, go beyond. They can – according to what tells Der Spiegel – to exploit the loopholes and weaknesses of the most popular computer systems, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, allowing them to penetrate even the most secret information.
Tao had already risen to the headlines last October for the operation “Flatliquid” invasive action of U.S. intelligence in the heart of the Mexican State, including espionage of the Internet and of the Mexican Presidency ‘ e-mail account of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon. One of the most embarrassing pages of Datagate.
always according to Spiegel, the Tao in February has hacked the computer network of a number of companies that used the telecommunications submarine cable SEA-ME-WE 4, which departs from Marseille and connects North Africa to southern Europe and Asia. Among the companies that use the cable there is the French Orange (formerly France Telecom), which contacted the French media after the revelation of the news, did you know that these maneuvers intrusion were made “entirely without our knowledge,” and that would be ready to take legal action if it occurs that there was an attempt to intercept the data.
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