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NSA 'hacking unit' infiltrates computers around the world – report

The Guardian: A top-secret National Security Agency hacking unit infiltrates computers around the world and breaks into the toughest data targets, according to internal documents quoted in a magazine report on Sunday.

Details of how the division, known as Tailored Access Operations (TAO), steals data and inserts invisible "back door" spying devices into computer systems were published by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

The magazine portrayed TAO as an elite team of hackers specialising in gaining undetected access to intelligence targets that have proved the toughest to penetrate through other spying techniques, and described its overall mission as "getting the ungettable". The report quoted an official saying that the unit's operations have obtained "some of the most significant intelligence our country has ever seen"

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A cyberattack kept the whole country's government offline for a month

A cyberattack kept the whole country's government offline for a month.

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Steve Jobs's Apple-1 prototype computer sold at auction for about $700,000

Steve Jobs's Apple-1 prototype computer sold at auction for about $700,000. Paul Terrell, the proprietor of one of the earliest computer stores in the world,

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The CIA and NSA use ad-blockers because they're just as vulnerable as you are

Online advertisements have become so dangerous that even the U.S. Intelligence Community blocks them.

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