Russian researchers expose breakthrough US spying program – Reuters

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:42am IST Link this Share this By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to Email Print The word password on a computer screen is magnified with a magnifying glass in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski/Files SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world s computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives. That long-sought and closely guarded ability was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker th
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