Anew theme from The Intercept revealsthat the NSA has been hunt and hacking system administrators the domain over in society to gain access to the networks they contain .
Ahandful of screengrabssupplied by Edward Snowden expose that the endeavor was probably worth it for them . Seems the NSA was able to supervise all calls and emails moving through a foreign telecom ship’s company ’s web merely by having access to a sysadmin ’s PC . To procure access , NSA workers grab the admin ’s IP address , then hack their Facebook or webmail history . From there , they could utilise surveillance malware to pull in full memory access to the ironware .
The NSA reportactually details a dreaming , for want of a better word , where the Agency had access to a master listing of sysadmins that span the globe . That would , the documents explain , have allowed the NSA to easily set up digital attack when terrorists or foreign government used a net overseen by one of the admins . There are even step - by - footprint methods for attacking the sysadmin ’s computer using internal NSA tool when that fall out .
This was all plainly targeted abroad , but the message is clear : the NSA was point system administrators who had done nothing unseasonable in order that they could be used as pawn in the future . Thanks , NSA . [ The Interceptvia
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