Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
WASHINGTON — Documents from fugitive former government contractor Edward Snowden spell out new details of AT&T’s cooperation with National Security Agency spying and an NSA operation with teams of elite hackers in San Antonio breaking into computers around the world. NSA Texas hackers aimed at Mexico, Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela and unspecified targets in the Middle East, documents showed. An offensive targeting Mexican leaders — called “WhiteTamale” — proved especially productive. Documents from Snowden’s archive disclosed this month by the New York Times and ProPublica detailed AT&T’s involvement in NSA’s interception of email traffic at a time when AT&T made its headquarters in San Antonio. AT&T moved its corporate offices to Dallas in 2008. Among those documents, a slide presentation shows San Antonio among the hubs of fiber-optic circuitry used in data interception under an NSA program called Fairview. Together, the disclosures underscore San Antonio’s central role in intelligence gathering over the years. The Snowden documents related to hacking started trickling out 20 months ago. They confirm one of the missions of NSA Texas in San Antonio — a growing role in Tailored Access Operations, the program of gathering intelligence by penetrating computers of foreign targets. A slide presentation labeled top […]
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