The U.S. Secret
Service conducted 231 cyber attacks in 2011, the newspaper "The Washington
Post" in its online edition. The newspaper based the revelation in a
project budget that is part of the secret documents that are held by the former
coach of the National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden.
According to the Washington Post, the new document provides
new evidence revealed that the administration of President Barack Obama is
increasingly turning to attacks in cyberspace. According to the document,
computer specialists from the United States entered foreign networks for them
secretly under their control in the framework of a project called
"Genie" (Genius).
The project aims to place until later this year special
software to record and transmit data on at least 85,000 computers worldwide
selected. According to the document cited by the U.S. newspaper in 2008 and
thus were attacked 21,252 computers. Furthermore, in large computer networks a
single infected computer is able to open up access to hundreds of thousands of
devices.
Of the 231 "offensive operations" conducted in
2011, nearly three-quarters were directed against objects of the highest
priority in countries like Iran, Russia, China and North Korea, according to
former U.S. officials.
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