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    The Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), structured as S32, is a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the National Security Agency (NSA)...
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    Operations (SSO) division. Hacking operations, which fall under the responsibility of the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division. "Echelon" was created...
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  • Equation Group threat actor, who have been tied to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit. Several news sources noted that the group's name was likely...
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    Source Operations of the NSA has been sharing information containing "logins, cookies, and GooglePREFID" with the Tailored Access Operations division...
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  • Equation Group (category National Security Agency operations)
    highly sophisticated threat actor suspected of being tied to the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit of the United States National Security Agency (NSA)...
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    spying software were published. The items are available to the Tailored Access Operations unit and are mostly targeted at products from US companies such...
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    virtually unlimited access to NSA data. Snowden was offered a position on the NSA's elite team of hackers, Tailored Access Operations, but turned it down...
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    measures were an arm of the National Security Agency known as the Tailored Access Operations group which, among other things, is specialized in surreptitiously...
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    FAIRVIEW Main Core ThinThread Genoa Since 1990 RAMPART-A Since 1998 Tailored Access Operations Since 2001 OAKSTAR STORMBREW Trailblazer Turbulence Genoa II Total...
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    part of an American mass surveillance program. The facility commenced operations in 2003 and its purpose was publicly revealed by AT&T technician Mark...
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  • FAIRVIEW BLARNEY STORMBREW OAKSTAR Special Collection Service Tailored Access Operations Greenwald, Glenn; MacAskill, Ewen; Poitras, Laura; Ackerman, Spencer;...
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  • information collected under the President's Surveillance Program Tailored Access Operations, NSA's hacking program Terrorist Surveillance Program, an NSA...
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    the National Security Agency. She also worked for NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations. From 2009 to 2010, Easterly served on the United States Cyber...
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    This conclusion was supported by the exposure of Room 641A in AT&T's operations center in San Francisco in 2006. In June 2013, The Washington Post and...
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    XKeyscore (category GCHQ operations)
    trigger other systems, which perform "active" attacks through Tailored Access Operations which are "tipping", for example, the QUANTUM family of programs...
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  • companies refused to install backdoors into the software, tasking the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) with discovering and purchasing zero-day exploits. In 2007...
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  • Stuxnet (redirect from Operation Myrtus)
    Zeus Operation High Roller Operation Merlin Pin control attack Programmable logic controller Regin (malware) Stars virus Tailored Access Operations Vulnerability...
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    name): The open secret code name for four surveillance programs. Tailored Access Operations: Intelligence-gathering unit of the NSA that is capable of harvesting...
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    interaction for use in coalition operations. Live exercises were conducted involving small unit logistics operations with the United States Marines to...
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    variety of roles. From 2013 to 2017, he was head of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit. In that role...
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  • chain NetSpectre Operation Aurora Operation Shady RAT Proactive cyber defence Spear-phishing Spyware Stuxnet Tailored Access Operations Unit 180 Unit 8200...
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    Bullrun (decryption program) (category National Security Agency operations)
    Kingdom Mass surveillance in the United States MUSCULAR PRISM Tailored Access Operations Transport Layer Security Voice over IP Ball, James; Borger, Julian;...
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    FAIRVIEW Main Core ThinThread Genoa Since 1990 RAMPART-A Since 1998 Tailored Access Operations Since 2001 OAKSTAR STORMBREW Trailblazer Turbulence Genoa II Total...
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  • (video game), a post-industrial video game for the Famicom TAO, Tailored Access Operations, a cyber espionage unit within the United States National Security...
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    Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide details how the agency's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit and other NSA employees intercept servers, routers...
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    MUSCULAR (category GCHQ operations)
    access point known as DS-200B, which is outside the United States, and it relies on an unnamed telecommunications operator to provide secret access for...
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    FAIRVIEW Main Core ThinThread Genoa Since 1990 RAMPART-A Since 1998 Tailored Access Operations Since 2001 OAKSTAR STORMBREW Trailblazer Turbulence Genoa II Total...
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    drake-edward-snowdens-case/ Archived 2013-07-10 at the Wayback Machine accessed 7-7-13 "Blowing the Whistle: Former US Official Reveals Risks Faced by...
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    companies, both inside and outside the US. Upstream collection programs allow access to very high volumes of data. According to one anonymous official speaking...
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    searches in the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (April 23, 1976), Supplementary...
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