The United States National Security Agency reportedly is using at least one type of Google cookie -- PREF, which stores a user's preferences -- to home in on the PCs of targets it wants to hack. NSA's Special Source Operations division, which works with private companies to slurp data from the Internet's backbone and from the companies' servers, apparently is sharing information containing logins, cookies and Google PREFID with Tailored Access Operations, the agency's cyberwarfare intelligence-gathering unit.NSA Hackers Help Themselves to Google's Cookies
The United States National Security Agency reportedly is using at least one type of Google cookie -- PREF, which stores a user's preferences -- to home in on the PCs of targets it wants to hack. NSA's Special Source Operations division, which works with private companies to slurp data from the Internet's backbone and from the companies' servers, apparently is sharing information containing logins, cookies and Google PREFID with Tailored Access Operations, the agency's cyberwarfare intelligence-gathering unit.
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