US to increase the efficiency of electronic surveillance against Russia
25 March 2014, 14:57 -- US intelligence agencies are trying to achieve the expansion of the zone, which could be monitored by means of American satellites on the territory of Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic States, as well as improve the efficiency of interception of phone calls and other conversations in these countries.
According to the sources in Obama's administration, the US officials hope that the new equipment and the staff increase of the analysts will help to spy more efficiently on the Russian troops. It will help the US to understand the intentions of the Russian authorities before they take effect.
This decision was made due to the fact that during the Ukrainian crisis the US intelligence acted inefficiently, especially considering the tapping of the phone calls of Russian politicians and military.
As the representative of the US administration said, the Russian troops, which are located near the Russian border with Ukraine, interest the US intelligence agencies most of all at present time.
China demands US explanation on NSA cyber-spying reports
Beijing demanded an explanation from Washington Monday over reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had spied on Chinese ministries, banks and other companies.
'These activities must stop,' said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei.
Reports which appeared in German magazine Der Spiegel over the weekend said the NSA had infiltrated the networks of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, to gather information about targets including former Chinese president Hu Jintao.
Beijing did not say whether it had found proof of NSA spying on Chinese networks.
US NSA spied on Chinese leaders, banks, businesses
The US National Security Agency spied on the leaders of China as well as Chinese banks and the telecommunications giant Huawei, a German news magazine reported Saturday in its online edition.
Former Chinese president Hu Jintao was among those targeted, according to the media, which said its source for the information was documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The foreign and trade ministries in Beijing also were spied on by the NSA, according to Spiegel.
The documents show that the NSA put an especially large amount effort into an operation that started in 2009 targeting Huawei, the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications networking equipment and a major competitor to the US company Cisco.
A special unit of the NSA managed to infiltrate about 100 locations on Huawei's network and copy internal documents, the report said. This included a list of more than 1,400 customers and documents outlining training procedures for engineers who use Huawei products. This gave the NSA access not only to an email archive, but also to individul products' secret source code - the most closely guarded intellectual property computer companies hold.
One of the internal documents quoted in the report indicated that NSA had so much data it didn't know what to do with all of it.
The NSA said the reason for its probing of Huawei was many of its targets communicate over Huawei products and this meant it had to keep up with the latest technology.
In addition, there has been concern that China could use widely distributed networking infrastructure products made by Huawei for espionage purposes. Whether the NSA found proof of that hypothesis was unclear.
The NSA mission is part of a digital offensive the United States has mounted against China, the magazine said.
The two countries increasingly have been wrangling over dominance of the Internet. In the past the US repeatedly branded China as the source of hacker attacks and espionage activity.
Voice of Russia, TASS, dpa
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