Report:NSA masqueraded as Google to spy on web users

Recent leaks have revealed that the NSA used 'man in the middle' (MITM) hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users. This revelation adds to the growing list of ways that the NSA is believed to snoop on ostensibly private online conversations.

Such an attack involves using a fake security certificate to pose as a legitimate Web service, bypass browser security settings, and then intercept data that an unsuspecting person is sending to that service.

Google denied the reports:

"As for recent reports that the US government has found ways to circumvent our security systems, we have no evidence of any such thing ever occurring. We provide our user data to governments only in accordance with the law," said Google spokesperson Jay Nancarrow to news site Mother Jones.

The use of MITM attacks by the NSA was discovered by journalist Glenn Greenwald among the thousands of documents given to him by Edward Snowden in June. The story aired this past weekend on the Brazilian news station TV Globo, and was co-written by local reporter Sonia Bridi. It detailed NSA's use of MITM attacks against Brazil's state- owned oil company, Petrobras, but also mentioned that they'd been used to intercept information from Google servers.

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