NSA Helped Create Stuxnet Cyber-Weapon, Snowden Claims

The National Security Agency collaborated with the Israeli government to create the program used in a cyber-attack that disrupted Iran's uranium processing capability and delayed its nuclear ambitions, former intelligence consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden said in an interview published in the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Allegedly conducted prior to Snowden's release of classified intelligence documents, the interview describes the broad surveillance conducted by the NSA and other nations' intelligence agencies. In addition to other assertions, Snowden confirmed that the NSA shares surveillance and cooperates with other nations, including Israel.

"Yes, [they cooperate] all the time. The NSA has a massive body responsible for this: FAD, the Foreign Affairs Directorate," Snowden said in the interview. When asked if the NSA helped create Stuxnet, he added: "[The] NSA and Israel co-wrote it." - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/security/nsa-helped-create-stuxnet-cyber-weapon-sn…