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Internet subscribers are being tricked into using the so-called ‘spy application’ that allegedly allows them to read other people’s SMS messages online. Such a utility in fact is nothing else but a new version of the infamous Waledac botnet client, reports the Register.

The quasi-spying software comes to the users mailboxes under various filenames such as sms.exe, freetrial.exe, and smstrap.exe.

On Wednesday the New York Times reported that the wiretapping practiced by the National Security Agency in recent months surpassed the limits set by the U.S. Congress last year. The paper said that the NSA had engaged in "'over-collection' of domestic communications of Americans."

Besides, the paper also said that the Justice Department acknowledged in a statement on Wednesday that there had been problems with NSA surveillance operations and said they were resolved.

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