PBS has the article How the NSA Can Get Onto Your Computer.  Read the original article to get all the links to other information.

Many of the NSA’s programs revealed in the Snowden leaks describe the agency’s ability to target specific pieces of software.

But as The New York Times and others reported earlier this year, there is a suite of programs, codenamed QUANTUM, which allows the NSA access to a much wider variety of computers.

We had security expert Ashkan Soltani break it down.

I have been talking to a group of people I work with who are wary of putting information into the cloud (on the internet) for fear of security breaches. I tried to make the point that our web site probably has more security protection than the average person’s home computer. The data may actually be safer on our web site than it is on the home computers from which the data originates.

I am not saying data is safer on a public cloud computer automatically. The web site to which I am obliquely referring has some software that I have specifically put in place to try to protect it. I know I am not enough of a security expert to kid myself that I have made it completely safe.