Security News

Snowden Documents Show NSA Leak is Real: Report (SecurityWeek)
2016-08-19 16:21

Shadow Brokers Leak Just Revealed How The NSA Broke American-Made Encryption (Forbes)
2016-08-19 14:21

ShadowBrokers’ Leak Has ‘Strong Connection’ to Equation Group (Threatpost)
2016-08-17 11:30

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said there is a strong connection between the ShadowBrokers cache of exploits and those belonging to the Equation Group.

Hacking tool leak came from omnipotent NSA-tied group (ArsTechnica)
2016-08-16 21:51

Snowden speculates leak of NSA spying tools is tied to Russian DNC hack (ArsTechnica)
2016-08-16 20:21

Major NSA/Equation Group Leak (Schneier on Security)
2016-08-16 15:43

The NSA was badly hacked in 2013, and we're just now learning about it. A group of hackers called "The Shadow Brokers" claim to have hacked the NSA, and they're posting data to prove it. The data...

Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Key to Windows Backdoor (Schneier on Security)
2016-08-15 11:27

In a cautionary tale to those who favor government-mandated backdoors to security systems, Microsoft accidentally leaked the key protecting its UEFI Secure boot feature. As we all know, the...

Microsoft Secure Boot Leak Demonstrates Risks of Encryption Backdoors (August 10 and 11, 2016) (SANS Newsbites)
2016-08-12 19:20

Microsoft Mistakenly Leaks Secure Boot Key (Threatpost)
2016-08-11 15:31

Microsoft inadvertently published a Secure Boot "golden key" policy that allows for self-signed or unsigned binaries to be loaded on Windows devices.

Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open (ArsTechnica)
2016-08-11 13:20