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Declassified NSA Newsletters
2024-04-02 17:05

Applied Cryptography, for those who don't read the internet news, is a book written by Bruce Schneier last year. Schneier has gathered academic research, internet gossip, and everything he could find on cryptography into one 600-page jumble.

CISA, NSA share best practices for securing cloud services
2024-03-07 23:05

The NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released five joint cybersecurity bulletins containing on best practices for securing a cloud environment. Today, the NSA and CISA have issued five join documents on how to secure your cloud services using best practices.

NSA shares zero-trust guidance to limit adversaries on the network
2024-03-05 23:29

The National Security Agency is sharing new guidance to help organizations limit an adversary's movement on the internal network by adopting zero-trust framework principles.The NSA released today zero-trust guidance for the network and environment component, which comprises all hardware and software assets, non-person entities, and inter-communication protocols.

Documents about the NSA’s Banning of Furby Toys in the 1990s
2024-02-06 17:03

About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I've been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998.

NSA Buying Bulk Surveillance Data on Americans without a Warrant
2024-01-30 12:12

It finally admitted to buying bulk data on Americans from data brokers, in response to a query by Senator Weyden. This is almost certainly illegal, although the NSA maintains that it is legal until it's told otherwise.

NSA Admits Secretly Buying Your Internet Browsing Data without Warrants
2024-01-29 06:59

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to identify the websites and apps Americans use that would otherwise require a court...

Ex-GCHQ software dev jailed for stabbing NSA staffer
2023-11-03 19:02

Joshua Bowles, a former Government Communications Headquarters programmer, attacked the individual in March following at least a month of planning, police said. Bowles visited the leisure center four weeks prior to the attack after researching the victim extensively to plan out the attack.

New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden
2023-10-26 11:00

Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill. As far as he knows, a copy of the documents is still locked in the New York Times office.

Ex-NSA techie pleads guilty to selling state secrets to Russia
2023-10-24 16:45

Dalke, 31, admitted that he transmitted excerpts from three classified documents, and sent four in their entirety, to an FBI online covert employee, all of which contained national defense information determined [PDF] to be classified top secret. A former US Army soldier, Dalke was employed at the NSA as an information security systems designer for less than a month, and resigned after the NSA denied his request for extended leave to take care of a sick family member.

Ex-NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Data to Russia
2023-10-24 12:30

A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of attempting to transmit classified defense information to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke,...