Security News

NSA won’t collect phone location data, promises US government
2019-11-18 11:38

US intelligence agencies won’t harvest US residents’ geolocation data in future investigations, revealed the US government this month.

NSA to Congress: Our spy programs don’t work, aren’t used, or have gone wrong – now can you permanently reauthorize them?
2019-11-06 21:26

Senators: Um, no. The NSA was unable to give a single example of how one of its most controversial spying programs has been useful in the fight against terrorism in a Congressional hearing on...

NSA Is Latest Intelligence Agency to Sound VPN Patch Alarm
2019-10-09 12:33

Not Just Patch or Perish, But Also Pay Attention, Security Experts WarnThe U.S. National Security Agency is the latest intelligence agency to warn that unpatched flaws in three vendors' VPN...

NSA: Multiple State-Sponsored APTs Exploiting Enterprise VPN Flaws
2019-10-09 12:07

After the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert, the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States has also warned organizations that multiple state-sponsored threat...

Code Execution Vulnerability Impacts NSA Reverse Engineering Tool
2019-10-08 13:45

Versions through 9.0.4 of the Ghidra software reverse engineering (SRE) framework are impacted by a code-execution vulnerability, the National Security Agency (NSA) has revealed. read more

NSA on the Future of National Cybersecurity
2019-10-01 11:54

Glenn Gerstell, the General Counsel of the NSA, wrote a long and interesting op-ed for the New York Times where he outlined a long list of cyber risks facing the US. There are four key...

New Bug Found in NSA’s Ghidra Tool
2019-09-30 17:02

Flaw in National Security Agency's Ghidra reverse-engineering tools allows hackers to execute code in vulnerable systems.

PacStar launches NSA CSfC registered, integrated, small form factor, tactical wireless gateway
2019-09-20 02:30

PacStar, a leading developer and supplier of advanced communications solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), announced an NSA CSfC registered, integrated, commercial off the shelf...

China’s APT3 Pilfers Cyberweapons from the NSA
2019-09-06 19:18

Large portions of APT3's remote code-execution package were likely reverse-engineered from prior attack artifacts.

NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down
2019-08-16 20:09

You never know, we might figure out how not to screw up in future Analysis In the clearest possible sign that the US intelligence services live within their own political bubble, the director of...