Security News

Warning: Quickly Patch A New Critical Windows 10 Flaw Discovered by the NSA
2020-01-14 10:48

What's so special about the latest Patch Tuesday is that one of the updates fixes a serious flaw in the core cryptographic component of widely used Windows 10, Server 2016 and 2019 editions that was discovered and reported to the company by the National Security Agency of the United States. What's more interesting is that this is the first security flaw in Windows OS that the NSA reported responsibly to Microsoft, unlike the Eternalblue SMB flaw that the agency kept secret for at least five years and then was leaked to the public by a mysterious group, which caused WannaCry menace in 2017.

FYI: FBI raiding NSA's global wiretap database to probe US citizens probably illegal, unconstitutional, court says
2019-12-19 01:15

A data silo we didn't know existed until a certain IT admin went rogue Analysis The FBI is likely breaking the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches, when it investigates...

The NSA Warns of TLS Inspection
2019-11-22 12:16

The NSA has released a security advisory warning of the dangers of TLS inspection: Transport Layer Security Inspection (TLSI), also known as TLS break and inspect, is a security process that...

NSA Issues Advisory on Mitigation of Risks Associated With TLSI
2019-11-20 15:48

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has published an advisory to provide information on possible mitigations for risks associated with Transport Layer Security Inspection (TLSI). read more

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...