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

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...

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

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...

Interesting analysis: "Examining the Anomalies, Explaining the Value: Should the USA FREEDOM Act's Metadata Program be Extended?" by Susan Landau and Asaf Lubin. Abstract: The telephony metadata...

Now that's what we call a joint task force: Uncle Sam chills out, relaxes recruitment rules on drugs Black Hat America's crime-fighters, desperate to recruit white-hat hackers to collar spies and...

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who fled to Russia after leaking information about the US government's mass surveillance program, is publishing a memoir. The book,...

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is creating a new Cybersecurity Directorate to reinvigorate the cybersecurity element of its work.  read more

Pleaded Guilty to Stealing Files From NSA, CIA, US Cyber CommandFormer government contractor Harold Thomas Martin III has been sentenced to serve nine years in federal prison after he pleaded...

A former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Harold Martin, 54, apologized...