Security News

When Harry met celly: NSA hoarder thrown in the clink for 9 years – after taking classified work home for decades
2019-07-19 20:55

Contractor Martin sentenced for squirreling away 50TB of hush-hush files, exploits An ex-NSA contractor who admitted stashing some 50TB of secret US government documents and exploit code at his...

Ex-NSA Contractor to Be Sentenced in Stolen Documents Case
2019-07-19 15:01

A former National Security Agency contractor awaits sentencing in Baltimore’s federal court for storing two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home. read more

Mystery of NSA Leak Lingers as Stolen Document Case Winds Up
2019-07-08 04:41

Federal agents descended on the suburban Maryland house with the flash and bang of a stun grenade, blocked off the street and spent hours questioning the homeowner about a theft of government...

Decoding America's spies: What does the NSA's cryptic memo really mean? Citizens illegally spied on again
2019-06-26 21:22

Too much data slurped in October, months after snoops vowed not to do that Analysis The NSA illegally gathered a trove of Americans' phone and text message records just four months after it...

NSA Urges Windows Users to Patch 'BlueKeep' Vulnerability
2019-06-05 12:54

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Tuesday urged Windows users and administrators to immediately address the vulnerability tracked as BlueKeep and CVE-2019-0708. read more

NSA Hawaii
2019-05-24 19:14

Recently I've heard Edward Snowden talk about his working at the NSA in Hawaii as being "under a pineapple field." CBS News recently ran a segment on that NSA listening post on Oahu. Not a whole...

Visiting the NSA
2019-05-22 19:11

Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command's birthday, but that's not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out of the Berkman Klein Center and...

Another NSA Leaker Identified and Charged
2019-05-09 20:17

In 2015, the Intercept started publishing "The Drone Papers," based on classified documents leaked by an unknown whistleblower. Today, someone who worked at the NSA, and then at the National...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools
2019-05-08 16:30

In 2016, a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released a trove of 2013 NSA hacking tools and related documents. Most people believe it is a front for the Russian government. Since,...

Chinese Spies Stole NSA Cyberweapons Long Before Shadow Brokers Leak
2019-05-07 17:52

Forensic analysis shows a Chinese APT using Equation Group hacking tools at least a year before Shadow Brokers dumped its cache in April 2017.