Security News

NSA foreign spying, biotech snooping, Hamas hackers bombed, airline cams, and much more from infosec land
2019-05-07 06:20

Quick-fire summary of the past few days of news Roundup Welcome back, Brits, from your three-day Bank Holiday week. Allow us to catch you up on recent infosec comings and goings.…

Cyptojacking Attacks Target Enterprises With NSA-Linked Exploits
2019-04-26 14:14

A new cyptojacking campaign targeting enterprises in Asia is leveraging the National Security Agency-linked DoublePulsar backdoor and the EternalBlue exploit for network spreading, Symantec...

NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance
2019-04-26 10:47

The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.

NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more
2019-04-26 00:31

An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now? The NSA's mass-logging of people's phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced...

ExtraPulsar backdoor based on leaked NSA code – what you need to know
2019-04-25 14:58

A US security researcher has come up with an open-source Windows backdoor loosely based on NSA attack code that leaked back in 2017.

Ghidra: NSA's Reverse-Engineering Tool
2019-04-08 14:50

Last month, the NSA released Ghidra, a software reverse-engineering tool. Early reactions are uniformly positive. Three news articles....

NSA Releases Reverse Engineering Tool’s Source Code
2019-04-08 14:15

The National Security Agency (NSA) has made the source code for its "Ghidra" reverse engineering tool available for everyone.  read more

NSA Releases GHIDRA Source Code — Free Reverse Engineering Tool
2019-04-04 18:33

Update (4/4/2019) — Great news. NSA today finally released the complete source code for GHIDRA version 9.0.2 which is now available on its Github repository. GHIDRA is agency's home-grown...

NSA-Inspired Vulnerability Found in Huawei Laptops
2019-03-29 11:11

This is an interesting story of a serious vulnerability in a Huawei driver that Microsoft found. The vulnerability is similar in style to the NSA's DOUBLEPULSAR that was leaked by the Shadow...

Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to 20-Year-Long Theft of Classified Data
2019-03-29 07:18

A former National Security Agency contractor—who stole an enormous amount of sensitive information from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades—today changed his...