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Vulnerability in NSA's Reverse Engineering Tool Allows Remote Code Execution
2019-03-20 19:23

A vulnerability in Ghidra, the generic disassembler and decompiler released by the National Security Agency (NSA) in early March, could be exploited to execute code remotely, researchers say.  read more

Researcher Says NSA’s Ghidra Tool Can Be Used for RCE
2019-03-19 15:26

Researchers have released a proof-of-concept showing how a XXE vulnerability can be exploited to attack Ghidra project users.

NSA Pitches Free Reverse-Engineering Tool Called Ghidra
2019-03-19 14:18

'For the Record, There's No Backdoor,' NSA's Rob Joyce Tells RSA ConferenceHere's free software built by the National Security Agency called Ghidra that reverse-engineers binary application files...

NSA might shut down phone snooping program, whatever that means
2019-03-07 16:44

We've heard this tale before. This time, it was mentioned by a congressional aide. Also, the NSA released Ghidra, a free reverse-engineering tool.

NSA Makes Reverse Engineering Tool Freely Available
2019-03-06 12:12

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) this week released its in-house reverse engineering tool Ghidra to the public, for free. read more

NSA unveils Ghidra reverse engineering tool at RSA Conference 2019
2019-03-06 12:00

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released Ghidra, a free and cross-platform software reverse engineering tool suite used internally by the intelligence agency. They are also planning on...

NSA Releases GHIDRA 9.0 — Free, Powerful Reverse Engineering Tool
2019-03-06 08:48

The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) today finally released GHIDRA version 9.0 for free, the agency’s home-grown classified software reverse engineering tool that agency experts have...

Did you know?! Ghidra, the NSA's open-sourced decompiler toolkit, is ancient Norse for 'No backdoors, we swear!'
2019-03-06 03:48

Reverse-engineering suite now available to download... and maybe run in a VM, eh? RSA The NSA has released its home-grown open-source reverse-engineering suite Ghidra that folks can use to poke...

NSA may kill off mass phone spying program Snowden exposed, says Congressional staffer
2019-03-05 23:25

But really it's just the start of the latest surveillance chess game Special report The NSA may kill off a controversial mass surveillance program of Americans that was exposed by Edward Snowden,...

Facebooker swatted, Kaspersky snares an NSA thief, NASA server exposed, and more
2019-01-12 10:30

Plus, Vita boot ROM caper, TCL caught slinging Android malware, etc Roundup This week we saw a Huawei official cuffed (again), telcos caught selling tracking data (again) and Microsoft patching...