Security News

Chinese Cyber Threat: NSA Confirms Attacks Have Escalated
2018-11-12 16:18

'Defending Forward' Is New Military Mantra for Defending Government NetworksWith cyber espionage attacks from China escalating over the past year, the NSA's Rob Joyce says the U.S. government is...

Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more
2018-10-20 09:01

Plus, hackers find a safe haven in West Haven Roundup After we encountered a libssh security blunder, a leaky Tea Party, and a dodgy Redmond sports marketer, another week is in the book.…

Spotted: Miscreants use pilfered NSA hacking tools to pwn boxes in nuke, aerospace worlds
2018-10-19 20:39

High-value servers targeted by cyber-weapons dumped online by Shadow Brokers Miscreants are using a trio of NSA hacking tools, leaked last year by the Shadow Brokers, to infect and spy on computer...

NSA-Linked 'DarkPulsar' Exploit Tool Detailed
2018-10-19 18:39

Kaspersky Lab security researchers have analyzed another exploit tool that was supposedly stolen from the National Security Agency-linked Equation Group. read more

NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months
2018-10-03 12:34

Nghia Hoang Pho may not have had malicious intent, but removal of the materials forced the NSA to abandon years of signals collection work.

ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS Mojave 10.14 Zero-Day Vulnerability
2018-09-27 07:33

The same day Apple released its latest macOS Mojave operating system, a security researcher demonstrated a potential way to bypass new privacy implementations in macOS using just a few lines of...

Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home
2018-09-26 09:03

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015,...

NSA dev thrown in the clink for 66 months after letting Kaspersky, Russia slurp US exploits
2018-09-26 00:07

Pho gets five years and change after taking work home The now-former NSA employee at the heart of the Kaspersky Lab exploit slurping scandal has been thrown behind bars for five and a half years.…

Ex-NSA Hacker Sentenced to Jail Over Kaspersky Leak
2018-09-25 23:26

A former National Security Agency hacker whose leak of extremely top secret online spying materials led to the US government ban on Kaspersky software was sentenced to 66 months in prison Tuesday....

NSA Leak Fuels Rise in Hacking for Crypto Mining: Report
2018-09-19 15:40

Illicit cryptocurrency mining has been surging over the past year, in part due to a leaked software tool from the US National Security Agency, researchers said Wednesday. read more