Security News

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

NSA Attacks Against Virtual Private Networks
2018-09-17 11:12

A 2006 document from the Snowden archives outlines successful NSA operations against "a number of "high potential" virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the...

Nope, the NSA isn't sitting in front of a supercomputer hooked up to a terrorist’s hard drive
2018-09-06 08:13

They wish. Backdooring, encryption, and governments Analysis Not since the days of the US Clipper chip in the early 1990s, have backdoors put there by government decree to bypass encryption been...

NSA leaker Reality Winner gets 63 months in jail
2018-08-28 11:01

Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release.

NSA Leaker 'Reality Winner' Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison
2018-08-24 08:33

A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five...