Security News

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...

Winner, Winner, prison dinner: Five years in the clink for NSA leaker
2018-08-23 19:59

Longest-ever sentence for Russia hack whistleblower as defenders claim public service A former NSA translator who leaked a classified report into attempted Russian hacking of US voting systems has...

Former NSA top hacker names the filthy four of nation-state hacking
2018-08-13 09:11

Carefully omits to mention the Land of the Free DEF CON Rob Joyce, the former head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team, has spilled the beans on which nations are getting up to...

Battle lines drawn over US mass surveillance as senators probe NSA's bonfire of phone records
2018-08-06 22:34

Ding! Ding! Round three in blanket spying bout Analysis A fight has begun over another of the US government's mass surveillance systems – with two Senators raising questions about an unusual data...

NSA hasn’t closed security windows Snowden climbed through
2018-07-31 12:56

One of three problems found in an audit: two-person access controls haven't been properly implemented at data centers and equipment rooms.

GandCrab Ransomware Spreads Via NSA Exploit
2018-07-10 13:30

GandCrab, a ransomware family that has received numerous updates in recent months, is now attempting to infect Windows XP machines using the read more

The NSA's Domestic Surveillance Centers
2018-07-06 14:16

The Intercept has a long story about the NSA's domestic interception points. Includes some new Snowden documents....