Security News

Prosecutors say contractor stole 50 terabytes of NSA data (ZDNet)
2016-10-20 18:51

quot;Shadow Brokersquot; Wants 10,000 Bitcoins for NSA Exploits (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-17 15:36

ShadowBrokers put US$6m price tag on new hoard of NSA hacks (The Register)
2016-10-17 11:06

NSA could put undetectable trapdoors in millions of crypto keys (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-11 12:08

Former NSA Contractor Arrested (October 5, 2016) (SANS Newsbites)
2016-10-07 18:52

NSA Contractor Arrested for Stealing Classified Information (Schneier on Security)
2016-10-07 11:07

The NSA has another contractor who stole classified documents. It's a weird story: "But more than a month later, the authorities cannot say with certainty whether Mr. Martin leaked the...

Former NSA hacker demos how Mac malware can spy on your webcam (Yahoo Security)
2016-10-06 22:52

Mac Malware Can Easily Spy On Your Skype Calls, Warns Ex-NSA Hacker (Forbes)
2016-10-06 19:07

Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA (Schneier on Security)
2016-10-06 18:58

News here and here. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don't believe those carefully worded statements about what they have and haven't done. We...

EFF: NSA’s Support of Encryption ‘Disingenuous’ (Threatpost)
2016-10-06 17:49

Cindy Cohn, the EFF's Executive Director, called the NSA's support of strong encryption disingenuous during a cybersecurity conference panel Wednesday.