April 25, 2019

ExtraPulsar backdoor based on leaked NSA code – what you need to know

A US security researcher has come up with an open-source Windows backdoor loosely based on NSA attack code that leaked back in 2017.

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October 03, 2018

NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months

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

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February 19, 2018

US and UK condemn Russia for NotPetya worm attack

When it comes to pointing the finger for last year’s historically-disruptive NotPetya cyberattack, nobody could accuse the US and UK of dodging the issue.

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February 13, 2018

Did the NSA really use Twitter to send coded messages to a Russian?

A sequence of 12 NSA tweets are claimed to be a coded back-channel used to communicate with a Russian negotiating to sell cyberweapons.

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November 20, 2017

US intelligence can’t break vulnerability hoarding habit

Vulnerabilities: keep them secret as a weapon against the bad guys or tell the world so we can all get patched?

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November 15, 2017

Shadow Brokers cause ongoing headache for NSA

It's not been a great few years for the NSA when it comes to breaches...

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August 01, 2017

Should governments keep vulnerabilities secret?

The 'secret vulnerability stash' debate rages on.

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June 21, 2017

News in brief: WannaCry knocks out Honda plant; Skype hit by global outage; NSA shares tools on GitHub

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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June 21, 2017

NSA failed to implement security measures, says damning report

The NSA's post-Snowden 'Secure the Net' initiative has done nothing of the sort, says the Department of Defense's highly critical review

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