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The Internet of Business
April 26, 2018
NEWSBYTE The US National Security Agency (NSA) has had two of its new encryption algorithms for the Internet of Things (IoT) rejected by an international standards body, because of suspicions that they contained a backdoor that would allow US spies to break into them. The International OrganisationÃâà...
The Keene Sentinel
April 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — Army Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday to be the next director of the National Security Agency and the leader of U.S. Cyber Command, putting him in charge of the nation's largest spy agency and the military's cyber warfare organization. Nakasone, 54, willÃâà...
Huntington Herald Dispatch
April 25, 2018
For the second year in a row, Marshall was chosen by the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation to host the camp, which is free and open to high school students from throughout West Virginia and the region who are interested in digital forensics, information security and careers inÃâà...
The Register
April 25, 2018
Two new encryption algorithms developed by the NSA have been rejected by an international standards body amid accusations of threatening behavior. The "Simon" and "Speck" cryptographic tools were designed for secure data to and from the next generation of internet-of-things gizmos and sensors, andÃâà...
Boing Boing
April 24, 2018
For three years, International Standards Organization has been wrangling over which cryptographic algorithms will be incorporated into a standard for interoperability in "Internet of Things" gadgets; at issue has been the NSA's insistence that "Simon" and "Speck" would be the standard block cipherÃâà...
Federal Times
April 19, 2018
Before Terry Dunlap or Refirm labs was doing offensive cyber ops at the NSA, he led a gang of hackers who just wanted free long distance. Comments. Recommended for you. Trump budget will cost federal employees in pay and benefits Ãâ÷ Former Minnesota FBI agent pleads guilty to leaking to mediaÃâà...
CNN
April 9, 2018
Natalie Laing, the deputy director of operations at the National Security Agency, added that the Trump administration should "absolutely" be considering a range of options, while working with the intelligence community, to respond to Russia's election meddling attempts. The US has not yet hit back againstÃâà...
TechTarget
April 3, 2018
The National Security Agency works in close conjunction with the Central Security Service, which was established by presidential executive order in 1972 to promote full partnership between the NSA and the cryptologic elements of the armed forces. The director of the NSA/CSS, in accordance with a Department of DefenseÃâà...
CyberScoop
April 3, 2018
A 26-year old former NSA contractor accused of leaking classified documents is now looking to subpoena some of the largest cybersecurity firms in the industry as part of her legal defense against the government. Reality Winner was arrested in June 2017 for allegedly removing a top-secret report onÃâà...
Federal Times
April 3, 2018
Reality Winner, the former National Security Agency contractor alleged of leaking classified information to online publication the Intercept, recently submitted a request to subpoena several U.S. government intelligence agencies, private-sector organizations and state governments. Winner is standing trialÃâà...
The Australian Financial Review
April 3, 2018
Western nations should brace for more cyber security attacks on critical infrastructure from "second tier" nation states, as warfare from developing nations increasingly shifts online, according to a US cyber security expert who spent more than 30 years with the National Security Agency. Phil Quade, who hasÃâà...
Politico (blog)
April 2, 2018
National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner, who is accused of leaking a top-secret report on Russian hacking activity connected to the 2016 election, is seeking to pull 21 states and an array of leading cybersecurity firms into her criminal case by subpoenaing them as part of her trial. Lawyers forÃâà...
Duke Chronicle
April 2, 2018
“And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.” Thus spoke George OrwellÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 2, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The next head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command will be taking charge in the face of what intelligence officials call the ... Beyond Russia, the NSA and CyberCom keep close watch on Iran and North Korea, from which numerous cyberattacks have originated.
CHANNELS TELEVISION
April 2, 2018
He said during the interview that he has never been to the office of the NSA and has no relationship with him. “I did not collect any money from the National Security Adviser's office. I have never been to the former National Security Adviser's office. “I had no relationship with the former National SecurityÃâà...
ExecutiveGov
March 30, 2018
The U.S. Naval Academy won the National Security Agency's recent Cyber Exercise, or NCX, an event where cadets contended with a variety of cyber operations challenges. Cadets from all five U.S. military service academies took part in the three-day exercise that challenged participants in the areas ofÃâà...
Nextgov
March 21, 2018
AT&T was awarded one of the National Security Agency's most coveted classified tech contracts despite a bid that was $750 million higher than the other competitor's bid. According to redacted legal documents released March 20, the telecommunications giant bid $2.55 billion on a contract to “technicallyÃâà...
CoinDesk
March 20, 2018
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been reportedly monitoring the bitcoin blockchain with an eye on identifying users on the distributed network. According to a report by the Intercept on Tuesday, the media outlet has obtained classified documents from the U.S. whistleblower Edward SnowdenÃâà...
The Intercept
March 20, 2018
Classified documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the National Security Agency indeed worked urgently to target bitcoin users around the world — and wielded at least one mysterious source of information to “help track down senders and receivers of Bitcoins,” according to aÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 15, 2018
In his March 15, 2018, confirmation hearing for his nomination to lead the National Security Agency, Army Lt. Gen. Paul M. Nakasone told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that safeguarding the nation's secrets and capabilities is increasingly important in a world driven by technology. Air ForceÃâà...
TechTarget
March 8, 2018
Researchers discovered evidence of an NSA tracking program designed to watch nation-state hackers and gather information as attacks were in progress.
The Oakland Press
March 7, 2018
A search is on to find surviving relatives of a 1954 Royal Oak High School graduate killed in Vietnam before the National Security Agency honors him and ... and co-author Gary Blackburn to try to locate Townsend's survivors for the Memorial Wall ceremony May 29 at NSA headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md.
SC Magazine
March 7, 2018
A group of Hungarian researchers found that the National Security Agency (NSA) was able to scan for and track nation-state threat groups when NSA workers were conducting operations inside other country's systems. The research comes from the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security, alsoÃâà...
Politico
March 7, 2018
BALTIMORE — Prosecutors and a defense attorney squared off here Tuesday over a thorny legal question that a federal judge declared unprecedented: whether a National Security Agency contractor can be convicted under the Espionage Act for taking home highly classified documents he may not haveÃâà...
The Intercept
March 7, 2018
... National Security Agency uses to detect other nation-state hackers on the machines it infects. It turns out those scripts and tools are just as interesting as the exploits. They show that in 2013 — the year the NSA tools were believed to have been stolen by the Shadow Brokers — the agency was tracking atÃâà...
WIRED
March 7, 2018
EternalBlue is the name of both a software vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system and an exploit the National Security Agency developed to weaponize the bug. In April 2017, the exploit leaked to the public, part of the fifth release of alleged NSA tools by the still mysterious group known asÃâà...
The Hill
March 6, 2018
If confirmed, Nakasone will helm both the NSA and the Pentagon's growing cyber warfare unit, U.S. Cyber Command. Nakasone currently leads Army Cyber Command, a component of Cyber Command. Nakasone appeared before the committee for his confirmation hearing last week, during which heÃâà...
The Intercept
March 1, 2018
The story of how the National Security Agency harvested porn for use against prisoners in Iraq is just one of the revelations disclosed in the agency's internal newsletter SIDtoday during the second half of 2005. There's also the tale of how some intercepts would be rushed almost instantly to the president atÃâà...
The Intercept
March 1, 2018
Behind an abandoned military facility 40 miles northwest of Oslo, Norway built a surveillance base in close collaboration with the National Security Agency. Its bright, white satellite dishes, some of them 60 feet in diameter, stand out against the backdrop of pine-covered hills and red-roofed buildings thatÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
February 28, 2018
"It's like if your house is on fire, and the firemen are all there, and they agree that the flames are presently consuming your center hall colonial, but the fire chief keeps tweeting, 'Fake news. We don't know that that's a fire. Could be a very shiny flood. Point is, there is no proof of combustion. Witch hunt!
Stars and Stripes
February 28, 2018
AUGUSTA, Ga. — A judge is weighing whether to suppress the statement of a woman accused of leaking National Security Agency secrets because federal agents did not warn her that her words might be used against her and that she could wait for a lawyer. Reality Winner, 25, admitted in the recordedÃâà...
Vanguard
February 28, 2018
The National Security Adviser, (NSA) Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) accompanied by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar and the Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen. Nicholas Rogers and other senior military officers, on Tuesday joined the search team for theÃâà...
Signal Magazine
February 28, 2018
That's certainly fair, but we look at IoT as an opportunity in terms of the security goals we can accomplish,” says George Coker, chief, Information Assurance Research Group, National Security Agency (NSA). He describes a paradox of sorts in which the IoT can help the agency achieve its security goals butÃâà...
The Register
February 28, 2018
NSA boss Mike Rogers told a US congressional panel today that Russia's online mischief-making in America's elections is not going to stop – because Uncle Sam isn't hitting back. "I believe that President Putin has clearly come to the conclusion there's little price to pay here, and that therefore I canÃâà...
Voice of America
February 27, 2018
“I've never been given any specific direction to take additional steps outside my authority,” Admiral Mike Rogers, director of both the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, told lawmakers. “I have taken the steps within my authority, you know, trying to be a good, pro-active commander,”Ãâà...
MarketWatch
February 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — The head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers Tuesday that he hadn't been formally asked by President Donald Trump to take steps to disrupt Russian election hacking activity at its source. Adm. Mike Rogers was asked by Sen. Jack Reed (D., R.I.) during testimony before theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 16, 2018
They were soon jolted awake by the shouts of police officers from the National Security Agency, Brown said. Some banged on the vehicle's doors and windows, he said, while others pointed guns that resembled assault rifles at their heads as the SUV continued moving. At least one officer fired at the vehicleÃâà...
New York Times
February 14, 2018
FORT MEADE, Md. — Three men were in custody Wednesday after they tried to drive onto the National Security Agency's campus at Fort Meade, in Maryland. But officials said the episode did not appear to be linked to terrorism, and that there was no ongoing safety or security threat. The men tried to driveÃâà...
