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Top Articles:

  • Stolen NSA hacking tools were used in the wild 14 months before Shadow Brokers leak
  • Another NSA Leaker Identified and Charged
  • Three formers NSA employees fined for providing hacker-for-hire services to UAE firm
  • New Revelations from the Snowden Documents
  • NSA Buying Bulk Surveillance Data on Americans without a Warrant
  • Microsoft, CISA and NSA offer security tools and advice, but will you take it?
  • ExtraPulsar backdoor based on leaked NSA code – what you need to know

NSA Buying Bulk Surveillance Data on Americans without a Warrant

Published: 2024-01-30 12:12:30

Popularity: 6

Author: Bruce Schneier

Keywords:

  • Uncategorized
  • data collection
  • data privacy
  • metadata
  • NSA
  • privacy
  • surveillance
  • It finally admitted to buying bulk data on Americans from data brokers, in response to a query by Senator Weyden. This is almost certainly illegal, although the NSA maintains that it is legal until it’s told otherwise. Some news articles.

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    New Revelations from the Snowden Documents

    Published: 2023-09-21 11:03:43

    Popularity: 10

    Author: Bruce Schneier

    Keywords:

  • Uncategorized
  • academic papers
  • backdoors
  • cryptography
  • Edward Snowden
  • NSA
  • privacy
  • Schneier news
  • surveillance
  • Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits. Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years ago. At this point, those documents are more historical than anything else. And it’s unclear who has those archives anymore. According to Appelbaum, The Intercept destroyed their copy. I recently published an essay about my experiences ten years ago.

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    Three formers NSA employees fined for providing hacker-for-hire services to UAE firm

    Three former NSA employees entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that restricts their future activities and employment and requires the payment of a penalty. Three former NSA employees (Marc Baier, 49, Ryan Adams, 34, and Daniel Gericke, 40) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that restricts their future activities and employment. The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire […] The post Three formers NSA employees fined for providing hacker-for-hire services to UAE firm appeared first on Security Affairs.

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    Microsoft, CISA and NSA offer security tools and advice, but will you take it?

    Microsoft, CISA, and the NSA are individually offering tools and advice that aim to improve security for organizations. But will the targeted audience have the time and resources to accept that help? Categories: Opinion Tags: cisaEMemergency mitigation serviceEOLexchangeinsider risk mitigation self-assessment toolinsider threatmicrosoftNSAnsssupply chain attackvpn (Read more...) The post Microsoft, CISA and NSA offer security tools and advice, but will you take it? appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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    Another NSA Leaker Identified and Charged

    Published: 2019-05-09 20:17:22

    Popularity: 110

    Author: Bruce Schneier

    Keywords:

  • espionage
  • leaks
  • NSA
  • whistleblowers
  • LLM Says: ""Government gotcha""

    In 2015, the Intercept started publishing "The Drone Papers," based on classified documents leaked by an unknown whistleblower. Today, someone who worked at the NSA, and then at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, was charged with the crime. It is unclear how he was initially identified. It might have been this: "At the agency, prosecutors said, Mr. Hale printed 36 documents...

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    Stolen NSA hacking tools were used in the wild 14 months before Shadow Brokers leak

    Published: 2019-05-07 06:14:49

    Popularity: 1033

    Author: Dan Goodin

    Keywords:

  • Biz & IT
  • apt3
  • buckeye
  • exploits
  • National Security Agency
  • NSA
  • shadow brokers
  • vulnerabilities
  • Already criticized for not protecting its exploit arsenal, the NSA has a new lapse.

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

    Published: 2019-04-25 14:58:33

    Popularity: 0

    Author: Paul Ducklin

    Keywords:

  • Malware
  • Backdoor
  • DOUBLEPULSAR
  • ExtraPulsar
  • malware
  • NSA
  • Shadow Brokers
  • 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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