NSA

What is the NSA actually doing in China?

The breach was deft, even artful. It began, according to China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre (NCVERC), with a…

Amazon Appoints Ex Director of the NSA to its Board of Directors

Amazon has appointed controversial former NSA director General Keith Alexander to its board. A retired four-star general who ran the…

National Security Agency: Assume Your OT Control System Will Get Turned Against You

The US National Security Agency (NSA) this week warned that a "perfect storm" is brewing for businesses running Operational Technology…

Exim Vulnerability: GRU Widely Exploited Critical 2019 Bug, Warns NSA

The US's National Security Agency (NSA) says Russian military intelligence is widely abusing a critical 2019 vulnerability within the Exim…

NSA Web Shell Advisory and Mitigation Tools Published on GitHub

As web shell attacks continue to be a persistent threat the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals…

“A Skeleton Key”: NSA Warns Over Critical Microsoft Cryptography Bug

Updated 19:58, January 14, 2020, with NSA comment. Microsoft has pushed out an urgent patch for a vulnerability in a…

Tale of the Tape: The NSA’s Neal Ziring on the Slow Death of Punched Tape Crypto Keys

Neal Ziring, technical director of the NSA's Capabilities Directorate, is responsible for setting technical direction across the signals intelligence agency.…

EXCLUSIVE – Last Punched Tape Crypto Key Rolls off the NSA’s Machines

The US's National Security Agency (NSA) has ended production of punched paper tape cryptographic keys after over 50 years' use;…

EXCLUSIVE: GCHQ, NSA Still Using Punched Paper Tape to Produce Crypto Keys

It’s the secret government organisation you’ve probably never heard of: a team some 50-strong working at the heart of British…

You Can Now Download the NSA’s Own Reverse Engineering Tool for Free

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released the agency’s in-house reverse engineering tool Ghidra to a public audience under an…