NSA

All roads in US cable biz GTT's Brit network seem to lead to Menwith Hill

You know, the US spy station with the golf balls

Networks13 Aug 2019 | 52

FBI, NSA to hackers: Let us be blunt. Weed need your help. We'll hire you even if you've smoked a little pot in the past

Black Hat Now that's what we call a joint task force: Uncle Sam chills out, relaxes recruitment rules on drugs

Security08 Aug 2019 | 69

When Harry met celly: NSA hoarder thrown in the clink for 9 years – after taking classified work home for decades

Contractor Martin sentenced for squirreling away 50TB of hush-hush files, exploits

Security19 Jul 2019 | 37

Years late to the SMB1-killing party, Samba finally dumps the unsafe file-sharing protocol version by default

Although you can still use it if you like the thrill of danger

Software09 Jul 2019 | 51

While we were raging about Putin's meddling and Kremlin hackers, Five Eyes were pwning Yandex, Russia's Google

... Are ... are we the baddies?

Security27 Jun 2019 | 23

Decoding America's spies: What does the NSA's cryptic memo really mean? Citizens illegally spied on again

Analysis Too much data slurped in October, months after snoops vowed not to do that

Security26 Jun 2019 | 17

NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more

An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now?

Security26 Apr 2019 | 48

Leaky Martin will be livin' la vida lockdown: Ex-NSA bod cops to taking home 'up to 50TB' of hush-hush dossiers

'Hoarder' faces up to nine years in the clink for harvesting Uncle Sam's top secrets

Security29 Mar 2019 | 20

Did you know?! Ghidra, the NSA's open-sourced decompiler toolkit, is ancient Norse for 'No backdoors, we swear!'

RSA Reverse-engineering suite now available to download... and maybe run in a VM, eh?

Security06 Mar 2019 | 43

NSA may kill off mass phone spying program Snowden exposed, says Congressional staffer

Special report But really it's just the start of the latest surveillance chess game

Security05 Mar 2019 | 17

GCHQ pushes for 'virtual crocodile clips' on chat apps – the ability to silently slip into private encrypted comms

Analysis Sliding into your DMs unnoticed, literally

Security29 Nov 2018 | 132

Guess who's back, back again? China's back, hacking your friends: Beijing targets American biz amid tech tariff tiff

Everything little thing Xi does is magic, everything Xi do just turns me intrusion alarms on

Security09 Nov 2018 | 16

Spotted: Miscreants use pilfered NSA hacking tools to pwn boxes in nuke, aerospace worlds

High-value servers targeted by cyber-weapons dumped online by Shadow Brokers

Security19 Oct 2018 | 13

NSA dev in the clink for 5.5 years after letting Kaspersky, allegedly Russia slurp US exploits

Bloke sent down after spilling Uncle Sam's cyber-weapons

Security26 Sep 2018 | 26

Winner, Winner, prison dinner: Five years in the clink for NSA leaker

Longest-ever sentence for Russia hack whistleblower as defenders claim public service

Security23 Aug 2018 | 60

Former NSA top hacker names the filthy four of nation-state hacking

DEF CON Carefully omits to mention the Land of the Free

Security13 Aug 2018 | 53

NSA's crummy crypto crop Suite B binned, and other network nuggets

NEC cavorts with 5G, Arita finds its Mojo, and much more

Networks03 Aug 2018 | 4

Sen. Ron Wyden: Adobe Flash is doomed, why is Uncle Sam still using it?

Techno-dem urges DHS, NSA and NIST to rid sites of buggy legacy media player content

Security26 Jul 2018 | 29

Engineers, coders – it's down to you to prevent AI being weaponised

Comment Grunts already refer to drone kills as 'bugsplats' – machine learning cares less

AI + ML23 Jul 2018 | 82

Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto

Moscow's agents used one-time pads, er, two times – ой!

Security19 Jul 2018 | 76

Rowhammer returns, Spectre fix unfixed, Wireguard makes a new friend, and much more

Roundup And NSA can't stop slurping your phone records

Security30 Jun 2018 | 18

Reality Winner, liberty loser: NSA leaker faces 63 months in the cooler

Renegade pantyhose smuggler admits slipping Russian election hacking dossier to hacks

Security26 Jun 2018 | 35

NSA sought data on 534 MILLION phone calls in 2017

Compared to 151 million in 2016, perhaps due to dupes rather than spy boom

Security07 May 2018 | 22

ISO blocks NSA's latest IoT encryption systems amid murky tales of backdoors and bullying

Experts complain of shoddy tech specs and personal attacks

Security25 Apr 2018 | 90

NSA boss: Trump won't pull trigger for Russia election hack retaliation

And Uncle Sam's limp-cock response means Putin will keep on meddling with our affairs

Security27 Feb 2018 | 67

US govt staffers use personal gear on work networks, handle biz docs on the reg – study

As in on the regular, not... oh never mind

Security14 Feb 2018 | 15

Three in hospital after NSA cops open fire on campus ram-raid SUV

Roses are red, spy agencies are black, US g-men don't fsck around when under attack

Security14 Feb 2018 | 44

Roses are red, Kaspersky is blue: 'That ban's unconstitutional!' Boo hoo hoo

New front opens in Russian firm's legal fight with US gov

Security14 Feb 2018 | 59

Shady US sigint base upgrade marred by stolen photograph

Northants comms station architects nicked pic from site that uncovers secrets. Fail!

Legal11 Dec 2017 | 67

US Section 702 spying rules get deadline extension until April

And yet again black has become white, and left, right

Legal08 Dec 2017 | 5

Guilty: NSA bloke who took home exploits at the heart of Kaspersky antivirus slurp row

Maryland man cops to making illegal copies of top-secret code

Security02 Dec 2017 | 113

Kaspersky: Clumsy NSA leak snoop's PC was packed with malware

Lab suspects Chinese spyware was on home computer

Security16 Nov 2017 | 55

The four problems with the US government's latest rulebook on security bug disclosures

Analysis But it's still better than nothing

Security15 Nov 2017 | 6

US Homeland Security says hardly any Kaspersky software left on federal networks

They'd say more but Eugene K's loading the sueball-flinger

Legal15 Nov 2017 | 14

'Israel hacked Kaspersky and caught Russian spies using AV tool to harvest NSA exploits'

Updated Explosive new claims also put a bomb under US-Israeli cooperation

Security11 Oct 2017 | 146

How bad can the new spying legislation be? Exhibit 1: it's called the USA Liberty Act

Analysis Freedom doesn't mean what you think it does

Security05 Oct 2017 | 86

Angst in her pants: Alleged US govt leaker Reality Winner stashed docs in her pantyhose

Transcript reveals leaker's motivations

Security28 Sep 2017 | 56

Intelligence director pulls national security BS on spying question

Senator Wyden not happy with continued obfuscation

Legal13 Sep 2017 | 19

Wonder why Congress doesn't clamp down on its gung-ho spies? Well, wonder no more

Analysis No, it's not because they have Trump-pee-tapes

Security07 Sep 2017 | 34

NSA enters stage two of its spying revival plan: Getting Trump onboard

Oh look, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is being revived

Legal31 Aug 2017 | 13

NSA ramps up PR campaign to keep its mass spying powers

Section 702 saves lives, claims spying agency, while continuing to dodge critical question

Security25 Aug 2017 | 60

Systemd wins top gong for 'lamest vendor' in Pwnie security awards

Black Hat Epic fails and l33t pops celebrated by hackers

Security28 Jul 2017 | 57

NSA had NFI about opsec: 2016 audit found laughably bad security

Unlocked racks. No 2FA. No access control lists. No wonder Snowden got away with it

Security20 Jun 2017 | 31

Ex-NSA bod sues US govt for 'illegally spying' on Americans: We drill into 'explosive' 'lawsuit'

Analysis Friend, do we have a bizarre legal battle for you

Security08 Jun 2017 | 21

NSA leaker bust gets weirder: Senator claims hacking is wider than leak revealed

Intelligence Committee member says Russian hacked lots of US States, some don't know it yet

Security07 Jun 2017 | 90

Cuffed: Govt contractor 'used work PC to leak' evidence of Russia's US election hacking

No, REALITY WINNER isn't an NSA exploit – it's her real name

Security06 Jun 2017 | 124

NSA takes one-two punch to the face

Two sets of judges rule for citizens and against government

Networks23 May 2017 | 24

Proposed PATCH Act forces US snoops to quit hoarding code exploits

Bipartisan bill wants to stave off another WannaCry

Security18 May 2017 | 54

74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+

Special report All you need to know – from ports to samples

Security13 May 2017 | 410

Just so we're all clear on this: Russia hacked the French elections, US Republicans and Dems

And only released Macron, Clinton campaign files – hmm

Security09 May 2017 | 89

NSA pulls plug on some email spying before Congress slaps it down

Updated Curious time to stop listening to Americans talking about foreigners, eh, Donald?

Security28 Apr 2017 | 24

We're spying on you for your own protection, says NSA, FBI

Except we're not, of course, because that would be illegal

Security19 Apr 2017 | 34

Leaked NSA point-and-pwn hack tools menace Win2k to Windows 8

Updated Microsoft claims it has patched most of the exploited bugs

OSes14 Apr 2017 | 93

Shadow Brokers crack open NSA hacking tool cache for world+dog

Daaaamn, these exploits are old-school

Storage10 Apr 2017 | 33

FBI, NSA top brass: We've seen jack squat to back up Trump's claims of Obama wiretaps

Vid Meanwhile, potential Russian campaign links probed

Security20 Mar 2017 | 19

Why are creepy SS7 cellphone spying flaws still unfixed after years, ask Congresscritters

And why won't the NSA open up about Section 702 spying?

Security15 Mar 2017 | 25