Women of Color Magazine recently selected La Naia Jones as a national 2020 Technology All-Star in honor of her leadership and impact in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). Ms. Jones who joined NSA in 2002, served in many technical and leadership positions, and deployed to multiple hostile areas is currently serving as Acting Chief Information Officer Read More
Topic: National Security Agency (NSA)
DHS S&T and NSA Test Automated Security Vetting for Mobile Apps
Ensuring the security of mobile application (app) software for use within the federal government no longer needs to be time consuming or expensive. Read More
University of North Georgia Recognized for Crushing Codebreaker Success
Desmond Henderson, a senior cyber security major at the University of North Georgia (UNG), thought the National Security Agency's Codebreaker Challenge (CBC) would be just like many of the other Capture the Flag hacking events he'd participated in over the years, but he was wrong. Read More
NSA Has New Guidance for Teleworking Feds
The National Security Agency updated guidance to help federal agencies choose secure collaboration services, changing its determination of whether a number of products offered end-to-end encryption and other security features. Read More
The NSA is piloting a secure DNS service for the defense industrial base
In an effort to better protect the U.S. defense industrial base from malware-based threats, the National Security Agency has launched a pilot program on securing Domain Name System use for U.S. defense contractors. Read More
It’s not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously
The NSA has raised the alarm over what it says is Russia's active exploitation of a remote-code execution flaw in Exim for which a patch exists. Read More
NSA: ‘We Know we Need to do Some Work’ on Declassifying Threat Intel
One of the National Security Agency's newly minted Cybersecurity Directorate's goals is to quickly share information on adversarial threats with the private sector - but the process for doing that needs to be refined, the directorate's leader said Thursday. Read More
NSA to Establish New Cybersecurity Directorate to Boost Defense
The National Security Agency is creating a Cybersecurity Directorate to better protect the country against cyberthreats from foreign adversaries, NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone said Tuesday. Read More
Stolen NSA Hacking Tool Now Victimizing US Cities, Report Says
The EternalBlue hacking exploit, already used in the infamous WannaCry and NotPetya attacks, has now surfaced in the NSA's own backyard, says The New York Times. Read More
Chinese Spies Acquired NSA Tools, Used Them to Attack US Allies: Report
A leading cybersecurity firm found evidence Chinese intelligence operatives repurposed National Security Agency (NSA) hacking technology in 2016 to attack American allies and private firms in Europe and Asia, according to The New York Times. Read More