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
Topic: National Security Agency (NSA)
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
NSA Reportedly Recommends Retiring Phone Surveillance Program
Program that analyzed Americans' calls and texts has become too burdensome, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. Read More
NSA Releases Ghidra Reverse Engineering Tool Into the Open Source
The NSA has released GHIDRA, an advanced cybersecurity tool to the open source world. Unlike the tools previously nicked from the NSA, Ghidra is a more benevolent tool. It's designed to effectively reverse engineer so-called compiled and deployed code and then decompile it into logic that code-savvy humans can understand. Read More
In Case you Missed it: CSIAC Webinar – The National Security Agency’s Science of Security and Privacy Initiative
The Science of Security and Privacy (SoS) Initiative, sponsored by the National Security Agency Research Directorate, fosters a self-sustaining, open, and public security science research community to discover key cyber principles necessary to support improved explanations, predictions and confirmation or validation of predicted outcomes. The discipline of Read More
NSA’s Joyce Outlines How U.S. Can Disrupt and Deter Foreign Hacking
The United States will do more to disrupt the malicious cyber-activity that foreign adversaries are aggressively using to advance their interests, a National Security Agency official said Thursday. Read More
The NSA (yes, that NSA) has a Github account now
And now, it's opened a Github account, and has shared several interesting code repositories under the NSA Technology Transfer Program (TTP). So far, it lists 32 different projects, although some of these are 'coming soon.' Read More