Tag: nsa

June 14, 2016

Recently released National Security Agency (NSA) emails show that the top digital spying group uses Word macros, widely considered a security risk. Word macros, programmable shortcuts in Microsoft Word, have been used in recent years to distribute ransomware, to launch […]

November 17, 2015

A federal appeals court on Monday denied a long-shot attempt to halt the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records. The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit did not offer any explanation in its widely expected order, […]

September 28, 2015

#intelligence leaders are worried that the next front in malicious cyber activity will be efforts to deliberately manipulate data, altering a hacked system in such a way that users will unwittingly rely on false #information. It’s the kind of hack […]

September 11, 2015

About a year after I started at the National Security Agency, I suffered the embarrassment of being caught violating #nsa #security procedures. I was totally guilty and it was quite humiliating, as you can imagine. It was made worse by […]

August 16, 2015

There’s a new article, published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica, about NSA’s longstanding relationship with AT&T. It’s based on the Snowden documents, and there is a bunch of new pages published. AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad […]

July 15, 2015

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked a federal appeals court in a brief filed Tuesday to bar the National Security Agency (NSA) from bulk collection of phone records. “This dragnet surveillance program should never have been launched, and […]

March 11, 2015

Researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have uncovered more evidence tying the US National Security Agency to a nearly omnipotent group of hackers who operated undetected for at least 14 years. “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered. […]

February 17, 2015

This week, #kaspersky Labs published detailed information on what it calls the Equation Group — almost certainly the #nsa — and its abilities to embed #spyware deep inside computers, gaining pretty much total control of those computers while maintaining persistence […]