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U.S. Army general Paul Nakasone, head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command

Don’t Say ‘Skynet’ — NSA’s AI Security Center is New Hub for Agency Efforts

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COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE: Nothing suspicious to see here—move along ...
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NSA’s Plea: Stop Using C and C++ (Because You’re Idiots)

NSA’s Plea: Stop Using C and C++ (Because You’re Idiots)

| | Linux, memory exploit, National Security Agency, Neal Ziring, nsa, rust, SB Blogwatch, Vulnerabilities
The C and C++ languages are unsafe. Instead, the NSA would like devs to use memory-safe languages—such as Rust ...
Security Boulevard
‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads January 2022 Patch Tuesday

‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads January 2022 Patch Tuesday

| | CVE-2021-22947, CVE-2021-36976, CVE-2022-21846, CVE-2022-21907, Dustin Childs, Exchange Server, HTTP Protocol Stack, Latest Warnings, Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2022, National Security Agency, rapid7, Satnam Narang, Tenable, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch, Trend Micro, Zero Day Initiative
Microsoft today released updates to plug nearly 120 security holes in Windows and supported software. Six of the vulnerabilities were publicly detailed already, potentially giving attackers a head start in figuring out ...
Krebs on Security
Malicious Life Podcast: In Defense of the NSA

Malicious Life Podcast: In Defense of the NSA

| | Espionage, Infosec, Intelligence Community, Internet, legal, Malicious Life, National Security Agency, nsa, Podcast, PodcastsCat, Privacy, security
The National Security Agency is one of the world's most formidable and powerful intelligence agencies. Some people fear that the NSA’s advanced capabilities could one day be directed inwards instead of outwards ...
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Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?

Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?

| | A Little Sunshine, CVE-2020-4006, Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Administration, Democratic National Committee, FBI, fireeye, GoldMax, Lexicon.exe, Microsoft, National Security Agency, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA, solarwinds-hack, Sunshuttle, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Commerce Department, U.S. Treasury Department, VirusTotal, VMware
On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. Last month, Microsoft and FireEye ...
Krebs on Security
Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks

Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks

| | alex holden, Hold Security, National Security Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, The Washington Post, TrickBot, U.S. Cyber Command
A week ago, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone was attempting to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, a malware crime machine that has infected millions of computers and is often used to spread ...
Krebs on Security
Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

| | Anne Neuberger, CERT Coordination Center, CERT/CC, crypt32.dll, Microsoft, Microsoft CryptoAPI, National Security Agency, nsa, Patch Tuesday January 2020, Time to Patch, Will Dormann, Windows
Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of ...
Krebs on Security
USENIX Enigma 2016 - NSA TAO Chief on Disrupting Nation State Hackers

How to Foil the 6 Stages of a Network Intrusion

| | Enigma, Featured Articles, Hackers, National Security Agency, Rob Joyce, Security Hardening, TAO, USENIX Association
The cost of a breach is on the rise. A recent report from IBM revealed that the average cost of a data breach had risen 12 percent over the past five years ...
The State of Security
Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

| | A Little Sunshine, Armor, Eternal Blue, gandcrab, Joe Stewart, Microsoft Windows, National Security Agency, PCRisk.com, Robbinhood ransomware, robinhkjn, The New York Times, Twitter, Valery
For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as "Robbinhood." Media publications have cited sources saying the ...
Krebs on Security
Log4Shell Log4j U.S. cyber games fileless malware

More Than 120 Malware Detections Triggered on NSA Employee’s Computer

| | backdoor, Equation, Espionage, Kaspersky Lab, leak, Malware, National Security Agency, nsa, spying
Kaspersky Lab has concluded an internal investigation into an incident that led to the company being accused of using its antivirus program to copy secret files from the personal computer of an ...
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