National Security Agency

Cyber Command and NSA Chief Warns Foreign Adversaries Likely to Target Midterms

| | Analysts & Industry Voices, Cybersecurity, Founders, National Security Agency, US Cyber Command
What happened Army Gen. Joshua Rudd, head of both US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that foreign adversaries will likely attempt ...
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Cybersecurity Coalition to Government: Shutdown is Over, Get to Work

| | china espionage, CISA budget cuts, Congress, Cybersecurity Coalition, national cybersecurity, National Security Agency, Trump Administration
The Cybersecurity Coalition, an industry group of almost a dozen vendors, is urging the Trump Administration and Congress now that the government shutdown is over to take a number of steps to ...
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Chinese, A PRC flag flies atop a metal flagpole

NSA, FBI, Others Say Chinese Tech Firms are Aiding Salt Typhoon Attacks

| | china espionage, Chinese companies, National Security Agency, Salt Typhoon cyberattack
A report from intelligence agencies in the U.S., UK, and elsewhere outlined how three Chinese tech firms are supply China's intelligence services with products and services that are being used in global ...
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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

| | AI, AI (Artificial Intelligence), AI Security, AI Security Center, artificial, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity, Cyber Command, cybersecurity risks of generative ai, Gen. Paul Nakasone, generative AI, Generative AI risks, large language models, Large Language Models (LLM), Large language models (LLMs), LLM, LLMs, machine learnings, National Security Agency, nsa, SB Blogwatch, Security Machine Learning, U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. National Security Agency, US Cyber Command, USMC Forces Cyber Command
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 ...
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‘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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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