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Obama selects cryptologist to head US NSA

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U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated an expert cryptologist to head the National Security Agency at a time when the agency is under pressure to reform its surveillance.

Dave Wreski
Jan 31, 2014

Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged With Laundering $1 Million Through Silk Road

The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk Road.

Alex
Jan 29, 2014

I Spent Two Hours Talking With NSA

My expectations were low when I asked the National Security Agency to cooperate with my story on the impact of Edward Snowden

Dave Wreski
Jan 13, 2014

How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell

Dave Wreski
Jan 09, 2014

Would NSA surveillance have stopped 9/11 plot?

The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future 9/11.

Alex
Dec 31, 2013

Hacker sentenced to 18 months for peddling computer access to US national security lab

A Pennsylvania man who hacked into multiple corporate, university and government computer networks and tried to sell access to them, including supercomputers from a U.S. national security laboratory, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Alex
Dec 13, 2013

DARPA makes finding software vulnerabilities fun

The U.S. Department of Defense may have found a new way to scan millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities, by turning the practice into a set of video games and puzzles and having volunteers do the work.

Anthony Pell
Dec 09, 2013

Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here

The internet backbone

Alex
Nov 29, 2013

FBI sends memo to US.gov sysadmins: You've been hacked... for the past YEAR

Hacktivists allegedly affiliated with Anonymous have been covertly breaking into US government systems and pilfering sensitive information for nearly a year, the FBI warned last week.

Alex
Nov 19, 2013

Dan Geer Explains the Government Surveillance Mentality

This talk by Dan Geer explains the NSA mindset of "collect everything": I previously worked for a data protection company. Our product was, and I believe still is, the most thorough on the market. By "thorough" I mean the dictionary definition, "careful about doing something in an accurate and exact way." To this end, installing our product instrumented every system call on the target machine.

Anthony Pell
Nov 11, 2013

12-year-old boy admits to hacking government sites for Anonymous

A 12-year-old boy in Montreal has pleaded guilty to breaking into multiple government and police websites in the name of the hacker collective Anonymous, reports the Toronto Sun. The attacks were not politically motivated, however; the boy testified that he traded information to members of Anonymous in exchange for videogames.

Dave Wreski
Oct 29, 2013

Fallout from Snowden leaks could hinder next NSA chief

Whoever succeeds Gen. Keith Alexander as the next director of the National Security Agency will be stuck weathering the fallout from the Edward Snowden media leaks for the conceivable future.

Dave Wreski
Oct 18, 2013

NSA Harvesting Contact Lists

A new Snowden document shows that the NSA is harvesting contact lists -- e-mail address books, IM buddy lists, etc. -- from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, and others.

Anthony Pell
Oct 15, 2013

The NSA's New Risk Analysis

As I recently reported in the Guardian, the NSA has secret servers on the Internet that hack into other computers, codename FOXACID. These servers provide an excellent demonstration of how the NSA approaches risk management, and exposes flaws in how the agency thinks about the secrecy of its own programs.

Dave Wreski
Oct 09, 2013

Silk Road bust demonstrates feds penetration of Deepnet

By shutting down the notorious Silk Road criminal marketplace, federal law enforcement is succeeding at infiltrating the most sinister areas of the hidden Internet, experts say.

Dave Wreski
Oct 08, 2013

US indicts 13 alleged members of hacker group Anonymous

Thirteen suspected members of Anonymous, the internet hacking group, were indicted by a U.S. jury Thursday for allegedly carrying out worldwide cyber-attacks, including targets that refused to process payments for the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange.

Dave Wreski
Oct 07, 2013

13 Members Of Hacker Group 'Anonymous' Indicted On Federal Charges

Thirteen alleged members of the loosely organized hacker collective known as Anonymous were indicted Thursday in connection with a series of online attacks on US companies and trade groups.

Dave Wreski
Oct 04, 2013

NSA chief seeks more data from private sector

Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the embattled National Security Agency (NSA), says he is willing to share cyberattack information with the private sector -- an offer seen as a Trojan horse by at least one expert.

Alex
Sep 26, 2013

To reform the NSA, fire officials who lie

The NSA has lied to the Congress, the courts, and perhaps even to the president himself, but no one seems to care. The Director of National Intelligence James R Clapper admitted he lied to Congress about the NSA metadata collection program. He said the NSA had no such program

Alex
Sep 25, 2013

NSA says Snowden took documents from internal website

Former security contractor Edward Snowden was able to obtain secret documents revealing a massive U.S. spying effort from the National Security Agency's internal website, U.S. officials said according to a report on Wednesday.

Dave Wreski
Sep 18, 2013

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Navigating Open-Source Security Risks: The Pursuit of Memory Safety in Open-Source Software

German State Abandons Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

White House Warns: Move to Memory-Safe Languages