which enable hackers to exploit vulnerabilities in systems from big vendors like Cisco Systems, Juniper, and Fortinet, were dumped publicly online by the group calling itself " The Shadow Brokers ." NSA officials have also admitted to the FBI that their careless employee acknowledged the error shor...
It’s easy to feel, looking back, that we spent the 20th Century living in a minefield, and I think we’re still living in a minefield now, one where critical public health infrastructure runs on insecure public phone networks, financial markets rely on vulnerable, decades-old computer syste...
The real secrets that are important are covered by “sources” That is the field operational side of not just where the methods are being used but on what/who and who by. It may have missed your attention but this “field operational side” information is noticable by it’s absence in wh...
So now when the analyst wants to target someone who, say, works for Belgacom, they identify the LinkedIn profile, and by searching this database can also get the user’s Doubleclick cookies (and a bunch of others, this is transitive, so it can get, say, their Slashdot cookies, or their...
when barack obama took office, binney hoped the new administration might be open to reforming the program to address his constitutional concerns. he and another former senior nsa analyst, j. kirk wiebe, tried to bring the idea of an automated warrant-approval system to the attention of the ...
challenging visitors in operational areas; determining "need-to-know;" limiting classified conversations to approved areas; following established locking and checking procedures; properly using the secure and non-secure telephone systems; correctly wrapping and packaging classified data for transmittal; and ...
“infrastructure analyst” employed by Booz Allen, but working at an NSA satellite office in Hawaii–many security experts believe that he didn’t just have top secret clearance, but served as an information security or IT administrator tasked with keeping confidential systems running. That might ...
He and another former senior NSA analyst, J. Kirk Wiebe, tried to bring the idea of an automated warrant-approval system to the attention of the Department of Justice's inspector general. They were given the brush-off. "They said, oh, OK, we can't comment," Binney says. Sitting in ...
According to a top-secret operational management procedures manual, FoxAcid servers configured to receive callbacks are codenamed FrugalShot. After a callback, the FoxAcid server may run more exploits to ensure that the target computer remains compromised long term, as well as install “implants”...
Well in February 2010, 24 spies were able to locate 3000 potential ” Operational Relay Boxes ” (that is how they call a hacked computer) in a single day. In the article are even Kernel patches mentioned that protect against this. Make sure to install them….. ...