Tag: NSA
News highlights for 5 October 2017 Russian hackers stole U.S. cyber secrets from NSA: media reports WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russian government-backed hackers stole highly classified U.S. cyber secrets in 2015 from the National Security Agency after a contractor put information on his home computer, two newspapers reported on Thursday. Read more… Social media executives to […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies. In interviews and emails seen by Reuters, academic and industry experts from countries including Germany, Japan […]
(Reuters) – A group that published hacking tools that security experts believe were stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency – NSA – said on Tuesday it plans to sell a new batch of stolen code in July to customers willing to pay more than $22,000 for it. The Shadow Brokers group said in an […]
(Reuters) – A former National Security Agency – NSA – contractor was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges he wilfully retained national defense information, in what U.S. officials have said may have been the largest heist of classified government information in history. The indictment alleges that Harold Thomas Martin, 52, spent […]
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s surprise election victory has alarmed technology companies and civil libertarians fearful that a self-described ‘law and order’ president will attempt to expand surveillance programs and rejoin a long-running battle over government access to encrypted information. Trump’s campaign featured numerous broadsides against the tech sector, including calls for closing off […]
News highlights for 5 October Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 starts smoking on plane LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – A replacement model of the fire-prone Samsung Note 7 smartphone began smoking inside a U.S. plane on Wednesday, the family that owns it said, prompting fresh investigations by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Federal Aviation […]
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency (NSA) is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available on a remote computer and Russian hackers found them, four people with direct knowledge of the probe told Reuters. The tools, […]
News highlights for 13 September Sprint, T-Mobile iPhone pre-orders boost Apple shares (Reuters) – U.S. wireless carriers Sprint Corp and T-Mobile US Inc said on Tuesday they received strong pre-orders for Apple Inc’s iPhone 7, sending shares of the world’s most valuable listed company up 3 percent. Sprint said pre-orders were up nearly four times, compared […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is preparing to elevate the stature of the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, signaling more emphasis on developing cyber weapons to deter attacks, punish intruders into U.S. networks and tackle adversaries such as Islamic State, current and former officials told Reuters. Under the plan being considered at the White House, the […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional probe into the impact of a hack of Juniper Networks Inc software will examine the possibility that it was initially altered at the behest of the National Security Agency (NSA), a lawmaker said in an interview on Thursday. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform this month […]
Recent Comments