Chinese spooks hacking US mobile users in real time
Reds under the beds
Millions of US mobile users could be vulnerable to Chinese government spooks who are apparently desperate to know when they are picking up their snowflakes from school and where they order their pizza.
NSA wants companies to move to memory safe languages
C#, Go, Java, Ruby, or Swift never forget
The National Security Agency (NSA) wants people to move to memory safe programming languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, or Swift.
NSA gives cloud computing contract to Amazon
Return of the Jedi?
The US National Security Agency has re-awarded a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Amazon Web Services after it was forced to review the contract.
Patching vulnerabilities is useless
The “Thoughts and Prayers” of the IT industry
Patching of vulnerabilities is the security industry's equivalent of sending “thoughts and prayers” to solve global catastrophes, according to a US security expert.
Chinese discover Uncle Sam behind decade-old hacking tool
Turns out it was not made in Russia after all
A Chinese cybersecurity company accused the NSA of being behind a hacking tool used for ten years.
US spooks avoid “back door” questions
Er...um... Huawei?
A US politician is asking the National Security Agency (NSA) about its implementation of back doors in technology products that let spooks spy on network traffic.
FBI and NSA reveal Russia’s Linux malware
Been developed and deployed
The FBI and NSA have published a joint security alert containing details about a new strain of Linux malware that the two agencies say was developed and deployed in real-world attacks by Russia's military hackers.
Microsoft patches big bug in Windows 10
Spotted by the NSA
Microsoft has patched a serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows.
The National Security Agency gets cybersecurity directorate
Wants to spruce up cyberwar efforts.
The National Security Agency will create a cybersecurity directorate later this year as part of a wider effort to align the agency's offensive and defensive operations more closely, US officials said.
Chinese spooks using NSA hacking tools
Thanks for the development work guys
Chinese spooks nicked National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia.