Having failed in its attempt to auction off a collection of hacking tools, implants and software exploits stolen from the NSA, the mysterious Shadow Brokers group are now offering them individually for sale on the web.
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Engadget |
Untangling the NSA's latest alleged embarrassment – Engadget
Engadget Last week, security researcher Mikko Hypponen found a notice on Github from an entity called Shadow Brokers, a reference to master of the galactic black … |
Immortal News |
NSA's Top Hacker Downplays Significance Of Zero-Day Exploits
Immortal News In an appearance earlier this week at the Usenix Enigma security conference in San Francisco, the National Security Agency's top hacker, Rob Joyce, downplayed the significance of zero-day exploits while noting that there are “many more vectors” that … Zero-day exploits aren't as important to the NSA as you think NSA hacker says zero-day exploits are overrated NSA's Hacker-in-Chief: We Don't Need Zero-Days To Get Inside Your Network |
A U.S. surveillance court has extended a controversial telephone records dragnet while the National Security Agency works to wind down the program on orders from Congress.
Congress voted in June to rein in the NSA’s mass collection of U.S. telephone records, but the USA Freedom Act allowed for a six-month transition away from the program. On Monday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved an FBI application to continue the records collection program until December.
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