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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA is increasingly engaging in domestic surveillance, data collection, and data mining. The result is essentially the same as Total Information Awareness. According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game

2008-05-10 01:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...NSA's toolkit for infiltrating, corrupting or destroying computer networks The 34 Army cadets comprising the West Point IT team operated in a different kind of battlefield, but their combat skills and instincts need to be every bit as sharp. Like George Washington said: "There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to...
 
Tags: army university, army, custom-built networks, networks, nsa, army cadets, west, cadets, network
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA's role in cyber-security were reported in the Baltimore Sun in September According to congressional aides and former White House officials with knowledge of the program, the directive outlines measures collectively referred to as the "cyber initiative," aimed at securing the government's computer systems against attacks by foreign...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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NSA Backdoors in Crypto AG Ciphering Machines

2008-01-11 06:51:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA, also known as No Such Agency, had rigged the Crypto AG machines in various ways according to the targeted countries. It is probably no exaggeration to state that this 20th century version of the "Trojan horse" is quite likely the greatest sting in modern history We don't know the truth here, but the article lays out the evidence pretty well
 
Tags: crypto, machines, company, swiss company, company web site, century, 20th century version, military messages, countries
 
 
 
 
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Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret History of TEMPEST

2008-04-30 04:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The secret history of how the nation's spies discovered that their ace equipment was leaking data into the ether has never been told before. But now a declassified NSA document tells how a Bell Telephone engineer stumbled onto a problem that vexes the agency to this day
 
Tags: secret history, nsa document tells, bell telephone engineer, ace equipment, nation, vexes, ether, data, spies
 
 
 
 
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SonicWALL launches the NSA 2400

2008-05-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b5ae14 in Network World on Security
 
SonicWALL has announced the SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) 2400 for small and mid-sized organizations and branch offices
 
Tags: nsa, sonicwall, branch offices, organizations
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

2008-05-01 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...NSA. Basically, the NSA has two roles: eavesdrop on their stuff, and protect our stuff. When both sides use the same stuff, the agency has to decide whether to exploit vulnerabilities to eavesdrop on their stuff or close the same vulnerabilities to protect our stuff In the 1980s and before, the tendency of the NSA was to keep vulnerabilities...
 
Tags: security, bad guys insecure, guys, non-security, security improves, technologies, dual-use technologies, security improvements, agency
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA. Basically, the NSA has two roles: eavesdrop on their stuff, and protect our stuff. When both sides use the same stuff, the agency has to decide whether to exploit vulnerabilities to eavesdrop on their stuff or close the same vulnerabilities to protect our stuff In the 1980s and before, the tendency of the NSA was to keep vulnerabilities...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...NSA. Basically, the NSA has two roles: eavesdrop on their stuff, and protect our stuff. When both sides use the same stuff, the agency has to decide whether to exploit vulnerabilities to eavesdrop on their stuff or close the same vulnerabilities to protect our stuff In the 1980s and before, the tendency of the NSA was to keep vulnerabilities...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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The Governments Top Hackers?

2008-07-01 18:40:47 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit