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NSA Announces Retirement of Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce

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NSA Announces Retirement of Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce 2024-02-21 at 13:46 By Eduard Kovacs NSA says Rob Joyce is retiring as cybersecurity director and will be replaced by David Luber, the current deputy director of cybersecurity. The post NSA Announces Retirement of Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt […]

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General Timothy Haugh Takes Lead of NSA and Cyber Command

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General Timothy Haugh Takes Lead of NSA and Cyber Command 2024-02-05 at 01:49 By Mike Lennon General Timothy D. Haugh assumed command of NSA and USCYBERCOM on February 2, 2024, taking over the role from General Paul M. Nakasone. The post General Timothy Haugh Takes Lead of NSA and Cyber Command appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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NSA Blocked 10 Billion Connections to Malicious and Suspicious Domains

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NSA Blocked 10 Billion Connections to Malicious and Suspicious Domains 20/12/2023 at 18:32 By Ionut Arghire The National Security Agency has published a new yearly report detailing its cybersecurity efforts throughout 2023. The post NSA Blocked 10 Billion Connections to Malicious and Suspicious Domains appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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NSA Issues Guidance on Incorporating SBOMs to Improve Cybersecurity

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NSA Issues Guidance on Incorporating SBOMs to Improve Cybersecurity 18/12/2023 at 17:16 By Ionut Arghire NSA has published guidance to help organizations incorporate SBOM to mitigate supply chain risks. The post NSA Issues Guidance on Incorporating SBOMs to Improve Cybersecurity appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original

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Modeling organizations’ defensive mechanisms with MITRE D3FEND

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Modeling organizations’ defensive mechanisms with MITRE D3FEND 15/11/2023 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz Funded by the National Security Agency, MITRE’s D3FEND framework is helping to provide standardization, specificity, and repeatability needed by cybersecurity engineers. As the framework moves from the beta version to version 1.0 in 2024, we asked D3FEND creator Peter Kaloroumakis how D3FEND

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Security in the impending age of quantum computers

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Security in the impending age of quantum computers 09/11/2023 at 09:02 By Help Net Security Quantum computing is poised to be one of the most important technologies of the 21st century. With global governments having collectively pledged more than $38 billion in public funds for quantum technologies and $2.1 billion of new private capital flowing

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Former British Cyberespionage Agency Employee Gets Life in Prison for Stabbing an American Spy

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Former British Cyberespionage Agency Employee Gets Life in Prison for Stabbing an American Spy 01/11/2023 at 14:16 By Associated Press Former British cyberespionage agency employee was sentenced in a London court for attempted murder, will have to serve at least 13 years in prison. The post Former British Cyberespionage Agency Employee Gets Life in Prison

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Advanced ‘StripedFly’ Malware With 1 Million Infections Shows Similarities to NSA-Linked Tools

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Advanced ‘StripedFly’ Malware With 1 Million Infections Shows Similarities to NSA-Linked Tools 27/10/2023 at 17:47 By Ionut Arghire The StripedFly malware has APT-like capabilities, but remained unnoticed for five years, posing as a cryptocurrency miner. The post Advanced ‘StripedFly’ Malware With 1 Million Infections Shows Similarities to NSA-Linked Tools appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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NSA Publishes ICS/OT Intrusion Detection Signatures and Analytics

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NSA Publishes ICS/OT Intrusion Detection Signatures and Analytics 17/10/2023 at 14:16 By Ionut Arghire NSA has released Elitewolf, a repository of intrusion detection signatures and analytics for OT environments. The post NSA Publishes ICS/OT Intrusion Detection Signatures and Analytics appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source

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ELITEWOLF: NSA’s repository of signatures and analytics to secure OT

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ELITEWOLF: NSA’s repository of signatures and analytics to secure OT 17/10/2023 at 05:02 By Help Net Security Cyber entities continue to show a persistent interest in targeting critical infrastructure by taking advantage of vulnerable OT assets. To counter this threat, NSA has released a repository for OT Intrusion Detection Signatures and Analytics to the NSA

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Securing GitHub Actions for a safer DevOps pipeline

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Securing GitHub Actions for a safer DevOps pipeline 02/10/2023 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz GitHub Actions provides a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), enabling your build, test, and deployment process automation. It allows you to establish workflows that build and test each pull request in your repository and deploy approved pull requests

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National Security Agency is Starting an Artificial Intelligence Security Center

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National Security Agency is Starting an Artificial Intelligence Security Center 29/09/2023 at 18:02 By Associated Press The NSA is starting an artificial intelligence security center — a crucial mission as AI capabilities are increasingly acquired, developed and integrated into U.S. defense and intelligence systems. The post National Security Agency is Starting an Artificial Intelligence Security

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Nic Carter doubles down on theory Bitcoin was invented by NSA

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Nic Carter doubles down on theory Bitcoin was invented by NSA 22/09/2023 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph By Martin Young The decade-old “NSA created Bitcoin” theory has again made the rounds on social media, with one Bitcoin advocate adding more weight to his ongoing theory. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Cash-Strapped IronNet Faces Bankruptcy Options

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Cash-Strapped IronNet Faces Bankruptcy Options 06/09/2023 at 22:46 By Ryan Naraine It appears to be the end of the road for IronNet, the once-promising network security play founded by former NSA director General Keith Alexander. The post Cash-Strapped IronNet Faces Bankruptcy Options appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed

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NSA Issues Guidance on Mitigating BlackLotus Bootkit Infections

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NSA Issues Guidance on Mitigating BlackLotus Bootkit Infections 23/06/2023 at 20:58 By Ionut Arghire The National Security Agency (NSA) has released mitigation guidance to help organizations stave off BlackLotus UEFI bootkit infections. The post NSA Issues Guidance on Mitigating BlackLotus Bootkit Infections appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed

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Five Eyes agencies detail how Chinese hackers breached US infrastructure

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Five Eyes agencies detail how Chinese hackers breached US infrastructure 25/05/2023 at 14:16 By Help Net Security The National Security Agency (NSA) and Five Eyes partner agencies have identified indicators of compromise associated with a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor dubbed Volt Typhoon, which is using living off the land techniques to

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Biden Picks New NSA head, Key to Support of Ukraine, Defense of US Elections

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Biden Picks New NSA head, Key to Support of Ukraine, Defense of US Elections 24/05/2023 at 23:01 By Associated Press U.S. President Joe Biden has picked a new NSA and Cyber Command leader to oversee America’s cyber warfare and defense. The post Biden Picks New NSA head, Key to Support of Ukraine, Defense of US

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Turla’s Snake malware network disrupted by Five Eyes’ agencies

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Turla’s Snake malware network disrupted by Five Eyes’ agencies 10/05/2023 at 14:47 By Help Net Security The US Justice Department announced the completion of court-authorized operation MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware, called “Snake” (aka “Uroburous”), that the US Government attributes to a unit within Center 16 of

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