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RSA Conference
Photos: RSA Conference 2020, part 3

RSA Conference 2020 is underway at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Check out our microsite for the conference for all the most important news. Here are a few photos from …

CSA book
Speakers announced for CSA Summit at RSA Conference 2020

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced its headlining speakers for the 11th annual CSA Summit at RSA Conference 2020 (Feb. 24, San Francisco). Phil Venables, Board …

NSA unveils Ghidra reverse engineering tool at RSA Conference 2019

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released Ghidra, a free and cross-platform software reverse engineering tool suite used internally by the intelligence agency. They are …

dark
Three things to know about the dark web

One of the more curious aspects about the dark web is that it didn’t start out as such a dark place: it began with bulletin boards in the 80s and 90s – the markets of …

United States Cyber Command
US Cyber Command gets unified military command status

Last week, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States Cyber Command, which is currently a division of the NSA, will be elevated to the status of a Unified …

WannaCry
WannaCry: Who’s behind it? Who’s to blame?

As the amount of money in the three bitcoin addresses associated with the WannaCry attack slowly continues to rise, the question of who is behind the ransomware is still …

Microsoft
Microsoft to governments: Stop hoarding vulnerabilities

Microsoft is full of surprises lately: first they issued patches for unsupported versions of Windows, then they publicly criticized the NSA for hoarding knowledge about …

Kaspersky Lab
US intelligence chiefs don’t trust Kaspersky Lab software

The big question in Thursday’s intelligence hearing on worldwide threats before the US Senate Intelligence Committee was whether the Russian government interfered with …

Windows
Script for remote DoublePulsar backdoor removal available

NSA’s DoublePulsar backdoor can now be remotely uninstalled from any infected Windows machine, thanks to the updated detection script provided by security firm Countercept. …

NSA
Tens of thousands Windows systems implanted with NSA’s DoublePulsar

Has your Windows machine been implanted with NSA’s DoublePulsar backdoor? If you haven’t implemented the security updates released by Microsoft in March, chances …

Oracle
Oracle fixes Solaris 10 flaw targeted by leaked NSA exploit

Oracle has pushed out a record-breaking 299 fixes for vulnerabilities in its many, many products, and among them is a Solaris 10 bug whose existence has been revealed through …

chain
Shadow Brokers data dump reveals yet another NSA-Stuxnet link

When the Shadow Brokers dumped on Friday another batch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, which has been linked to the NSA, security researchers dove right in. …

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