NSA

With COVID-19 coverage dominating the news cycle, it’s easy to forget that it was only on Monday of this week that the Senate–after a rancorous debate (in private and public) passed a 77‐​day extension of three Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities. One of those authorities–the so‐​called “lone wolf” provision–has never even…

The novel coronavirus has impacted the global economy, daily life, and human health around the world, changing how people work and interact everyday. But in addition to the pressing threat the virus poses to human health, these rapid changes have also created an environment in which hackers, scammers, and spammers…

The city police have slapped provisions of National Security Act (NSA) on three persons who were arrested for printing fake currencies in February, this year. S. Kithar Mohammed (66) of Vadavalli, T. Mahendran (39) of Kavundampalayam and E. Suriyakumar (30) of Thiruvalluar Nagar on Thadagam Road were detained under provisions…

Ready for more speculative execution news? Hope so, because both Intel and AMD are in the news this week. The first story is Load Value Injection, a different approach to reading arbitrary memory. Rather than try to read protected memory, LVI turns that on its head by injecting data into…

Chelsea Manning’s decision to sit in jail rather than cooperate with the US government’s prosecution of WikiLeaks is a testament to her character and unwavering principles, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has said. Commenting on Manning’s newly-won freedom, Snowden noted that the former Army analyst-turned-whistleblower had been “cast into a dungeon”…

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who knows a thing or three about keeping away from unwanted social contact, has weighed in on the latest technique suggested as a way to slow or stop the spread of coronavirus. “Social distancing is underrated,” Snowden tweeted on Wednesday, as the practice made its way…

Democrat and Republican House leaders have paused their partisan sniping to do the real work of governing: keeping unpopular surveillance programs, including roving NSA wiretaps and access to metadata, alive indefinitely. With just four days to go before congressional authorization for the controversial provisions expires, a bipartisan contingent has swooped…

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) warned about a post-auth remote code execution vulnerability in all supported Microsoft Exchange Server servers via a tweet published on the agency's Twitter account. NSA's tweet reminded followers to patch the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability which would enable potential attackers to execute commands on vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers using email…

The Delhi riots, which claimed 53 lives, have now made it imperative for GoI to revisit its political approach on issues, and apprehensions, arising from the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). A technical, legalistic or policing approach simply won’t suffice. Up until violence broke out in Delhi, the…

from the said-and-done dept This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with some thoughts on Attorney General Bill Barr's various comments defending police and painting America as a warzone: The beating will continue until morale improves The funny thing is is that while…