Collaborate Disseminate
The New York Times just published a long article on the Shadow Brokers and their effects on NSA operations. Summary: it’s been an operational disaster, the NSA still doesn’t know who did it or how, and NSA morale has suffered considerably. This is me on the Shadow Brokers from last May…. Continue reading Long Article on NSA and the Shadow Brokers
The Wall Street Journal has a bombshell of a story. Yet another NSA contractor took classified documents home with him. Yet another Russian intelligence operation stole copies of those documents. The twist this time is that the Russians identified the documents because the contractor had Kaspersky Labs anti-virus installed on his home computer. This is a huge deal, both for… Continue reading Yet Another Russian Hack of the NSA — This Time with Kaspersky’s Help
Seems to be incompetence rather than malice, but a good example of the dangers of blindly trusting the cloud…. Continue reading Massive Government Data Leak in Sweden
Eddie Tipton, a programmer for the Multi-State Lottery Association, secretly installed software that allowed him to predict jackpots. What’s surprising to me is how many lotteries don’t use real random number generators. What happened to picking golf balls out of wind-blown steel cages on television?… Continue reading Insider Attack on Lottery Software
According to a recently declassified report obtained under FOIA, the NSA’s attempts to protect itself against insider attacks aren’t going very well: The N.S.A. failed to consistently lock racks of servers storing highly classified data and to secure data center machine rooms, according to the report, an investigation by the Defense Department’s inspector general completed in 2016. […] The agency… Continue reading NSA Insider Security Post-Snowden
Interesting. I have no idea how much of it to believe…. Continue reading Edward Snowden’s Boss at Booz Allen Hamilton Speaks
One of the features shown off earlier this week at the #MicrosoftEvent in New York City is now available for Office 365 Insiders.
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Interesting article about how a former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association hacked the random-number generator in lottery software so he could predict the winning numbers. For several years, Eddie Tipton, the former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association, installed software code that allowed him to predict winning numbers on specific days of the year, investigators… Continue reading Hacking Lottery Machines