Collaborate Disseminate
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UPDATE: It appears that recently a car belonging to local police department (hxxp://troyan-police.com; police_troyan@abv.bg) was stopped somewhere aro… Continue reading Dancho Danchev’s 2010 Disappearance – An Elaboration – Part Two
Highly sophisticated hackers are poaching components from a leaked library of exploits originally created by infamous Italian spyware maker Hacking Team — even though tools built with this copied code could be detected by basic antivirus products. Cybersecurity experts are confounded by the decision to include this code in the elite hackers’ malware, especially given that some groups adopting the material are conceivably capable of developing more evasive and effective exploits on their own. “To be honest, it doesn’t really make much sense,” said Cylance Director of Threat Intelligence Jon Gross. “This one sort of puzzled us … while you might see the criminal underground doing this, I wouldn’t immediately suspect an APT.” A mysterious, self-described black hat hacker named Phineas Phisher breached Hacking Team in 2015 and posted a trove of internal company documents and other data online. Some of the company’s exploits — like those that can compromise more recent […]
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Approaching the problem from a military standpoint made sense for Cuevas. Continue reading Faye Cuevas Is Protecting Elephants Using Counterterrorism Techniques
Learn from industry experts in a two part webcast of Microsoft’s Modern Workplace series about methods to evaluate your organizations risk for threats and how to protect your companies network and data.
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President Obama has changed the rules regarding raw intelligence, allowing the NSA to share raw data with the US’s other 16 intelligence agencies. The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone… Continue reading NSA Given More Ability to Share Raw Intelligence Data
President Obama has changed the rules regarding raw intelligence, allowing the NSA to share raw data with the US’s other 16 intelligence agencies. The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone… Continue reading NSA Given More Ability to Share Raw Intelligence Data
Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley wrote an op-ed pointing out the security vulnerabilities in the TSA’s PreCheck program: The first vulnerability in the system is its enrollment process, which seeks to verify an applicant’s identity. We know verification is a challenge: A 2011 Government Accountability Office report on TSA’s system for checking airport workers’ identities concluded that it was "not… Continue reading Security Risks of TSA PreCheck
He also has almost no experience in the world of intelligence. Continue reading Trump’s CIA Director Pick Thinks Using Encryption ‘May Itself Be A Red Flag’
Former NSA attorneys John DeLong and Susan Hennessay have written a fascinating article describing a particular incident of oversight failure inside the NSA. Technically, the story hinges on a definitional difference between the NSA and the FISA court meaning of the word "archived." (For the record, I would have defaulted to the NSA’s interpretation, which feels more accurate technically.) But… Continue reading Intelligence Oversight and How It Can Fail
Richard Thieme gave a talk on the psychological impact of doing classified intelligence work. Summary here…. Continue reading The Psychological Impact of Doing Classified Intelligence Work