Collaborate Disseminate
Nghia Hoang Pho may not have had malicious intent, but removal of the materials forced the NSA to abandon years of signals collection work. Continue reading NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months
A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by Russian hackers.
Nghia Hoan… Continue reading Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home
In August 2016, a mysterious entity calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” began releasing the first of several troves of classified documents and hacking tools purportedly stolen from “The Equation Group,” a highly advanced threat actor that is suspected of having ties to the U.S. National Security Agency. According to media reports, at least some of the information was stolen from the computer of an unidentified software developer and NSA contractor who was arrested in 2015 after taking the hacking tools home. In this post, we’ll examine clues left behind in the leaked Equation Group documents that may point to the identity of the mysterious software developer. Continue reading Who Was the NSA Contractor Arrested for Leaking the ‘Shadow Brokers’ Hacking Tools?
We traveled to Berlin and London to find out more about the NSA’s best hackers. Continue reading Here’s What We Know About the NSA’s Elite Hacking Squad