“It was truly an honor to be able to serve this agency and play a part in keeping our nation safe. This has easily been the best job I have had,” Gerstell said in an email. Keep Reading
The National Security Agency’s chief information officer may be unsure of what they’re supposed to be doing with attention being pulled disproportionately toward cybersecurity issues, according to the agency’s inspector general. Keep Reading
DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) subsequently released an emergency directive on Tuesday afternoon requiring all agencies to implement Microsoft’s patch by Jan. 29. Keep Reading
OIG focused on the effectiveness of age-off controls implemented in one of NSA’s largest SIGINT repositories to ensure data is retained only for the period of time authorized under legal and policy requirements. Keep Reading
A quarter-century and many research dollars later, the world still hasn’t created a quantum computer capable of breaking public-key encryption. Keep Reading
The United States is suing the publisher solely to ensure that no funds are transferred to Snowden while the court resolves the United States’ claims. Keep Reading
Asked if there was a strategy behind the directorate, Neuberger said the goal was to “prevent and eradicate cyber actors from critical infrastructure.” Keep Reading
Hosted by Cyber Florida at the University of South Florida, Florida Cyber Conference 2019 will be held at the Tampa Convention Center on October 24–25. Keep Reading
In the coming months, Ghidra will get support for Android binaries, according to Brian Knighton, a senior researcher for the NSA, and Chris Delikat, a cyber team lead. Keep Reading
It will reinvigorate the NSA's white hat mission, opening the door to partners and customers on a wide variety of cybersecurity efforts. Keep Reading