Category Archives: NSA

DEF CON 22 - Joe FitzPatrick and Miles Crabill - NSA Playset: PCIe
Slides Here: https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Fitzpatrick-Crabill/DEFCON-22-Joe-FitzPatrick-Miles-Crabill-NSA-Playset-PCIe.pdf NSA Playset: PCIe Joe FitzPatrick...

By: DEFCONConference

Continued here:
DEF CON 22 - Joe FitzPatrick and Miles Crabill - NSA Playset: PCIe - Video

SMP NSA - Era Harmonis @Festival INLA 2014 by Motion Addict
Universal Family Dunia Satu Keluarga To Protect, Love Glorify Life Melindungi, Mencintai Memuliakan Kehidupan http://www.the-inla.org.

By: INLA Jatim

See more here:
SMP NSA - Era Harmonis @Festival INLA 2014 by Motion Addict - Video

NSA monolouge

By: Daniel Glowacki

Read more here:
NSA monolouge - Video

Technieuws - Week 52-2014 - NSA hackt SSH
Elke week gaat Jeffrey de belangrijkste nieuwsitems van de afgelopen week in een korte video aan jullie presenteren. Dit is de tweede aflevering!

By: WumboTech

More here:
Technieuws - Week 52-2014 - NSA hackt SSH - Video

NSA update

By: Joey Kershinar

See the article here:
NSA update - Video

CIA NSA Stalls Torture Report Until Friendly GOP Senator Becomes Chair
More videos at : http://www.youtube.com/user/THEINFOSWARRIORS topic in the chain : Bolshevism Gaza Genocide Iran Iraq Israel Jew World Order Jews Libya Max Igan middle east Neocons ...

By: Alex Jones Best Off

Originally posted here:
CIA NSA Stalls Torture Report Until Friendly GOP Senator Becomes Chair - Video

NSA-Tvice in Haiti@Karib Hotel
via YouTube Capture.

By: Club Lougarou

See original here:
NSA-Tvice in Haiti@Karib Hotel - Video

Infiltrated: Two NSA tools exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability. Photo: Reuters

Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some internet communications, according to researchers.

In December it was reported the NSA had paid RSA $US10 million ($10,800,000) to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random-number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw or "back door" that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption.

A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability.

The professors found that the tool, known as the Extended Random extension for secure websites, could help crack a version of RSA's Dual Elliptic Curve software tens of thousands of times faster, according to an advance copy of their research shared with Reuters.

Advertisement

While Extended Random was not widely adopted, the new research sheds light on how the NSA extended the reach of its surveillance under cover of advising companies on protection.

RSA, now owned by EMC, did not dispute the research when contacted by Reuters for comment. The company said it had not intentionally weakened security on any product and noted that Extended Random did not prove popular and had been removed from RSA's protection software in the past six months.

"We could have been more sceptical of NSA's intentions," RSA chief technologist Sam Curry said. "We trusted them because they are charged with security for the US government and US critical infrastructure."

Mr Curry declined to say if the government had paid RSA to incorporate Extended Random in its BSafe security kit, which also housed Dual Elliptic Curve.

Visit link:
NSA's penetration of RSA security was two-pronged: researchers

Barack Obama: Spying reforms could force US telcos to collect more data. Photo: Reuters

US President Barack Obama's plan for overhauling the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program could force American telcos to collect and store customer data that they are not currently legally obliged to keep, officials say.

One complication arises from the popularity of flat-rate or unlimited calling plans, which are used by the vast majority of Americans.

While the US Federal Communications Commission requires phone companies to retain records on "toll" or long-distance calls for 18 months, the rule's application is vague for subscribers of unlimited phone plans because they do not get billed for individual calls.

Advertisement

That could change if the Obama administration pushes through with a proposal to require carriers instead of the NSA to collect and store phone metadata, which includes dialled numbers and call lengths but not the content of conversations. Under the proposal, phone companies would be required to turn over the data to the NSA in response to a court-approved government request.

US officials said the carriers might be forced to create new mechanisms to ensure metadata from flat-rate subscribers could be monitored. They said these issues will require further discussion between the White House, Congress and industry.

"These are very complex systems," said one industry source familiar with data storage policies. "I doubt there are companies out there that have a nice, neat, single database that can tell you how long records are kept universally."

To great fanfare last month, the Obama administration unveiled a proposal to end the NSA's bulk collection of millions of records of phone calls. But the announcement glossed over key practical issues in implementing the new procedures.

The potential gap in records for flat-rate subscribers, as well as the telcos' strong opposition to onerous data retention requirements, underscores the still-fluid nature of the NSA reforms.

See more here:
NSA overhaul may require phone carriers to store more data

Inside Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg [31c3] by Bill Scannell
Inside Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg The story of the NSA listening post told by an ex-SIGINT analyst who worked there Of all the NSA #39;s Cold War listeni...

By: CCCen

See the article here:
Inside Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg [31c3] by Bill Scannell - Video