Declassified NSA Newsletters

Through a 2010 FOIA request yes, it took that long, we have copies of the NSAs KRYPTOS Society Newsletter, "Tales of the Krypt," from 1994 to 2003. There are many interesting things in the 800 pages of newsletter. There are many redactions. And a 1994 review of Applied Cryptography by redacted:...

Documents about the NSA’s Banning of Furby Toys in the 1990s

Via a FOIA request, we have documents from the NSA about their banning of Furby toys. 404 Media has the story. EDITED TO ADD: The documents are now on Archive.org...

Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance

License plate scanners arent new. Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. Whats new is that AI is being used on the data, identifying "suspicious" vehicle behavior: Typically, Automatic License Plate Recognition ALPR technology is used to search for plates linked to specific crimes. But in...

Child Tweets Gibberish from U.S. Nuke Account

A nonsense tweet sent out from the official account of U.S. Strategic Command is no reason for alarm, according to the department. The social media manager’s kid found an open laptop, pounded on a few random keys and sent the tweet, which read, “;l;;gmlxzssaw” last Sunday. The tweets were met wit...

NSA Security Awareness Posters

From a FOIA request, over a hundred old NSA security awareness posters. Here are the BBC's favorites. Here are Motherboard's favorites. I have a related personal story. Back in 1993, during the first Crypto Wars, I and a handful of other academic cryptographers visited the NSA for some meeting or...

Solar, Wind Power Utility Disrupted in Rare Cyberattack

A cyberattack on the U.S. energy grid has just come to light, so to speak, which disrupted plant visibility at Utah-based sPower back in March. sPower, a Utah-based wind and solar provider, began experiencing a series of lost connections between its main control center and remote power-generation...

foia.state.gov XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-598327 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| foia.state.gov Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

October 26, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Continental Congress” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 26, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Protecting elections fro...

EFF Sues DOJ Over National Security Letter Disclosure Rules

The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the United States Department of Justice Wednesday demanding to know whether the agency is complying with rules that mandate a periodic review of National Security Letter gag orders. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...

EFF Blasts DEA in Ongoing Secret 'Super Search Engine' Lawsuit

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is accusing the Drug Enforcement Agency of improperly withholding documents in a court case that hopes to reveal details about the government’s controversial surveillance program known as Hemisphere. The EFF, which is suing the DEA as part of a Freedom of...

Obama Expands Surveillance to Critical Infrastructure

A little-known policy through which the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security offered prosecutorial immunity to companies that helped the U.S. military monitor Internet traffic on the private networks of defense contractors has reportedly been expanded by Executive Order to inclu...

DHS: Border Device Search Policy Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties CLCR has determined that the DHS’s warrantless, and often suspicion-less, search and seizure of electronics devices at U.S. borders does not violate the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search or...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Emails leaked by #Antisec Anonymous

Department of Homeland Security DHS Emails leaked by Antisec Anonymous One of the Anonymous - @AnonWorldUnite today leaked the DHS emails on internet. He tweeted "A Wild Leak Has Appeared! : AntiSec AnonOps Leak LulzSec Anonymous " The link given in the Twitter post is a link to a WordPress blog...