IronNet Has Shut Down

After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA and US CyberCommand, Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that it was based on IP he developed on his own time while still in the military. That always troubled me...

The NSA, Snowden and the Internet's Offensive Future

Despite everything that has transpired in the last year, Edward Snowden sounded calm, reflective and in some ways wistful yesterday discussing the fallout and consequences of the multitude of NSA programs and methods he’s revealed. Snowden bemoaned the fact that the NSA specifically and the...

Snowden: Surveillance Has Damaged Internet, U.S. Economy

The mass surveillance programs that he revealed through media leaks in the last year have not only compromised the privacy and security of Americans, but have damaged the country’s economy, Edward Snowden said in an interview Monday. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who sto...

Navy's Cyberwar Expert - New Director of NSA, replacing Gen. Keith Alexander

It is very clear that when we talk about Intelligence and Surveillance, the first name comes to our mind is the U.S National Security Agency NSA and, the second is Gen. Keith Alexander, the Director of NSA..GEEK behind the massive surveillance Programs. Many documents revealed by the former NSA’s...

NSA Metadata Program Likely Not Cost-Effective, Researchers Say

While much of the coverage of the surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden have focused on the legality and constitutionality of the collection of metadata and Internet traffic in the name of counter-terrorism and national security, the question of whether these programs are actually cost...

NSA Director to Retain Cyber Command Role

Since its inception in 2009, the U.S. Cyber Command has been run by the director of the National Security Agency. The two organizations are intertwined and even share the same space in Maryland. The continuous leaks of NSA documents this year has led some politicians and critics to argue that the...

NSA Trying to Change the Surveillance Narrative

When things go badly in Washington, D.C., when a scandal breaks or damaging leaks begin to surface, there is an established and well-worn playbook that politicians and executives can turn to for solace. There’s a page for every conceivable situation, and it’s that playbook that the National...

Petition Seeks Removal of Alexander as NSA Director

It has been a rough few months for the National Security Agency, and specifically for its director, Gen. Keith Alexander. The leaks of details of NSA surveillance programs by former contractor Edward Snowden have taken over the news cycle this summer and put the agency’s business out in the open...

Scenes from Black Hat USA 2013

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Gen. Keith Alexander Black Hat Keynote

When Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency and chief of U.S. Cyber Command, agreed to deliver the opening keynote at Black Hat USA 2013, he had no idea that by the time he took the stage many of the NSA’s most secret information-collection programs would be public...

NSA Director Alexander Defends Surveillance at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS –NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander’s keynote today at Black Hat USA 2013 was a tense confessional, an hour-long emotional and sometimes angry ride that shed some new insight into the spy agency’s two notorious data collection programs, inspired moments of loud applause in support of the...

EFF, Eclectic Group of Organizations Sue NSA Over Data Collection

If politics makes strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, wholesale government surveillance takes that to an entirely new level. The clearest evidence yet of the broad and diverse set of groups opposed to the NSA’s domestic spying programs came Tuesday when the EFF said that is representing a...

Suit Filed Against NSA, Obama Over Surveillance Program

A group of people, including a former federal prosecutor and the parents of a Navy SEAL sniper killed in action, have filed a class-action law suit against the National Security Agency, Verizon and President Obama over the NSA’s collection of cell phone data. The suit says the order that enabled...

NSA Director Alexander: US Building Cyberattack Teams

More rhetoric is coming out of Washington regarding the use of malware as an auxiliary weapon to bombs and bullets. National Security Agency leader Gen. Keith Alexander told a House Armed Services Committee yesterday that his new Cyber Command will be ready to retaliate should the United States...

Pentagon Plans Massive Increase in Cybersecurity Teams

As the Senate pushes for legislation to improve information-sharing on threats and attacks and President Barack Obama prepares to issue an executive order on cybersecurity, the Department of Defense is looking for a massive increase in the number of trained cybersecurity personnel helping to defe...

NSA Director to Head U.S. Cyber Command

The U.S. Senate has approved Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, to also head the military’s recently created U.S. Cyber Command. Read the full article. Computerworld...