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15th November 2017 20:08
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Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A.
Security Breach and
Spilled Secrets Have Shaken
the N.S.A. to Its Core
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/u...w-brokers.html
Jake Williams, a former member of the National Security Agency’s hacking unit.
The Shadow Brokers, a mysterious group that obtained N.S.A. cybertools,
identified his work for the agency on Twitter. Credit Dustin Chambers for The
New York Times
A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged
morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in
hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
WASHINGTON — Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., hotel where he was leading a training session. Checking Twitter, Mr. Williams, a cybersecurity expert, was dismayed to discover that he had been thrust into the middle of one of the worst security debacles ever to befall American intelligence.
Mr. Williams had written on his company blog about the Shadow Brokers, a mysterious group that had somehow obtained many of the hacking tools the United States used to spy on other countries. Now the group had replied in an angry screed on Twitter. It identified him — correctly — as a former member of the National Security Agency’s hacking group, Tailored Access Operations, or T.A.O., a job he had not publicly disclosed. Then the Shadow Brokers astonished him by dropping technical details that made clear they knew about highly classified hacking operations that he had conducted.
America’s largest and most secretive intelligence agency had been deeply infiltrated..................................
LONG ARTICLE BUT INTERESTING .
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16th November 2017 08:34
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