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The Secret NSA Search Tips That Will Make You A Spy

Following a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock, the National Security Agency in the US has been forced to make public a book it produced, called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research. Understandably, it’s full of gems.


The NSA Is Training Covert Hackers To Attack Other Countries

For the first time, the United States has officially disclosed plans to develop counterattack measures against foreign nations’ cyberattacks. General Keith Alexander, chief of the military’s Cyber Command and the National Security Agency (NSA), told US Congress yesterday the military is training 13 teams of programmers and computer experts to carry out offensive attacks.


NSA Chief Denies Reports Of Huge Domestic Spy Centre

NSA chief General Keith Alexander faced tough — and funny — questions from US Congress on Tuesday stemming from Wired’s story on the NSA’s capabalities and warrantless wiretapping program.


NSA Agents Will Make Calls With Android Fishbowl

The National Security Agency, America’s eyes and ears, constantly deals with highly-sensitive data. Problem is, discussing that data over normal channels represents a huge security risk — often requiring agents to communicate in code over unprotected airwaves. That’s why the Agency has developed its own super-secure Android handset.


NSA: Anonymous Could Cause Power Outages Through Cyberattacks

Anonymous already has a diverse set of tactics, including showing up to awards ceremonies. But the US National Security Agency (NSA) is worried that its cyberattacks could bring about power outages across the US.


How To Secure Your Android Phone Like The NSA

Every app I download seems to want more and more access rights — to either my SD card, my Internet connection, and even my address book. And with every app, my phone gets a little less secure. The new SE Android OS aims to lock down my phone against any and all exploits.


The NSA Wants Its Very Own Smartphone

The rest of the government has traditionally used Blackberries up to now. Hell, they even get PlayBooks now. Why should the NSA be relegated to ancient secure-phones? Troy Lange, the NSA’s mobility mission manager thinks that sucks. It’s time the NSA got its own smartphone.


8 Bizarre, Intriguing Documents The NSA Just Declassified

It was spring-cleaning time at the NSA, who dropped a staggering 50,000 pages of declassified documents into the hands of the National Archives. A lot’s on the mundane side – so here are the best looking eight:


Lock Down Your Computer Like The NSA

Want to secure your computer with the same techniques used by the National Security Agency? Turns out the NSA has published guides for securing Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris operating systems using methods that “are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline for their systems.”


Former NSA Genius Apologises For His Super Spying Software

Long before 9/11, brilliant NSA crypto-mathematician Bill Binney had developed an algorithm to make sense of the unbelievably massive amounts of data American spies were pulling in – he called it ThinThread. And then it went very, very wrong.


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