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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
Regardless of which sect or splinter cell you belong to in the disclosure debate, for most people it all comes down to finding the most effective way to get a fix published and in the hands of users as quickly as possible. But the lines get a little blurry when the discussion veers into the appropriate moment to tell the public that a given vulnerability is being actively exploited.
The effects of large-scale surveillance, security researcher Andrew Lee argues, remain psychologically devastating and debilitating for most people.
The security community needs to change in order for effective defenses against zero-day vulnerabilities to emerge, experts say.
There’s been no shortage of discussion and debate in recent week about the possibility that the NSA has intentionally weakened some cryptographic algorithms and cipher suites in order to give it an advantage in its intelligence-gathering operations. If you subscribe to the worst-case scenario line of thinking, then most of the commonly used ciphers are […]
Silent Circle has said that it plans to replace the NIST-related cipher suites in its products with independently designed ones, not because the company distrusts NIST, but because its executives are worried about the NSA’s influence on NIST’s development of ciphers in the last couple of decades.
Mike Mimoso and Dennis Fisher look back at the news of the last couple of weeks, including some new NSA PR efforts and the Icefog cyberespionage campaign.
Gen. Keith Alexander and the National Security Agency continue to struggle to win back the public and political support they’ve lost while keeping their tenuous grasp on the collection tools they’ve been employing for more than a decade.
WASHINGTON–Security, like a lot of other things, tends to go in phases. A new attack technique is developed, vendors respond with a new defensive technology and then attackers find a way to defeat it. It has always been that way. And right now, things seem to be in one of those periodic down cycles in which the attackers have the upper hand.
WASHINGTON–Faced with trying to accomplish its mission in an environment that suddenly has become quite hostile and inquisitive about its methods, the National Security Agency is becoming more and more public about the challenges that lie ahead and how the agency plans to address them. One of the key parts of this is a public […]
While Congress and the technology community are still debating and discussing the intelligence gathering capabilities of NSA revealed in recent months, the agency’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, is not just defending the use of these existing tools, but is pitching the idea of sharing some of the vast amounts of threat and vulnerability data the NSA and other agencies possess with organizations in the private sector.
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