http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/tags/nsa/Recent content in Nsa on Karpoke - Just Another BlogHugo -- 0.167.0esThu, 05 Mar 2015 22:19:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2015/03/05/attack-of-the-week-freak-or-factoring-the-nsa-for-fun-and-profit/Thu, 05 Mar 2015 22:19:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2015/03/05/attack-of-the-week-freak-or-factoring-the-nsa-for-fun-and-profit/<blockquote> <p>A group of cryptographers at INRIA, Microsoft Research and IMDEA have discovered some serious vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (e.g., Android) clients and Apple TLS/SSL clients (e.g., Safari) that allow a ’man in the middle attacker’ to downgrade connections from ’strong’ RSA to ’export-grade’ RSA. These attacks are real and exploitable against a shocking number of websites &ndash; including government websites.</p> </blockquote> <p>» Matthew Green | <a href="http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-week-freak-or-factoring-nsa.html">blog.cryptographyengineering.com</a></p>http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2015/02/23/nsa-has-hidden-software-in-hard-drives-around-the-world/Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:04:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2015/02/23/nsa-has-hidden-software-in-hard-drives-around-the-world/<blockquote> <p>The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.</p> </blockquote> <p>» Joseph Menn | <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-russian-researchers-expose-breakthrough-us-spying-program-2015-2">businessinsider.com</a></p>