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Snowden’s ex-boss offers tips on stopping insider threats

24

Mar

2017

Steven Bay, a former defense contractor, knows a thing or two about insider threats. For a brief period, he was the boss of Edward Snowden, the famous leaker who stole sensitive files from the U.S. National Security Agency. Recalling the day he learned Snowden had been behind the NSA leaks back in June 2013, Bay said he received texts about the breaking news while in a leadership meeting at a church.

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NSA Using Cyberattack for Defense

23

Feb

2017

These days, it’s rare that we learn something new from the Snowden documents. But Ben Buchanan found something interesting. The NSA penetrates enemy networks in order to enhance our defensive capabilities. The data the NSA collected by penetrating BYZANTINE CANDOR’s networks had concrete forward-looking defensive value. It included information on the adversary’s “future targets,” including […]

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ShadowBrokers Dump Came from Internal Code Repository, Insider

20

Dec

2016

An analysis of the latest ShadowBrokers dump of alleged NSA spy tools points to an insider with access to a code repository belonging to the intelligence agency, experts said. Researchers at security company Flashpoint said today that its investigation of the leaked data points away from an attack against NSA infrastructure, or other theories that […]

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