Tag Archive | "NSA"


17 February 2009 | 15,917 views

NSA Together With Mitre CWE and SANS Identifies Top 25 Programming Errors

Secure programming is a huge issue and it’s the lack of it that causes all the problems we have with vulnerabilities and the exploits associated with them. If everywhere developers followed secure programming practices we wouldn’t have buffer overflow issues or unsanitized parameters leading to SQL Injection. The NSA (National Security Agency), working with MITRE, [...]

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02 March 2007 | 10,277 views

SHA-1 Cracked – Old News, But People Still Talk

A paper about cracking SHA-1 originally surfaced in 2005, from a fairly reputable scientific source in China, it was widely publicised nor talked about much. But then recently, just last month China managed to make a wave out of it, almost 2 years after the initial ‘report’. It was even Slashdotted on January 20th 2007, [...]

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18 February 2006 | 10,566 views

NSA Tracking Nmap and Other Open Source Tools

Check it out! US President George W. Bush visited the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade in January 2006. A wall-sized status screen in the background displays the latest versions of Nmap and some of our other favorite open source tools. Pictures were printed in the February 6, 2006 edition of Newsweek (article) and the Jan [...]

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