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NSA urges system administrators to replace obsolete TLS protocols — ZDNet

The US National Security Agency has issued a security advisory this month urging system administrators in federal agencies and beyond to stop using...

Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors — The Verge

A former director of the National Security Agency and the first commander of the US Cyber Command, Alexander served as the public face of...

The NSA says it’s time to drop its massive phone-surveillance program — Engadget

The National Security Agency (NSA) has formally recommended that the White House drop the phone surveillance program that collects information about millions of US...

It’s time to end the NSA’s metadata collection program — Wired

Since its inception, we have not seen a single publicized instance of the program providing any unique security value, writes Jake Laperruque. Here is the...

NSA employee who brought hacking tools home sentenced to 66 months in prison — Ars Technica

Nghia Hoang Pho, a 68-year-old former National Security Agency employee who worked in the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division, was sentenced to 66...