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CIA director in India, to meet NSANew Delhi, Nov 21 : CIA director Leon E. Panetta arrived in the Indian capital to hold discussions with security experts including National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan on issues like cooperation on fighting terror and sharing of... In this article: CIA, Leon E. Panetta, India, NSA, LeT, FBI, and Hillary Clinton |
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | 1 day ago
Microsoft Denies Programming NSA-Accessible Backdoors Into Windows 7 [Nsa]
Hey now! Just because the NSA helped Microsoft hone the security of Windows 7 doesn't mean Microsoft designed special backdoors for the organization to spy on us...right? In a response to Computerworld's article on NSA involvement in...
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Gawker | 1 day ago
Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7 [Conspiracies]
The spooks at the NSA are, of course, notorious for their role monitoring internet activity, and for their use of warantless wiretaps to monitor U.S. phones, often illegally. So computer users could easily be worried to hear that the NSA...
In this article: NSA, Microsoft, McAfee, Intel, Revenue, Steve Ballmer, and U.S.
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | 2 days ago
The NSA Helped Microsoft Improve Windows 7 Security [Windows]
...improving security standards in software. They've even consulted with Microsoft during the development of Windows 7. According to the NSA's Information Assurance Director, Richard Schaeffer, it's important for the agency to work with...
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OSNews | 2 days ago
Microsoft: No NSA Backdoor in Windows 7
...the executive director of the Electronics Privacy Information Center, raised a red flag about the NSA's involvement in Windows 7. "When NSA offers to help the private sector on computer security, the obvious concern is that it will also...
In this article: Microsoft, Computer security, AVG Technologies, Cisco, and Department of Defense
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CrunchGear | 2 days ago
Shocking: the NSA helped make Windows 7!!
...helped shape "Microsoft's operating system security guide", according to Richard Sharffer, Information Assurance Director at the NSA. The NSA works with other companies, like Red Hat, Apple, and Sun, too. The NSA started the Security Enhanced...
In this article: Security Enhanced Linux, Red Hat, and Microsoft
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The Register | 2 days ago
National Security Agency beefed Win 7 defenses
...Microsystems and Red Hat too, an agency official said. The admission came in prepared remarks delivered Tuesday by Richard Schaeffer, the NSA's information assurance director, at a hearing before the Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism and...
In this article: Microsoft, Red Hat, Apple, Sun Microsystems, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and DoD
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The Seattle Times | 3 days ago
NSA helped secure Windows 7
...spooky: The National Security Agency worked with Microsoft to "enhance" the security of Windows 7. From Computerworld's report: The NSA has worked with Microsoft before to develop secure configurations of Windows and Internet Explorer...
In this article: Windows 7, Microsoft, Computer security, Computerworld, Internet Explorer, and Red Hat
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Computer World | 3 days ago
NSA helped with Windows 7 development
...us, I think it's reasonable to assume that we're doing something similar. But I seriously doubt an official NSA-Microsoft alliance." The NSA's Schaeffer added that his agency is also working on engaging other major software makers, including...
In this article: Microsoft, Computer security, E mail, and AVG Technologies
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NPR | 4 days ago
NSA Is Giving Microsoft Some Help On Windows 7 Security
...computer viruses, worms and other attacks. In fact, the cooperation dates back to at least 2005, when the NSA and other government agencies worked with Microsoft on its Windows XP system and other programs. The NSA, which is best known...
In this article: Microsoft Corp., Computer security, The FBI, McAfee, RedHat, Symantec, Windows XP, and Windows Vista
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Popular Science | November 13, 2009
National Security Agency's Surveillance Data Could Fill Two States by 2015
...a lot of surveillance data from satellites and by other means, but we never quite imagined it was this much: the NSA estimates it will have enough data by 2015 to fill a million datacenters spread across the equivalent combined area of...
In this article: CIA, Salt Lake City, Delaware, Rhode Island, and UK
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Description from Wikipedia:
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States government, administered as part of the United States Department of Defense. Created on November 4, 1952 by President Harry S. Truman, it is responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, which involves cryptanalysis. It is also responsible for protecting U.S. government communications and information systems from similar agencies elsewhere, which involves cryptography. As of 2008, NSA has been directed to help monitor U.S. federal agency computer networks to protect them against attacks.
NSA is directed by a lieutenant general or vice admiral. NSA is a key component of the U.S. Intelligence Community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. The Central Security Service is a co-located agency created to coordinate intelligence activities and co-operation between NSA and U.S. military cryptanalysis agencies. NSA's work is limited to communications intelligence; it does not perform field or human intelligence activities. By law, NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications, but its work includes some domestic surveillance.
- Name:
- National Security Agency
- Headquarters:
- Fort Meade, Maryland
- Founding Date:
- November 04, 1952
- Head:
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- Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander, USA
- John C. Inglis
- No. of Employees:
- 3,000 (approximately)
- Parent Agency:
- United States Department of Defense
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