National Security Agency

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...

In this article: Microsoft and NSA

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.

...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...

In this article: Microsoft and NPR

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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