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ExtremeTech
May 12, 2017
Organizations across the world have been hit by another wave of ransomware, with targets mostly concentrated in Europe and Asia. One of the most prominent targets is the UK's National Health Service (NHS), which has caused many clinics and offices to shut down their computers and phones as officialsÃÂ ...
Inverse
March 9, 2017
... a growing preference (and perhaps even need) for the ability to launch cyber-attacks and responses far more quickly than any human. Of all the NSA hacking programs revealed by Edward Snowden, the one that the former intelligence contractor believed to be the most worrying was called MonsterMind.
Lawfare (blog)
September 16, 2016
To take just a few of hundreds of examples, why did his oath to the Constitution justify disclosure that NSA had developed MonsterMind, a program to respond to cyberattacks automatically; or that it had set up data centers in China to insert malware into Chinese computers and had penetrated Huawei inÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 29, 2015
From MonsterMind to TreasureMap, we've only just scratched the surface of the United States' hyper-clandestine offensive capabilities. ... Located adjacent to the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, and scheduled to be completed in 2016, Site M is the future home of U.S. CyberÃÂ ...
Wired
May 10, 2015
We should note that the NSA has a second program that more closely resembles the Terminator's Skynet. This one is called MonsterMind, as revealed by Edward Snowden last year in an interview with WIRED and James Bamford. MonsterMind, like the film version of Skynet, is a defense surveillanceÃÂ ...
Computerworld
August 26, 2014
MonsterMind: Hard to terminate. Another day, another scary thing we learn about the NSA. In a recent interview, whistleblower Edward Snowden tells us to fuhgeddaboudit when the NSA gets its wires crossed. According to Snowden, even the best cable guy in the Universe is powerless when a nationwideÃÂ ...
Naked Security
August 15, 2014
Edward Snowden has described to Wired the final straw that broke the camel's back and turned him into a whistleblower: an NSA project called MonsterMind that would give the agency control of all internet traffic entering the US, the ability to detect and block attacks in progress, and potentially, some day,ÃÂ ...
Wired
August 13, 2014
And there's another prospect that further complicates matters: Some of the revelations attributed to Snowden may not in fact have come from him but from another leaker spilling secrets under Snowden's name. Snowden himself adamantly refuses to address this possibility on the record. But independent ofÃÂ ...
Wired
August 13, 2014
Edward Snowden has made us painfully aware of the government's sweeping surveillance programs over the last year. But a new program, currently being developed at the NSA, suggests that surveillance may fuel the government's cyber defense capabilities, too. The NSA whistleblower says the agency isÃÂ ...
ExtremeTech
May 12, 2017
Organizations across the world have been hit by another wave of ransomware, with targets mostly concentrated in Europe and Asia. One of the ...
Inverse
March 9, 2017
It's called Vault 7 and it reveals the existence of a sprawling hacking program that exists largely in parallel to the NSA's controversial powers.
Consortium News
December 30, 2016
We seem to have forgotten that the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency ... NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden speaking in Moscow on Oct. 9, 2013. (From a ... Its code name was “MonsterMind.
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 29, 2015
From MonsterMind to TreasureMap, we've only just scratched the surface of ... Located adjacent to the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort ...
Wired
May 10, 2015
As The Intercept reports today, the NSA does have a program called Skynet. ... MonsterMind, like the film version of Skynet, is a defense ...
Computerworld
August 26, 2014
MonsterMind: Hard to terminate. Another day, another scary thing we learn about the NSA. In a recent interview, whistleblower Edward ...
Naked Security
August 15, 2014
Edward Snowden has described to Wired the final straw that broke the camel's back and turned him into a whistleblower: an NSA project called ...
Wired
August 13, 2014
Among the documents the magazine releases is a top-secret “Memorandum of Agreement” between the NSA and the BND from 2002. “It is not ...
Wired
August 13, 2014
The NSA whistleblower says the agency is developing a cyber .... More than this, though, Snowden suggests MonsterMind could one day be ...
ExtremeTech
May 12, 2017
Organizations across the world have been hit by another wave of ransomware, with targets mostly concentrated in Europe and Asia. One of theÃÂ ...
Inverse
March 7, 2017
Of all the NSA hacking programs revealed by Edward Snowden, the ... contractor believed to be the most worrying was called MonsterMind.
Amnesty International
September 20, 2016
... Constitution justify disclosure that NSA had developed MonsterMind, ... metadata program was the only NSA program affecting Americans,ÃÂ ...
Ars Technica
September 17, 2016
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has asked President Barack Obama for a pardon, and the ACLU, which represents Snowden in theÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 29, 2015
From MonsterMind to TreasureMap, we've only just scratched the surface of ... Located adjacent to the National Security Agency (NSA) at FortÃÂ ...
Wired
May 10, 2015
As The Intercept reports today, the NSA does have a program called Skynet. ... MonsterMind, like the film version of Skynet, is a defenseÃÂ ...
Naked Security
August 15, 2014
Edward Snowden has described to Wired the final straw that broke the camel's back and turned him into a whistleblower: an NSA project calledÃÂ ...
Wired
August 13, 2014
Among the documents the magazine releases is a top-secret “Memorandum of Agreement” between the NSA and the BND from 2002. “It is notÃÂ ...
Wired
August 13, 2014
But a new program, currently being developed at the NSA, suggests that surveillance may fuel the government's cyber defense capabilities, too.
Inverse
March 7, 2017
Of all the NSA hacking programs revealed by Edward Snowden, the one that the former intelligence contractor believed to be the most worrying was called MonsterMind. In his only unilateral leak thus far, Snowden revealed MonsterMind to be an automatedÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
September 20, 2016
For example, he asks - presumably rhetorically - "why did [Snowden's] oath to the Constitution justify disclosure that NSA had developed MonsterMind, a program to respond to cyberattacks automatically [?]" It is odd that he did not see fit to ...
Lawfare (blog)
September 16, 2016
To take just a few of hundreds of examples, why did his oath to the Constitution justify disclosure that NSA had developed MonsterMind, a program to respond to cyberattacks automatically; or that it had set up data centers in China to insert malware ...
Paste Magazine
July 21, 2016
This piece will take you through some history of Russian intelligence operations, Snowden's background, and the saga itself in an attempt to paint a picture of a man legitimately concerned with NSA overreach, acting out of conscience while becoming a ...
The Japan Times
June 8, 2016
Or ask the U.S. National Security Agency, which is working on a top-secret cyber-weapon system called Monster Mind, which - according to Edward Snowden - is able to intercept any digital communication within the U.S.
MinnPost
February 18, 2016
In the arena of cyberwar, the National Security Agency has reportedly implemented a software solution called "Monster Mind" to deal with cyberattacks. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, Monster Mind launches its own self-initiated attacksÃÂ ...
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