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HackRead
April 25, 2018
For those not aware of these exploits, in 2016-17, a group of hackers going by the online handle of Shadow Brokers leaked a number of zero-day exploits and hacking tools associated with the Equation Group, a group linked to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit. One of the leaked folders containedÃâà...
Wccftech
April 25, 2018
Considering his background in the elite hacking unit known as Tailored Access Operations, he was already cautious enough to fly to Russia to attend a cybersecurity event with a burner PC devoid of any sensitive data. However, when his date told him she was a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs employee,Ãâà...
WIRED
April 20, 2018
Wardle had come to the city for a security conference; as a former NSA staffer who'd worked on the elite hacking unit known as Tailored Access Operations, he was paranoid enough to bring only a "burner" PC on his trip, carefully stripped of any sensitive information. But when his date told him she was aÃâà...
The Hill
April 17, 2018
A top White House cybersecurity official is leaving the National Security Council and returning to the National Security Agency, the latest in a string of departures from the White House national security team ... Joyce previously led an elite NSA hacking group called the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit.
CNN
April 17, 2018
The former head of the NSA hacking team Tailored Access Operations Unit was recently considered a possible choice to lead the National Security Agency as its first civilian director, one source said. And he gave notice of his plans to leave the NSC shortly before jumping on an official briefing call withÃâà...
CyberScoop
April 17, 2018
Prior to his White House role, Joyce was the head of the NSA's elite hacking unit, Tailored Access Operations (TAO). A source with knowledge of Joyce's exit told CyberScoop that the decision to leave the White House was voluntary in nature but apparently abrupt. Several senior U.S. officials acrossÃâà...
TechRepublic
April 9, 2018
... water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors." No Iranian connection has been named by Talos or US-CERT, making the motive for including the country in this attack unclear. Former NSA Tailored Access Operations member Jake Williams indicated in a series of tweets that the attack against RussiaÃâà...
iTWire
April 8, 2018
Twitter Ãâ÷ submit to reddit. A former member of the NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations unit has played down what appear to be revenge attacks in the last 10 days on sites belonging to Russian and Iranian interests, saying it was unlikely that the US was involved at a nation-state level. Jake WilliamsÃâà...
InformationWeek
April 4, 2018
In 2015, the National Security Agency's hacking group, Tailored Access Operations, lost code that it uses for spying to hackers working for the Russian government. Following the breach, the NSA had to develop new tools, patch newly-exposed vulnerabilities, and harden its systems swiftly, before RussiaÃâà...
TechTarget
April 3, 2018
The unauthorized leaks also provided information on the NSA's Tailored Access Operations program, an elite offensive hacking unit created in 1998 that conducts technical surveillance. According to Snowden's disclosures, in addition to computer networks, TAO infiltrated satellite and fiber optic communications systems,Ãâà...
Mintpress News
March 20, 2018
More releases soon followed, including numerous tools developed by the NSA's elite hacking group, Tailored Access Operations (TAO). The fact that they apparently sought not to divulge the information from the public at large — instead choosing to auction it off — as well as the fact that some of the toolsÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 5, 2018
The White House cyber policy chief, Rob Joyce, was, before taking this job, director of Tailored Access Operations—the elite corps of hackers inside the ... When Rogers said he has “taken the steps within my authority,” he meant the NSA has been hacking Russians' communications in order to gatherÃâà...
iTWire
March 2, 2018
Even today, despite a long-running investigation by the NSA's counter-intelligence arm, the Q Group, and the FBI, there is no clue as to how these exploits, created by the NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations group, leaked to the outside world. They are all now publicly available on the Web and haveÃâà...
Ars Technica
February 26, 2018
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden showed the National Security Agency used these sorts of capabilities as part of Turbine, the automated cyber-attack system component of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations toolkit. In the case of the Olympic attack, officials told the Post that members of the GRU'sÃâà...
Chief Executive Group
February 26, 2018
Before to coming to the White House, Rob served at the NSA for over 27 years, holding various leadership positions within both focus areas of NSA: the Information Assurance and Signals Intelligence missions. From 2013 to 2017, Rob served as the Chief of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), the NSA'sÃâà...
Observer
February 13, 2018
These exploits—or at least some of them—appear to come from NSA's elite office of Tailored Access Operations, which is the agency's hacking group. Arguably the world's most proficient cyber-warriors, the shadowy TAO excels at gaining access to the computer systems of foreign adversaries.
Motherboard
December 1, 2017
“It's not a question of if, it's just a question of when and how bad,” Jake Williams, a cybersecurity consultant who used to work at the NSA's elite hacking unit Tailored Access Operations (TAO), told Motherboard in a phone call. “What goes around comes around.” Williams called for the US government toÃâà...
WIRED
December 1, 2017
Pho illegally mishandled classified information in spite of being an agent in the NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations foreign hacking group (now ... of the security firm Rendition Infosec, who formerly worked for TAO at the NSA (a fact that wasn't public until the NSA leakers known as the Shadow BrokersÃâà...
The Week Magazine
November 14, 2017
Since August 2016, the National Security Agency has suffered a continual stream of devastating failures. Their internal hacking group, known as Tailored Access Operations (TAO), was breached 15 months ago by hackers calling themselves the "Shadow Brokers," which has been dribbling out the contentsÃâà...
New York Times
November 13, 2017
It identified him — correctly — as a former member of the National Security Agency's hacking group, Tailored Access Operations, or T.A.O., a job he had not publicly disclosed. Then the Shadow Brokers astonished him by dropping technical details that made clear they knew about highly classified hackingÃâà...
CNN
November 13, 2017
The New York Times, citing current and former agency officials, is reporting that a group called the Shadow Brokers has been targeting the NSA with the tools the agency developed to spy on other countries. North Korean and Russian hackers "picked up" and "shot back at the United States and its allies,"Ãâà...
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