NSA software available

[RICHARD BARTH]

>From Sophos Security:


NSA posts tools on GitHub

We’re all more familiar with the NSA’s software than we might want to be, thanks to theWannaCry outbreak https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/?s=wannacry in May that built onEternalBlue https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/?s=eternalblue , a tool developed by the NSA as part of its armoury of weaponised exploits and unleashed on the worldvia the Shadow Brokers’ dump https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/?s=shadow+brokers .

Now the Shadow Brokers – and anyone else interested in the tools the NSA has developed – can go to the agency’s newly createdGitHub page https://nationalsecurityagency.github.io/ , where it’s sharing some of its open-source tools. These include one to identify prohibited or unexpected security certificates on Windows machines, a portable VPN built with Linux and a Raspberry Pi, and an architecture for processing streaming sources.

The GitHub page is part of the agency’s slow move to being more open:it joined Twitter in 2013 https://twitter.com/NSAGov – the same year its former employeeEdward Snowden https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/?s=edward+snowden revealed the documents he’d stolen from them – and now boasts nearly 357,000 followers.

The aim of joining GitHub is to “work with agency innovators who wish to use this collaborative model for transferring their technology to the commercial marketplace”, says the agency.
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