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ShadowBrokers got NSA spy tools from rogue insider

The ShadowBrokers didn’t break into the United States National Security Agency after all. The latest research into the group of cybercriminals selling alleged NSA spy tools reinforced the idea that they’d received the classified materials from an insider within the intelligence agency, security company Flashpoint said. Analysis of the latest ShadowBrokers dump, which was announced earlier

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Google open-sources test suite to find crypto bugs

Working with cryptographic libraries is hard, and a single implementation mistake can result in serious security problems. To help developers check their code for implementation errors and find weaknesses in cryptographic software libraries, Google has released a test suite as part of Project Wycheproof. “In cryptography, subtle mistakes can have catastrophic consequences, and mistakes in

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