#nsa

#nsa

The White House is withdrawing @JoeFrancescon as its nominee to be the National Security Agency's (NSA) Deputy Director, meanwhile the acting Deputy Director will retire at the end of the month. This means the top two positions at NSA and the four-star commander at Cyber Command will remain vacant for 8 months and counting. All because of infighting in the White House and the involvement of whacky Laura Loomer in hiring. We are at Cyber War everyday and the inability to get leaders in place is gross negligence.

The National Security Agency recently achieved its goals to shed around 2,000 people from its workforce this year, according to three people familiar with the spy agency's posture. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the milestone has not been made public. The reductions include a mix of civilian employees who were terminated, voluntarily left or took deferred resignation offers, where they agree to leave government service early while still being paid for a set time period.

"With the threat to Exchange servers remaining persistent, enforcing a prevention posture and adhering to these best practices is crucial for safeguarding our critical communication systems," Andersen said. "This guidance empowers organizations to proactively mitigate threats, protect enterprise assets, and ensure the resilience of their operations." Anderson added that CISA recommends organizations also "evaluate the use of cloud-based email services" rather than "managing the complexities" of hosting their own.

Achieving better memory safety demands language-level protections, library support, robust tooling, and developer training, as traditional languages can't eliminate vulnerabilities as effectively.

Hegseth’s decisions led to a failed escalation against the Houthis, fueled by unverified claims about an NSA wiretap and infighting within his team.