National Security Agency

signals intelligence organization of the United States

PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD . PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google and Apple under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms. Among other things, the NSA can use these PRISM requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the internet backbone, to focus on

1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States

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Linux kernel security module

1944 Banner-class environmental research ship

secret treaty permitting internet surveillance

1967 Israeli attack on American navy ship

WWII US counterintelligence project

EternalBlue is computer exploit software developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). It is based on a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows software that allowed users to gain access to any number of computers connected to a network. The NSA was aware of this vulnerability but did not disclose it to Microsoft for several years, as it intended to use the exploit as part of its offensive cyber operations. In 2017, the NSA discovered that the software had been stolen by a group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers. Microsoft might have been informed of this and released security

Ghidra ( ) is a free and open source reverse engineering tool developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. The binaries were released at the RSA Conference in March 2019; the source code was published one month later on GitHub. Ghidra is seen by many security researchers as a competitor to IDA Pro. The software is written in Java using the Swing framework for the GUI. The decompiler component is written in C++, and is therefore usable in a stand-alone form.

lawsuit against the National Security Agency

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mass surveillance of entire populations across national borders

United States government agency

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big data analysis and visualization tool used by the NSA

history of U.S. and allied governments' attempts to limit the public's and foreign nations' access to cryptography

controversial pseudorandom number generator

American whistleblower (1945–2025)

US surveillance program

warrantless surveillance program of the NSA in the United States

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easy to use, powerful, and reliable open source software to process and distribute data

Classified product catalog for espionage tools of the NSA which was leaked by Der Spiegel

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codebreaking division of the United States Army during WW2

thumb | right DoublePulsar is a backdoor implant tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) Equation Group that was leaked by The Shadow Brokers in early 2017. The tool infected more than 200,000 Microsoft Windows computers in only a few weeks, and was used alongside EternalBlue in the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack. A variant of DoublePulsar was first seen in the wild in March 2016, as discovered by Symantec.

LOVEINT is the practice of intelligence service employees making use of their extensive monitoring capabilities to spy on their love interest or spouse. The term was coined in resemblance to intelligence terminology such as SIGINT, COMINT or HUMINT.

American NSA cyberwarfare unit

term used by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States

MAINWAY is a database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) containing metadata for hundreds of billions of telephone calls made through the largest telephone carriers in the United States, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.

operations center at the NSA

_NSAKEY was a variable name discovered in Windows NT 4 SP5 in 1999 by Andrew D. Fernandes of Cryptonym Corporation. The variable contained a 1024-bit public key; public keys are used in public-key cryptography for encryption and digital signature verification (but not decryption or signing). Because of the name, however, it was speculated that the key would allow the United States National Security Agency (NSA) to subvert any Windows user's security. Microsoft denied the speculation and said that the key's name came from the fact that NSA was the technical review authority for U.S. cryptograph

communications surveillance program of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States

program developed by the British Government Communications Headquarters

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ThinThread was an intelligence gathering project by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) conducted throughout the 1990s. The program involved wiretapping and sophisticated analysis of the resulting data. The program was discontinued three weeks before the September 11, 2001 attacks due to the changes in priorities and the consolidation of U.S. intelligence authority.

SEXINT is the practice of monitoring and/or characterizing/indexing the pornographic preferences of internet users in an effort to later use the information for blackmail. The term is a portmanteau of sexual intelligence retrieved on an intelligence service target and was first used by Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.