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The GitHub mirror of the Gentoo Linux distribution has been compromised and the project behind Gentoo is warning users not to use code from this source.

An NSA contractor, who leaked a top-secret document to the website, The Intercept, and was caught, has agreed to a plea deal that will see her spend more than five years behind bars.

Facilities owned by American telecommunications giant AT&T in eight US cities are being used by the NSA to monitor billions of emails, phone calls and online chats that pass through US territory.

Processor giant Intel says that a new vulnerability in its CPUs, known as TLBleed, is not caused by speculative execution and hence not related to Spectre and Meltdown, two flaws which were disclosed in January.

A security researcher says a fix for a new vulnerability in Intel processors is likely to require changes to the core operating system and would probably need "a ton of work to mitigate (mostly app recompile)".

A former employee of both the CIA and the NSA has been charged with leaking information from the former agency to WikiLeaks which published them beginning in March 2017 under the name Vault 7.

Top officials of Chinese telecommunications company Huawei have written to Australian MPs and senators telling them that excluding the firm from the 5G rollout in the country would result in increased costs, an inferior service and pose a threat to the company's operations Down Under.

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Telecommunications appears unlikely to be allowed to provide equipment for 5G networks in Australia, due to alleged national security concerns, a report claims.

The NSA could have access to the code repositories residing on GitHub, which is now owned by Microsoft, if past practices of the Redmond-based software giant are any indicator.

Cloud and operating systems behemoth Microsoft has improved its chances of winning a US$10 billion defence contract by winning a contract to supply cloud services to 17 intelligence agencies.

The US Government has named a suspect in the theft of documents from the CIA, which WikiLeaks released under the name Vault 7 from March last year, but has been unable to file charges against the man even though he has been detained since a week after the first leak.

A year after a leaked NSA Windows exploit known as EternalBlue was used to create the WannaCry ransomware that caused chaos around the world, a security researcher says it is being used more than ever by attackers in crafting threats.

Two algorithms proposed by the NSA as global standards for the Internet of Things have been rejected by the International Organisation for Standardisation during a meeting at Wuhan in China.

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.

Chinese telecommunications provider Huawei is facing another setback in the US, with the multinational electronics corporation Best Buy deciding to take its phones off their shelves in the next few weeks.

Data and analytics firm GlobalData has analysed the data on Huawei and ZTE's US troubles, and has some serious suggestions on how they might crack the US market.

At times, it does not pay to be the brightest kid on the block. But Kaspersky Lab, which has been in the forefront of A-V research for some time, would have got away even with this, had it not been for a catastrophic leak of Windows vulnerabilities crafted by the NSA via a group that has called itself the Shadow Brokers.

Cloud endpoint protection provider CrowdStrike has released research revealing a threat spends an average of 86 days in a corporate network before it is detected, despite needing under two hours to move laterally to other systems on the network.

Over the last few months, there have been numerous reports in both the tech and general media about the US having suspicions around Chinese giant telco Huawei and claiming that the company may be spying for China. There is one simple reason for this: the US' premier spy agency, the NSA, fears that if Huawei equipment is used, then it will be unable to carry out its own spying.

The holders of three accounts are believed to be involved in "fraudulent remittances" from India's City Union Bank to the tune of about US$2 million.