Nov. 26, 2024

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

We're reaching into the vault to bring you a lecture delivered to the NSA workforce in 1982 by then-Navy Captain Grace Hopper entitled, "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People." Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and mathematician, and a pioneer of computer programing. Among her accomplishments, Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages. She ultimately reached the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, and in 2016 she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the nation's highest civilian honor. Her insights on leadership and her visionary predictions still hold weight today, more than forty years later.

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Nov. 15, 2024

How the Need for Direct Cryptologic Military Support Helped Establish NSA’s Cryptologic Centers

As a combat support agency for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) has centers across the country to provide support to the DoD and U.S. military personnel around the world.

Nov. 12, 2024

CISA, NSA, and Partners Issue Annual Report on Top Exploited Vulnerabilities

FORT MEADE, Md. - Malicious cyber actors are increasingly exploiting zero day vulnerabilities to compromise enterprise networks, according to an annual Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) about the top routinely exploited vulnerabilities co-authored by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and domestic and foreign partners.
 

Nov. 8, 2024

Headline Puzzle 60th Anniversary: November 2024

This month marks the 60th anniversary of Headline Puzzles at NSA! In honor of the puzzle’s Diamond Jubilee, here is a special November Headline Puzzle, based on headlines from November 1964. Each of the five is a different letter-for-letter substitution. All five are derived from the same mixed alphabet at different settings against itself. 

Nov. 7, 2024

NSA Issues Guidance for using Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs)

FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (NSA) is issuing guidance for using Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) to secure computing devices and harden the Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise infrastructure.
 

Nov. 7, 2024

NSA Inducts Five Innovators into Cryptologic Hall of Honor

The National Security Agency's (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History is pleased to announce the induction of five major cryptologic figures into the Cryptologic Hall of Honor.

Nov. 2, 2024

No Such Puzzle: Pangram Crosswords

For each #NoSuchPuzzle in November, fill in the squares of the crossword grid by using all 26 letters of the English alphabet exactly once each. Clues for the words have been provided. Find the letters in the numbered squares, in order. Click here to see an example!

Oct. 17, 2024

NSA/CSS Donates Two Tractor Trailers of Food in Feds Feed Families Campaign

National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) affiliates across the Enterprise helped raise 136,472 pounds of food in this year’s Feds Feed Families (FFF) Summer Food Drive.

Oct. 16, 2024

Iranian Cyber Actors Access Critical Infrastructure Networks

FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (NSA) is joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in releasing a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), “Iranian Cyber Actors’ Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure Organizations,” to warn network defenders of malicious activity that can enable persistent access in sensitive systems.

Oct. 12, 2024

No Such Puzzle: Here Be Monsters

Halloween is coming! In each #NoSuchPuzzle for the rest of October, we have given you a sentence that contains hidden within it (ignoring spaces and punctuation) the name of a mythological creature of at least 5 letters. Find the name of the creature.