Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...
Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...
Popular Mechanics

6 Years Ago, Journalists Exposed the Biggest Spy Operation You’ve Never Heard Of. It Was Buried Again the Same Day.

A 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing prompted President Reagan to reveal U.S. intelligence capabilities, inadvertently exposing that America could decrypt messages from Swiss encryption machines used ...