National Security Agency

New Capabilities

Issued an advisory urging immediate patching of the PHP flaws

Millions of attempts to break into servers running PHP have produced no confirmed breach, according to security firms and government agencies. Nine companies, among them CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Sophos, told NBC News they had seen no successful attacks as of Thursday evening.

Updated Yesterday

New Capabilities

Employer of Jerry Solinas; central to backdoor speculation

The seed numbers behind NIST's elliptic curves came from the C library's lrand48 random number generator, seeded with Unix timestamps from 1997 and 1998. The long-running tip that they were hashes of a humorous phrase was wrong.

Updated 2 days ago

Rule Changes

Gatekeeper of the frontier-model definition

Trump signed a voluntary framework on June 2 asking frontier labs to share their newest models with federal agencies for up to 30 days before release. Within ten days, the government had gone further. A June 12 export control directive forced Anthropic to kill worldwide access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its two newest models, after the government said it had found a jailbreak in the more capable one.

Updated Jun 26