Exclusive: NSA to host a hacker reunion in bid to rebuild secretive unit
NSA will host a reunion of former Tailored Access Operations hackers as it moves to rebuild and rebrand the elite unit.
The invitation-only event at Fort Meade, spearheaded by Deputy Director Tim Kosiba, a former TAO technical director, will tour the new TAO building and pitch alumni to return. TAO, credited with contributions to Stuxnet and once grown to over 2,000 personnel, was renamed Computer Network Operations about a decade ago, and the recent reshuffle undid some of those changes after NSA lost roughly 2,100 staff (8% of its workforce) last year.
- Deputy Director Tim Kosiba made revitalizing TAO a priority after returning as No. 2
- Alumni coordinated via an invitation-only Signal group called 'Terminated Async Operations'
- Threat actors
- Tailored Access Operations
- Malware
- Stuxnet
- Organizations
- NSANational Cryptologic Foundation
- Countries
- United States
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A top U. S. spy agency will resemble a college for a while on Friday, as it hosts a first-of-its-kind reunion for alumni of its most secretive hacking unit.
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