NSA hacker: ‘We’ll poke and we’ll poke and we’ll wait and wait’

When the National Security Agency hacks into a computer network, it generally relies on tried-and-true methods widely known in the security industry.

Rob Joyce, the NSA’s chief of tailored access operations, said as much Wednesday to a room full of systems administrators and security engineers at the Enigma Conference at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.

“A lot of people think that nation-states are running on zero-days” — undisclosed vulnerabilities that serve as software skeleton keys, he said. But “there are so many more vectors that are easier, less risky than going down that route.” For the full article click here 

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