The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source

Posted by bob on Mar 7, 2019 4:51 AM EDT
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The National Security Agency develops advanced hacking tools in-house for both offense and defensewhich you could probably guess even if some notable examples hadn't leaked in recent years. But on Tuesday at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, the agency demonstrated Ghidra, a refined internal tool that it has chosen to open source. And while NSA cybersecurity advisor Rob Joyce called the tool a "contribution to the nation's cybersecurity community" in announcing it at RSA, it will no doubt be used far beyond the United States.

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