National Security Agency

New Capabilities

Issued an advisory urging immediate patching of the PHP flaws

Palo Alto Networks confirmed that attackers chained the PHP2Shell flaws with a Linux kernel bug to take root control of its firewalls, and shipped hotfixes for PAN-OS 12.2, 12.1, 11.2, 11.1 and 10.2. Unit 42, the company's threat research arm, said it independently verified the tooling and results that Dream Security described.

Updated Nov 1

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 Nov 1

Rule Changes

As of June 2026: 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