A file photo of the NSA headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. Some other technology industry executives said privately that it reflected a widely held view in Silicon Valley that the US government is too willing to jeopardise Internet security in order to preserve offensive cyber capabilities.
WASHINGTON: An unprecedented global cyberattack that infected computers in at least 150 countries beginning May 12 has unleashed a new wave of criticism of the US National Security Agency.
The attack was made possible by a flaw in Microsoft's Windows software that the NSA used to build a hacking tool for its own use – only to have that tool and others end up in the hands of a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers, which then published them online.
