NSA Turning Over a New Leaf?

It’s just another day in who is trying to hack who news. This time, the nice guys may come as a surprise to many.

In a rare agency press release, the NSA urged Windows users to update their computers and said the “critical” vulnerability would be quickly understood by government-sponsored hackers.

The agency handed the flaw over to Microsoft, which published a fix on January 14.  Not so long go, the NSA would have simply used the exploit for its own offensive goals, but the country’s intelligence agencies have changed their strategy in the last decade. 

A hack that can affect millions of people is always just a click away and that is why hacking is such a big deal. As technology becomes more prominent, hacking and flaws in technologies will continue to be prominent as well. It will take securities like NSA to help combat hackers.