This was reported by news agency Reuters according to US officials.
The NSA, which came under attack because of the widespread spying on citizens wanted to criticize the method rid of by saying that vulnerabilities are reported to software developers.
Cyber Attacks
According to the officials is that only one side of the story. The NSA would in most cases first perform cyber attacks through vulnerabilities in order to get their hands on information.
Only after the software maker informed so that they can stop the leak with an update or patch.
Known cyber attacks that the NSA along with an Israeli security has done have been done with the software Stuxnet.
Stuxnet used vulnerabilities in software from Microsoft and Siemens to penetrate in systems. The software makers were not aware of the vulnerabilities. In 2010 the existence of Stuxnet was revealed
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