February 13, 2023
Via: POLITICOThe U.S. military has observed a number of high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloons flying over the Middle East and Afghanistan in recent years, a top general said Monday. The news is the latest disclosure about what U.S. officials are calling China’s […]
August 23, 2022
Via: POLITICOThe government keeps way too many secrets, the Biden administration asserts. The sprawling spy community — made up of 18 separate intelligence agencies — sees it quite differently. But despite differing worldviews, the White House is quietly gearing up to […]
March 23, 2018
Via: ArsTechnicaSoon after the June 2016 announcement by CrowdStrike that the Democratic National Committee’s network had been the victim of a long-running breach perpetrated by Russian intelligence agencies, someone going by the name “Guccifer 2.0” suddenly materialized to take credit for […]
Cybersecurity, Federal, Policy
February 14, 2018
Via: FortuneHeads of six U.S. intelligence agencies are warning Americans against using products made by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei. In a Senate Intelligence Committee briefing on Tuesday, the heads of the CIA, FBI, and NSA, the director of national intelligence, and […]
Cybersecurity, Federal, Policy
November 1, 2017
Via: FCWFor months the White House, intelligence agencies and large elements of Congress have been united in emphasizing the need to reauthorize the government’s spying powers under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. There is substantially less unity, however, about […]
October 6, 2017
Via: FCWOn Oct. 5, the House Judiciary Committee unveiled legislation to reform the way intelligence agencies can use surveillance tools, with an eye to keeping more Americans out of the dragnet. The USA Liberty Act would revise Section 702 of the […]
June 26, 2017
Via: FCWKevin Patrick Mallory told law enforcement officials that he wrote two unclassified “white papers” and delivered them to individuals he suspected were Chinese intelligence officials. Messages and documents found on Mallory’s electronic device, however, told a different story. According to […]
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