Prosecutors Detail What May Be NSA’s Worst-Ever Security Breach
Contractor Harold Martin is accused of lifting as many as 500 million pages of classified and top-secret material from Ft. Meade, and will be charged under the Espionage Act.
View ArticleIn One Word, What Nurtures Creativity in Policymaking?
When tackling our most complex policy challenges, traditional approaches simply aren’t enough. That’s why the U.S. government has been integrating people with high TQ—like IQ, but for technology— into...
View ArticleTrump and His Lieutenants Are Cyber Hawks. Will They Play Hardball With Putin?
The president-elect is caught between promises to be more aggressive in cyberspace, and U.S. demands for payback against a Russian hack apparently done for his benefit.
View ArticleDonald Trump Has the Keys to the Most Invasive Surveillance State in History
Will he use it to impose absolute power?
View ArticleThe Intelligence Community Faces Sharp Challenges, but No Crisis
Perhaps the greatest risk is that bitter residue from this scuffle over a single (albeit significant) analytic assessment will deflect attention from the more serious intelligence policy questions that...
View ArticleNSA Contractor Could Face 200 Years in Prison for Massive Breach
Harold T. Martin III allegedly stole documents over a two-decade period.
View ArticleTrump Is Showing How the Deep State Really Works
America's intelligence agencies aren’t operating outside the law – they’re using the vast power they’ve acquired within it.
View ArticleComey: Yes, We’re Investigating Possible Ties Between Trump and Russia
In a rare admission, the FBI said that it has been looking into Russian meddling in the U.S. election since last summer.
View Article‘Benghazi on Steroids’ Russia Investigation Needs an Independent Commission
Donald Trump may hate the thought of it, but it's something he should want, too.
View ArticleAt Comey Hearing, Mental Gymnastics on Display
If mental gymnastics were an Olympic event, yesterday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing represented a qualifying round full of strong showings from a large number of competitors both inside and...
View ArticleNSA Official Suggests North Korea Was Culprit in Bangladesh Bank Heist
The deputy director of the NSA says he believes states have entered the bank-robbing business.
View ArticleU.S. Govt. Hackers Get Burned by Online Vigilantes, Researchers
Or is Russia retaliating for President Donald Trump’s Syria strikes through one of its cyber-proxies?
View ArticleTrove of Stolen NSA Data Is ‘Devastating’ Loss for Intelligence Community
Former intelligence officials say leaks are crippling U.S. espionage capabilities.
View ArticleIntelligence Community Pushes to Keep Surveillance Powers
Maintaining existing foreign intelligence powers is "the intelligence community’s top legislative priority for 2017," a new document notes.
View ArticleNSA Halts Controversial Spy Program
The program had been used to scoop up large numbers of digital communications, including those belonging to Americans, "about" targets of foreign surveillance.
View ArticleNSA Director: Russia Hacked French ‘Infrastructure’ Ahead of Vote
Michael Rogers intensifies suspicions Moscow was behind the dump of Macron documents.
View ArticleReport: NSA Analysts Frequently Broke Rules on Intelligence Collection
When searching intelligence data, analysts from the National Security Agency failed to follow the rules “with much greater frequency” than was previously disclosed, documents published by the Office of...
View ArticleWho Is Really to Blame for the WannaCry Ransomware?
Microsoft, the NSA, computer users, and the nature of computer science all bear a portion of the blame.
View ArticleNSA Director Gave Senator Private Tour During Debate Over Foreign...
Admiral Michael Rogers appears to be stepping up his efforts to preserve the intelligence community’s “crown jewels.”
View ArticleTrump’s Bigly Plan to Be Better at ‘the Cyber’
The administration is planning key changes to U.S. cyberintelligence structure, but is it a step backward for U.S. national security?
View ArticleTrump Elevates Cyber Command
The long-awaited move bolsters the authority of the chief of America’s military hackers.
View ArticleIs the NSA Doing More Harm Than Good in Not Disclosing Exploits?
Inside the complicated national security calculus behind disclosing zero-day vulnerabilities.
View ArticleHow the Spies Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fitbit
The debate over whether fitness trackers should be allowed in sensitive areas has dragged on for years.
View ArticleAll Eyes on North Korea
Intelligence agencies are surging resources to focus on the Korean Peninsula.
View ArticleThe Rise of the Cyber-Mercenaries
What happens when private firms have cyberweapons as powerful as those owned by governments?
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