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Aug 10 2021
News
Senators press Facebook for answers about why it cut off misinformation researchers
Facebook’s decision to close accounts connected to a misinformation research project last week prompted a broad outcry from the company’s critics — and now Congress is getting involved.
A handful of lawmakers criticized the decision at the time, slamming Facebook for being hostile toward efforts to make the platform’s opaque algorithms and ad targeting methods more transparent.
TechCrunch
Jun 17 2021
Opinion
Joe Biden's silly Russia summit
President Donald Trump's 2018 Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a manifest disgrace. The former president was thoroughly manipulated by Putin into undermining America and its values.
And if Helsinki’s watchword was shamefulness, Geneva’s watchword is nothingness.
Meeting with Putin in this Alpine city on Wednesday, Biden re-branded existing areas of
Washington Examiner
Jul 25 2021
News
Tucker Carlson’s ‘unmasking’ claim confirmed by NSA investigators: report
The National Security Agency has quietly admitted that the identity of Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson was “unmasked” and leaked as he alleged earlier this month, according to a report.
“For the NSA to unmask Tucker Carlson or any journalist attempting to secure a newsworthy interview is entirely unacceptable and raises serious questions about their activities as well as their
New York Post (News)
Jul 19 2021
News
US and allies blame China's spy agency for 'really eye-opening' cyberattacks
Cyberattackers linked to a Chinese spy agency conducted a major ransomware attack against an American company, adding a new layer of complexity to a threat usually attributed to Russia, according to President Joe Biden’s administration.
"This was surprising to us," a senior administration official acknowledged in a media briefing Sunday on how China’s Ministry of State Security has
Washington Examiner
Feb 18 2022
Analysis
Durham Distances Himself From Furor in Right-Wing Media Over Filing
John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers.
Citing a barrage of such reports on Fox News and elsewhere based on the prosecutor’s
New York Times (News)
Jul 09 2021
News
Biden warns Putin on Russian ransomware attacks
President Biden spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday and urged him to take action to disrupt criminal groups operating in Russia that are behind recent ransomware attacks in the United States.
Biden also warned that the U.S. would “take any necessary action to defend its people and its critical infrastructure in the face of this continuing challenge,” according
The Hill
Mar 20 2013
News
South Korea military on alert after massive computer hack
South Koreas military is on high alert as authorities investigate a possible cybersecurity breach that disabled computer systems at two main banks and at three television broadcast stations on Wednesday.
Washington Times
May 16 2022
News
Trial set to test special counsel probe, Trump’s 2016 allegations
A trial over whether a lawyer with ties to the Democratic Party lied to the FBI in 2016 is set to begin on Monday in what could be the first major test for John Durham, the special counsel appointed during the Trump administration to investigate the former president’s allegations of a conspiracy to undermine his campaign.
Michael Sussmann, a former partner at the law firm Perkins Coie
The Hill
Dec 15 2020
News
Government and industry reeling after Russian hackers pierce internal networks
WASHINGTON — The discovery this weekend that Russian hackers used sophisticated techniques to infiltrate a broad swath of government and corporate networks to steal sensitive information sent cybersecurity experts into a panic, leaving open the question of how the U.S. will respond.
The attribution was made on Sunday, according to one source familiar with the matter, who said the spy
Yahoo News
Dec 11 2020
News
Senate approves defense bill establishing cyber czar position, subpoena power for cyber agency
The Senate on Friday approved the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with clauses that would establish a federal cyber czar, and that would give the nation’s top federal cybersecurity agency subpoena power.
The conferenced version of the 2021 NDAA was approved by the Senate by a vote of 84-13 days after the House approved the same version of the annual defense funding bill
The Hill