US intelligence agencies say Russia was likely behind the SolarWinds hack

Posted on 06/01/2021 by Engadget

America’s intelligence community has issued a joint statement naming Russia as the most likely source of the SolarWinds hack. Representatives from the FBI, NSA and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), via the Office of the Directo...

SolarWinds hack may have been much wider than first thought

Posted on 02/01/2021 by Engadget

The scope of the SolarWinds hack keeps growing. The New York Times has conducted interviews indicating that the allegedly Russia-backed campaign was much further-reaching than initially believed. Where the intruders allegedly scouted ‘just’ a few doz...

Trump administration proposes splitting Cyber Command from the NSA

Posted on 20/12/2020 by Engadget

The Trump administration elevated the role of Cyber Command in 2018, and now it’s apparently ready to give the division its own berth. Defense One reports that officials have proposed splitting Cyber Command leadership from the NSA. It’s not certain...

Microsoft confirms it found compromised SolarWinds code in its systems

Posted on 18/12/2020 by Engadget

Various organizations are grappling with the impact of a massive hacking campaign that compromised networks using SolarWinds’ Orion network management tools, and now Microsoft says it found “malicious binaries” on its systems. As Reuters reports, the...

Judge rules FBI, NSA broke the law or court orders with data collection

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

If you were concerned that federal agents might play fast and loose with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's Section 702 while gathering data, your worries were well-founded. The Washington Post reports that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...

The NSA tells military personnel to avoid using location services

Posted on 04/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The National Security Agency (NSA) has shared new guidance with US military and intelligence personnel, suggesting they take additional precautions to safeguard their location data. The agency argues the information devices and apps collect can pose...

NSA says Russian hackers are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research

Posted on 16/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Russian hackers are trying to steal research on COVID-19 vaccines, according to intelligence services in the US, UK and Canada, The National Security Agency (NSA) said a group that has been linked to Russian intelligence has targeted health care orga...

Hitting the Books: The media’s role in history’s most damaging data dump

Posted on 27/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

We humans are a deeply gullible bunch, willing to credulously believe any half truth, even outright lie, so long as it aligns with our existing opinions and preconceptions. The rise of modern media — especially the anonymous world of social media — h...

NYT: $100 million US phone surveillance program produced two unique leads

Posted on 26/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

After 2015, the USA Freedom Act replaced NSA mass surveillance of American's call metadata that had been enacted under the Patriot Act and Section 215. While it didn't go so far as to completely reform the system as groups like the EFF and ACLU hoped...

Bipartisan bill would scale back key section of the Patriot Act

Posted on 23/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced new legislation that would attempt to reform Section 215 of the Patriot Act definitively. Democratic and Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate have co-sponsored Wyden's Safeguarding Americans' Priva...

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