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This election season, Facebook turned into a cesspool of false news. A fake story about Pope Francis endorsing Donald Trump spread like wildfire. An article ...
As the 2016 U.S. presidential election draws mercifully to a close, hacking and computer security has injected itself into nearly every aspect of the campaign. ...
The world got a glimpse of the future last month when a large-scale cyberattack prevented access to hundreds of key websites, including Twitter, the online ...
A Ukrainian hacker group claims to have obtained emails from Vladislav Surkov, a top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which detail a purported Kremlin plan ...
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When the FBI announced earlier this month it had arrested NSA contractor Harold Martin, it was clear the American signals intelligence agency had suffered a ...
Julian Assange might be forgiven for feeling paranoid. Shortly after WikiLeaks posted a transcript of a speech delivered by Hillary Clinton to Goldman Sachs, his ...
It was Washington’s worst-kept secret that retired Gen. James Cartwright served as a key source for New York Times reporter David Sanger’s revelations about the ...
The basic facts about Russia’s election-year hacking of the American political system are clear. For more than a year, the Russian government has repeatedly infiltrated ...
The U.S. intelligence community now says it’s “confident” the Russian government “directed” recent hacks into the computer systems of American political groups to interfere with ...
Tensions between the United States and China are high. Disputes in the South China Sea, cyber-espionage, and the continuing U.S. pivot to Asia to counter ...
U.S. authorities have arrested a 51-year-old contractor for stealing classified government information that the New York Times describes as NSA source code for hacking into ...
Without the cooperation of American companies -- both voluntary and compelled -- the National Security Agency’s system of mass surveillance simply would not have been ...
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The Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, begins Friday. The world’s eyes are on Saudi Arabia: Tragedy marked last year’s pilgrimage, during which as ...
By Mark Hagerott Best Defense guest columnist Stanford has undertaken an important effort: envisioning the implications of artificial intelligence over a 100-year span, to "anticipate ...
On June 4, 2015, officials from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that the agency’s computer systems had been compromised in “two separate but ...
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Ever since Hillary Clinton admitted setting up a homebrew server in the basement of her Chappaqua home, one question has always hovered over the case: ...
When high school students want to weasel their way out of an unwanted exam or homework assignment, they typically rely on time-tested excuses like faking ...
Every day, the scope of alleged Russian hacking against U.S. organizations widens. On Tuesday, CNN reported that the FBI is investigating hackers believed to be ...
Often, in war, mistakes are made. Sometimes, in Russia’s information war against the West, mistakes are made and then published for all the world to ...
A mysterious online group calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” is claiming to have penetrated the National Security Agency, stolen some of its malware, and is auctioning ...
The Russian hackers who breached the servers of the Democratic National Committee struck a far wider range of targets than thought, and researchers have now ...
The travails of the Arab Spring, the rise of the Islamic State, and the upsurge of right-wing populism throughout the countries of West all demonstrate ...
Cybersecurity companies studying the breach of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have found evidence indicating that the same group of ...
Greetings from the front. The cyberwar continues. Our operatives continue to hit infrastructure targets around the globe. In June alone we conducted 44 ops, hitting ...
To: President Vladimir Putin From: Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the National Security Council Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich: Congratulations on a great week. I am happy ...
How should the United States respond to the hack of the Democratic National Committee emails, especially the likelihood that a Russian intelligence service carried it ...
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, announced her resignation on Sunday afternoon, just hours before she was set to bang the ...
Until his arrest this week, Artem Vaulin was a pirating kingpin. The 30-year-old Ukrainian's website, KickassTorrents, was the world’s most popular illegal file-sharing site. It ...
Microsoft scored a major legal victory against the U.S. government Thursday, when a federal appeals court ruled that federal investigators cannot compel the company to ...
Most people have no idea what’s in an iPhone. Yttrium and praseodymium don’t exactly roll off the tongue, but they’re part of what make smartphones ...
Naval arsenals have long revolved around missiles. These hulking systems, however, consume precious space, are expensive, and can run out of ammo when a ship ...
A 25-year-old American traveled to Nepal to volunteer after the earthquake. She found a friendly host on Couchsurfing.com. She was never heard from again.