Security News

Cybersecurity and the 2017 US National Security Strategy
2018-01-10 13:27

Commentaries on the 2017 US national security strategy by Michael Sulmeyer and Ben Buchanan....

US National Security Agency Chief to Retire
2018-01-07 15:41

National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers, the US signals intelligence czar, plans to retire within months after a four-year term scarred by damaging leaks, US intelligence sources...

Exploring Cyber's Role in the New National Security Strategy
2017-12-19 10:17

An analysis of the cyber component of the Trump administration's just-published National Security Strategy leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security. Also, DHS and industry establish a cyber...

Privacy Activists Suffer Legal Setback In National Security Letter Case (Threatpost)
2017-07-18 18:34

Cloudflare and network operator Credo Mobile suffered a legal defeat when U.S. appeals court ruled to uphold a gag order on FBI surveillance data.

Court Upholds Gag Orders in National Security Letters (Security Week)
2017-07-18 17:14

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco confirmed a lower court decision Monday that gag orders included in FBI National Security Letters (NSLs) do not violate the First Amendment...

EFF Sues DOJ Over National Security Letter Disclosure Rules (Threatpost)
2017-06-07 21:18

The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the United States Department of Justice demanding to know whether the agency is complying with rules that mandate a periodic review of National Security...

Apple Receives First National Security Letter, Reports Spike in Requests for Data (Threatpost)
2017-05-23 17:06

Apple revealed this week that it received at least one National Security Letter from the U.S. government for user data during the last six months of 2016