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Interesting analysis: "Examining the Anomalies, Explaining the Value: Should the USA FREEDOM Act's Metadata Program be Extended?" by Susan Landau and Asaf Lubin. Abstract: The telephony metadata...
Now that's what we call a joint task force: Uncle Sam chills out, relaxes recruitment rules on drugs Black Hat America's crime-fighters, desperate to recruit white-hat hackers to collar spies and...
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who fled to Russia after leaking information about the US government's mass surveillance program, is publishing a memoir. The book,...
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is creating a new Cybersecurity Directorate to reinvigorate the cybersecurity element of its work. read more
Pleaded Guilty to Stealing Files From NSA, CIA, US Cyber CommandFormer government contractor Harold Thomas Martin III has been sentenced to serve nine years in federal prison after he pleaded...
A former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Harold Martin, 54, apologized...
Contractor Martin sentenced for squirreling away 50TB of hush-hush files, exploits An ex-NSA contractor who admitted stashing some 50TB of secret US government documents and exploit code at his...
A former National Security Agency contractor awaits sentencing in Baltimore’s federal court for storing two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home. read more
Federal agents descended on the suburban Maryland house with the flash and bang of a stun grenade, blocked off the street and spent hours questioning the homeowner about a theft of government...
Too much data slurped in October, months after snoops vowed not to do that Analysis The NSA illegally gathered a trove of Americans' phone and text message records just four months after it...