The NSA has warned since 2022 that telecommunications infrastructure was vulnerable to Chinese hacking.
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Ex-NSA worker charged with trying to sell U.S. secrets
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, who is charged with three violations of the Espionage Act, was scheduled to appear in federal court in Denver Thursday.
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Several hospitalized after vehicle tried to enter NSA campus; officials say no link to terrorism
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Several people were hospitalized after a shooting Wednesday morning outside the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, but none of the injuries were caused by gunfire, the spy agency said. It began when a vehicle tried to enter the agency’s secure campus without authorization shortly after 7 a.m., the […]
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How the NSA connected leaked document to Reality Winner
Criminal investigations into national security leaks tend to be long, complicated and delicate affairs. Sources generally cover their tracks, especially in an era when even the most innocuous computer activity leaves an electronic trail. Edward Snowden took extraordinary precautions when he leaked troves of classified information on surveillance activity by the National Security Agency to […]
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Leaked report suggests Russia hackers breached voting software firm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year’s presidential election, according to a government intelligence report leaked Monday that suggests election-related hacking penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than previously known. A Kremlin spokesman denied the report. The classified National Security Agency report, which was published […]
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FBI secretly arrested contractor suspected of stealing NSA info
A federal contractor has been arrested and charged with stealing highly classified information from the U.S. government, authorities announced Wednesday. Harold Martin, 51, of Glen Burnie, Md., was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, authorities said. He was arrested in August after investigators searched his home in […]
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Video: Person killed when car tries to ram gate at NSA HQ
#BreakingNews: Police are currently on scene investigating a report of a shooting at the NSA near Fort Meade. More details to come… http://bit.ly/1MntJO0 Posted by ABC 7 News – WJLA on Monday, March 30, 2015 FORT MEADE, Md. — A firefight erupted Monday when two men dressed as women tried to ram a car into a […]
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NSA said to have used Heartbleed bug and left consumers exposed
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said. The NSA’s decision to keep the bug secret in pursuit of […]
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David Sirota: Fact-finding necessary in NSA debate
In order to have a genuinely constructive debate, data must be compiled, evidence must be amassed and verifiable truths must be presented. This truism is particularly significant when it comes to debates about security and liberty. When public policy disputes involve such grave issues, facts are a necessity. Without facts, we get the counterproductive discourse […]
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Obama proposes new limits on NSA phone collections
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government’s control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court’s permission before accessing such records. Still, he defended the nation’s spying apparatus as a […]