From a New York Times story and additional reporting by Al Jazeera: Known as Project Raven, hackers employed state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools to help the UAE engage in surveillance of other governments, armed groups, and human rights activists critical of the monarchy. Interviews by Reuters news agency in 2019 with former Raven operatives, along with a...
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What Does the NSA Do?
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) Once upon a time Washingtonians said NSA stood for “No Such Agency.” Now NSA is well-known but is regarded as the most secretive of all U.S intelligence agencies. It is responsible for collecting signals intelligence such as email, texts, telephone calls and radio and TV communications. Its budget in 2014 was...
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National Insecurity: NSA Spyware Used to Hold U.S. Cities Hostage
The story of an American city held hostage by ransomeware hasn’t been getting the attention it deserves, maybe because the victim is Baltimore, a poor city with a disgraced mayor and few national elites. Or maybe the story is not getting attention because the responsible party, the National Security Agency isn’t comment. NSA hackers created...
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The Origins (and Dangers) of Cyberwar
From Michael Martelle at the National Security Archive, the untold story of a 1997 Pentagon exercise that showed how cyberwar could–and probably would–turn into kinetic war.
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Edward Snowden Denies Being a Russian Spy (Again)
The former IT administrator turned whistle blower told a German newspaper: Believe me, the CIA does have its sources inside Russian intelligence. If I was a Russian spy, the U.S. would know. And it would be on the front page of every newspaper
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