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RSA 2018 – Panic

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While I wandered through RSA today, a song came to mind. You might recognize it, especially if you wore a lot of black clothes in the 1980s.  Its Panic. RSA 2018 is all about panic. Enjoy my new lyrics to this Smiths song. Panic on the streets of … Continue reading RSA 2018 – Panic→

U.S. Cyber Command chief calls for debate around hacking unit’s authorities

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Lawmakers and Pentagon leadership are considering plans that could one day provide U.S. Cyber Command with additional authorities to more easily operate outside declared war zones, two senior U.S. officials acknowledged Wednesday during an open congressional hearing. The testimony confirms aspects of a story CyberScoop published Wednesday about a push inside the government to give more authority to the military’s top hacking unit. That story described concerns shared in the intelligence community about the potential impact of a spike in cyber warfare operations. Such a shift in policy may allow Cyber Command to offer more protection to private companies, including those that own and operate what the U.S. government considers “critical infrastructure.” When it comes to offensive measures, the shift could also open the door for soldiers to hack a much wider array of targets; beyond the Middle East, where the military is already engaged in firefights. Under existing authorities, U.S. […]

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NSA official: U.S. has yet to hit Russia back ‘where it hurts’ for cyber aggression

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The Trump administration has yet to hit Russia “where it hurts” after Russian intelligence agencies orchestrated a complex operation in 2016 that saw U.S. political organizations hacked and targeted propaganda spread among voters, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official. Natalie Laing, the deputy director of operations at the NSA, told attendees of an exclusive security conference Monday that the U.S. doesn’t “yet have the political fortitude to say how we’ll strike back.” The comment follows recent public testimony by current NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers and his presumed successor, Gen. Paul Nakasone, regarding the lack of a coherent, aggressive response to Russia’s bad behavior in cyberspace. The executive branch would be responsible for developing such a strategy, which would then be carried out by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Pentagon leadership. A historic intelligence community report published in January 2017 showed that the Russian government […]

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Trump’s new national security adviser is a DNC breach truther

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President Donald Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser has a history of denying that Russian hackers breached the Democratic National Committee in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. “It’s not at all clear to me just viewing this from the outside that this hacking into the DNC and the RNC computers was not a false flag operation,” John Bolton said on Fox News in December 2016. “The question that has to be asked is, why did the Russians run their smart intelligence service against Hillary [Clinton]’s server, but their dumb intelligence services against the election?” That opinion runs counter to what most cybersecurity experts, the U.S. intelligence community and even current Trump administration officials say. In fact, the only known organization that’s entertained this same assertion is The Nation, a typically left-leaning liberal news outlet, which was subsequently mocked for its story that suggested as much. The latter half of […]

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