Hackers have come close several times to shutting down elements of the country’s infrastructure, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday. At an event on cybersecurity hosted by the Washington Post, Napolitano
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Cloud computing, which has raised concerns over security risks, will make the intelligence community more secure and efficient, the head of the National Security Agency said Thursday. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, also
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A U.S. lawmaker and a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday called for U.S. government officials to put more pressure on their Chinese counterparts to stop a cyber-espionage campaign
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The government could use cellular data to track the location of Americans as they move around the U.S., National Security Agency General Counsel Matthew Olsen said Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reports
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The Defense Department’s U.S. Cyber Command is adding on new appointees to its organization. Rear Adm. Sean Filipowski will serve as the new deputy director of operations, replacing Rear Adm. Jan Tighe,
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Photo: Matthew Olsen, National Counterterrorism Center President Barack Obama has chosen Matthew Olsen as his next director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Olsen, formerly general counsel for the National Security Agency, will
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Funding for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — or ISR as it’s known — is thought to be one area of the Defense Department’s budget pie that won’t be shrinking any time soon.
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The House overwhelmingly approved late last week a 2011 authorization for intelligence spending, The New York Times reported. Overall, the 16 member agencies of the intelligence community, which includes the CIA and
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In a letter to CIA employees posted on the agency’s website yesterday, Director Panetta, who is soon to depart for the top job at the Defense Department, hailed the work of the
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Underlying President Barack Obama’s address to the nation — announcing the death of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Special Forces in a “surgical operation†in northwest Pakistan — was the power and
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