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Chinese Military Officers Hacked Equifax, Justice Department Says
DOJ officials highlighted the theft of intellectual property and personal information in one of the biggest online thefts in history.
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New Counterintelligence Strategy to Boost Sharing on Cyber Threats
To be rolled out Monday, the strategy adds the private sector as a customer of the intelligence community.
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Spotted: Ransomware That Targets Industrial Controls
EKANS is the first known malware made to freeze the systems that run electrical utilities and the like, says cyber firm Dragos, adding that there's no apparent link to Iran.
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Britain and America Have a China Problem
London’s and Washington’s differing assessments of Beijing’s rise point to deeper issues between the two countries.
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US Army Sleuths Seek Social-Media Search Services
The Criminal Investigation Command is looking to tap into social media sites for digital evidence.
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Spies Like AI: The Future of Artificial Intelligence for the US Intelligence Community
Putting AI to its broadest use in national defense will mean hardening it against attack.
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State Department Still Has Poor Cybersecurity, Audit Finds
Spending more money didn't fix problems auditors have been reporting for more than a decade, State's IG found.
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Saudi Arabia’s Phone Hacking Shows We Need Better Encryption — Not Backdoors
End-to-end encryption isn’t good enough. Files and cloud backups need strong crypto as well.
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The Pentagon Must Replace Some Hackable Computer Chips
Last year’s vulnerability revelations, combined with the tardiness of manufacturers’ responses, leave the military with an expensive choice.
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Russia’s ‘Data Localization’ Efforts May Guide Other Governments
Moscow’s efforts to keep data on home soil are of interest to other authoritarian states — and even some liberal democracies.
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Iran Is Expanding Its Online Disinformation Operations
Tehran isn’t as practiced as Moscow at purveying propaganda online, but they’re no slouches.
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Why US Officials Are Revealing More about Cyber Ops
It’s part of a “costly signaling” gambit. Will it deter America’s enemies?
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What's Next for Iran's Cyber Actors?
The country has grown as a talented, and destructive, network threat over the last several years.
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Best of 2019: Defense One Radio
Review the year that was — and consider what's next — with episodes from our award-winning podcast.
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Russia Plans to Cut Off Some Internet Access Next Week
The Dec. 23 test aims to evaluate a system meant to control traffic, veil hackers, and quash dissent.
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The Defense Digital Service Opens a Georgia Satellite Office
Located near the Army's Fort Gordon and its Cyber Command, "Tatooine" is the service's first facility outside Washington, D.C.
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Is US Deterrence Against Iran Doomed to Fail?
A key ingredient may be missing. And we won’t know until Tehran launches another attack.
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Russian Trolls Are Hammering Away at NATO’s Presence in Lithuania
A broad disinformation campaign of fake news and other tricks aims to turn the Baltic nation’s public against the alliance.
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NATO Should Count Spending on Secure 5G Towards Its 2% Goals
Getting internet security right is key to the alliance’s very future.
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