Science & Tech
NSA Trying to Track Your Smartphone Finger Strokes
Smartphone technology built by Lockheed Martin promises to verify a user's identity based on the swiftness and shape of the individual’s finger strokes on a touch screen.
Science & Tech
The Pentagon Is Rethinking a $475 Million Cyber Defense Proposal
Nearly a week after extending the terms of its original proposal, U.S. Cyber Command revoked a 5-year contract offer that aimed to backfill significant staffing shortages.
Business
CIA Ends Its Climate Research Program
Just days after the president said climate change was an 'indisputable' national security threat, the intelligence community ends its satellite data-sharing program with scientists.
Science & Tech
Special Operators Are Using Rapid DNA Readers
Conducting a midnight SEAL raid on a terrorist compound? Positive DNA identification is just 90 minutes away.
Policy
NSA Domestic Spying Will Start Stopping This Week
Lawmakers only have until Friday—not June 1—to resolve their standoff over the NSA's domestic surveillance, according to a new memo from the Obama administration.
Threats
Is US Foreign Policy Ignoring Homegrown Terrorists?
U.S. intelligence officials say the most likely terror threats facing American citizens come from 'home-grown' extremists. So why is it largely absent from debate in Washington?
Science & Tech
The Navy’s New Binoculars Can Identify You From 700 Feet Away
Collecting on-the-ground intelligence may have become a bit safer.
Policy
NSA Spying Heads to Critical Senate Showdown
After the House voted to end bulk collection of phone data, Sen. Mitch McConnell promised to force a vote next week to reauthorize it.
Science & Tech
What the End of Bulk Metadata Collection Would Mean for Intelligence Collection
Americans may not trust spies with their data. Will they trust spy machines?
Policy
Sen. Corker: NSA Should Do Far More with Your Phone Data
The NSA's bulk-data collection program is so scaled down that it's not nearly as effective as it should be, the Senate Foreign Relations chairman says.
Science & Tech
China Warns Its Soldiers: Wearable Tech Could Leak Secrets
The Chinese military said fitness trackers and watches could send private and strategic data to hackers who've gained access to the vulnerable devices.
Policy
While Ruling NSA Program Illegal, Appeals Court Suggests Path Forward
A recent federal appeals court ruling on the NSA's domestic surveillance program seems to be sending the political branches constitutional messages about how to proceed next.
Policy
Republicans Come Out In Force To Keep NSA's Domestic Surveillance Alive
Sen. Mitch McConnell and his fellow GOP security hawks are working hard to keep the spy agency’s phone dragnet. But they’re making some dubious claims in its defense.
Policy
Federal Appeals Court Rules NSA Spying Illegal
The phone data collection program 'exceeds the scope of what Congress has authorized,' a federal judge ruled Thursday in New York.
Business
Number of Security Clearance Holders Drops 12 Percent
Federal agencies have trimmed the ranks of employees and contractors with access to classified information.
Threats
Warren Weinstein's Death Should Help End US 'Signature' Drone Strikes
The civilian casualties from this botched operation lay bare the immense cost of failure.
Policy
Rand Paul Is Suddenly Quiet About Ending the NSA's Domestic Surveillance
Sen. Rand Paul hates the Patriot Act and NSA mass surveillance, but remains tight-lipped about majority leader Mitch McConnell's plan to keep both alive.
Ideas
The United States Needs a Drone Board
If we’re going to keep killing citizens by drone, we need a better form of due process for it.
Threats
White House: Three Americans Killed in Counterterrorism Operations
Administration officials said Thursday that one American hostage and two American al-Qaida operatives were killed during U.S. military operations.
Policy