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President Biden signs memo to help improve military cybersecurity
Whether this will lead to meaningful upgrades isn't clear.
Microsoft protests Amazon's $10 billion government cloud computing contract
Microsoft believes that its product was superior and should have won.
Senate appoints former NSA official as head of US cybersecurity agency
Jen Easterly will lead CISA at a time when ransomware attacks are on the rise.
US releases NSA leaker Reality Winner into supervised custody
Her family is pressing President Joe Biden for a full pardon.
The Pentagon is tracking US citizens without a warrant, Senator says
The Department of Defense may be sidestepping laws by purchasing commercial data.
'United States vs. Reality Winner' is sympathetic, but not essential
It's an informative whistleblower portrait that could be so much more.
US intelligence agencies say Russia was likely behind the SolarWinds hack
But some say this disclosure has come several weeks too late.
SolarWinds hack may have been much wider than first thought
Early warning systems appear to have failed.
Trump administration proposes splitting Cyber Command from the NSA
Whether or not the division is ready for a split is another matter.
Microsoft confirms it found compromised SolarWinds code in its systems
Microsoft says it has not found evidence hackers breached customer data or used its systems to attack others.
Judge rules FBI, NSA broke the law and court orders with data collection
He still accepted new rules for data collection, however.
The NSA tells military personnel to avoid using location services
The agency provided a list of recommendations.
NSA says Russian hackers are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research
The US, UK and Canada claim Cozy Bear has targeted health care organizations.
Hitting the Books: The media's role in history's most damaging data dump
The Snowden leak was amongst the largest ever committed.
NYT: $100 million US phone surveillance program produced two unique leads
The USA Freedom Act is up for renewal next month.
Bipartisan bill would scale back key section of the Patriot Act
While it wouldn’t repeal Section 215 wholly, it would put new limits on it.
Brazil charges journalist Glenn Greenwald for colluding with hackers
The charges come after The Intercept published damaging information on Brazilian public officials.
Microsoft is patching a major Windows 10 flaw discovered by the NSA (updated)
For a change, the NSA disclosed the vulnerability rather than exploiting it.
Court says data swept up by the NSA is protected by the Fourth Amendment
Judges found the incidental collection through PRISM to be legal, but querying that data might not be.
