National cyber director position, which Congress mandated in a defense bill last year, remains unfilled two months into Biden's admin due to political turf wars
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Senate Intelligence Committee concludes Putin ordered the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party accounts and the release of emails to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign
it's a clarion warning call for the upcoming election. https://twitter.com/... Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance : GOP Senators signed off on the report's conclusion Trump discussed Wikileaks' release of...
President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States
and people are blaming Sarah Cooper, who may have hurt his feelings Joshua Keating / Slate : TikTok Could Have Been China's Nintendo Kaya Yurieff / CNN : ‘Everyone is going cray cray’: TikTok users fr...
DOJ charges Russian national involved in “Project Lakhta”, an alleged foreign influence operation to interfere in US midterms by pushing misinformation online
Facebook's ‘War Room’ Is a Marketing Ploy Shaun Nichols / The Register : Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more Washington Post : McCain's...
Trump campaign's Rick Gates sought proposals in 2016 from Israeli firm Psy-Group to make fake online accounts and use social media to influence and win election
WASHINGTON — A top Trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities … Tweets: @natashabertrand , @adamgoldmannyt , @amyfiscus , @repadamschi...
State Department has spent $0 of the $120M allocated by Congress since late-2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy
WASHINGTON — As Russia's virtual war against the United States continues unabated with the midterm elections approaching … Tweets: @amy_siskind , @govhowarddean , @natashabertrand , @wjcarter , and @d...
Sources: hackers stole NSA data on US offensive and defensive cyber capabilities from a contractor's laptop in 2015, likely via Kaspersky software
This Time with Kaspersky's Help Associated Press : Report: Russian hackers target secrets taken by NSA worker Steven Musil / CNET : Russian hackers reportedly stole NSA cyber secrets in 2015 Gareth Ha...
Analysis of six Russia-linked Facebook pages, including Blacktivists and Secured Borders, shows ~19M interactions with users
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider :
A deep look at Heart of Texas, a Russia-linked Facebook group that promoted Texas secession and had 225K+ members before being taken down in summer of 2017
Russians— are spreading anti-immigrant propaganda online. http://www.nytimes.com/... Casey Michel / @cjcmichel : And these “Texas secession” rallies were, in toto, larger than the Idaho Falls turnout....
Sources: US election hacking was more extensive than previously known, including theft of voter records and at least one successful alteration of voter data
The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least … Tweets: @kylegriffin1 , @akarl_smith , and @natashabertrand Tweets: Kyle Gri...