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North Korea, ISIS, and cyber warfare – intelligence chief outlines the biggest threats facing the US – Business Insider

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North Korea, ISIS, and cyber warfare – intelligence chief outlines the biggest threats facing the US
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Moscow "is assuming a more assertive cyber posture" that is based on its willingness to target critical infrastructure and carry out espionage operations even when those operations have been detected and under increased public scrutiny, Clapper said.
Senior U.S. intelligence officials say a small but determined group of violent extremists will try to overcome the …Daily Journal
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The FTC’s next chief technologist is on a quest for better passwords

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Privacy issues will likely stay at the forefront of the FTC’s focus next year thanks to the commission’s appointment of Lorrie Cranor as its new chief technologist.

Cranor, who is currently a professor of computer science and engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. She will succeed Ashkan Soltani, the privacy expert who assumed the role in November 2014, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday.

Cranor will join the FTC in January.

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US Counterintelligence Chief Not Convinced China Has Halted Espionage – TIME

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US Counterintelligence Chief Not Convinced China Has Halted Espionage
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China has not backed up its recent pledge to curb spying on the U.S. with concrete action, according to Washington's counterintelligence chief. The two countries agreed not to knowingly use hacking for commercial purposes during Chinese President Xi …
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Former NSA chief undercuts FBI’s desire for encryption backdoors

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The former head of the NSA says the U.S. is better served by strong encryption than it would be by encryption schemes with backdoors that allow law enforcement to decrypt the content of communications, according to reports, and he should know.

Under Michael Hayden’s watch as director of the NSA, the agency exploited back doors into phone switches in Greece in order to spy on calls including those made by the Greek prime minister and the mayor of Athens.

The legal-intercept capabilities baked into the switches are supposed to be used only under strict legal supervision, but they can be abused. According to a story by James Bamford for The Intercept, documents stolen by Edward Snowden help show that the NSA took unauthorized advantage of legal-intercept backdoors in the Greek phone system to eavesdrop on what calling parties assumed would be private communications.

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