Homeland & Cybersecurity
The latest coverage of the Department of Homeland Security and cyber threats around the globe.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ordered a temporary blockade of the Trump administration’s decision to prevent TikTok from being distributed via app stores operated by Apple and Google.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday suggested that Russia and the U.S. sign a pact promising to not interfere in each other’s elections.
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China is engaged in massive data mining in the United States and likely has stolen personal information on nearly half of the entire U.S. population, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional hearing last week.
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President Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats wants Congress to create a bipartisan commission to oversee the upcoming U.S. election as fears mount that an international actor could again interfere in the high-stakes race.
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The Department of Commerce said Friday that it would start banning U.S. transactions with TikTok and WeChat beginning on Sunday.
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Mr. Trump suggested in both posts that voting by mail is unreliable. Facebook applied identical labels to each one assuring users otherwise and linking to a page containing further information.
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The Fairfax County Public Schools system confirmed Monday that its data has fallen victim to a ransomware attack amid reports that it also was experiencing technical difficulties with online-only instruction.
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Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said Monday the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States will begin this week reviewing a proposal for Oracle to acquire the Chinese-owned video app TikTok.
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The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as its preferred suitor to buy the popular video-sharing app, according to a source familiar with the deal.
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Cyberattackers from China, Russia and Iran have targeted the presidential campaigns of President Trump and Democratic rival Joseph R. Biden, Microsoft said Thursday.
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Homeland Security officials altered intelligence reports about border security, White supremacy and Russian interference in the U.S., a senior department official claims in a new whistleblower complaint released Wednesday by congressional Democrats.
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By Frank Bajak - Associated Press
Not all that long ago, managing your home network’s security didn’t involve much more than installing an antivirus program on your PC. If only it were still so simple.
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Facebook removed pages associated with right-wing group Patriot Prayer on Friday after finding they violated the platform’s rules against dangerous individuals and organizations.
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The National Security Agency program that amassed the phone records of millions of Americans was called illegal and possibly unconstitutional by a federal appeals court Wednesday.
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Facebook on Thursday said it won’t accept new political ads the week before the November election and will clearly label content that seeks to “delegitimize” the election’s outcome.
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Facebook’s new terms of service set to take effect next month will give the company greater cover to justify its content enforcement decisions.
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House Democrats are preparing their proposals to overhaul antitrust laws so that lawmakers can easily dismantle Big Tech companies, namely Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
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Voter information for millions of Americans is being offered for free on a Russian hacking website, the Moscow-based business newspaper Kommersant reported Tuesday.
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Facebook has started blocking users from searching its social network for mentions of Kyle Rittenhouse, a teen facing homicide charges over a deadly shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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By Zen Soo - Associated Press
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigned Thursday amid U.S. pressure for its Chinese owner to sell the popular video app, which the White House says is a security risk.
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Kajla, a 5-year-old Vizsla who works as an explosives detection dog screening passengers at a Hawaii airport, has been named TSA’s cutest canine for 2020.
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Behdad Esfahbod, a former Facebook employee who was imprisoned by the Iranian regime, said he was forced to agree to spy on westerners for Iran to secure his release.
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President Trump said Tuesday that he will nominate acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to the permanent post leading the agency.
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TikTok said Monday it will sue the Trump administration in federal court to fight President Trump’s attempted ban of the Chinese-owned social media app.
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The U.S. Federal Election Commission was asked Thursday to investigate if Facebook and Twitter can legally ban Republican congressional nominee Laura Loomer from their services.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said he believes that TikTok will stop sharing the information of U.S. users with the Chinese government after a dispute regarding the ownership of the hugely popular Chinese-owned app is resolved.
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The FBI is sounding the alarm that Washington, D.C.-area think tanks are new targets of foreign adversaries looking to monitor their work and their interaction with the U.S. government, The Washington Times has learned.
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Facebook has imposed new rules to limit the reach of political groups that disguise their content as coming from local newsrooms, a crackdown that hits political ads from both the left and the right but in particular targets a big liberal advocacy group.
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Big Tech has largely settled on a single explanation to excuse its invasions of users’ privacy: Technical errors.
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Facebook pages dedicated to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory have recently swelled in size amid uncertainties about their future on the social network, a report said Tuesday.
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The intelligence community once considered investing in Twitter but ultimately decided not to and has since built up an investment portfolio of companies that analyze social media.
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TikTok threatened legal action Friday in light of President Trump issuing an executive order creating uncertainties about the future of the popular Chinese-owned social media app.
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Facebook and Instagram accounts touting President Trump were taken down after being traced to a Romanian-based network recently purged from the platforms, Facebook said Thursday.
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President Trump issued executive orders Thursday night banning the Chinese applications TikTok and WeChat, saying they pose a threat to U.S. national security.
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TikTok is on the path to be prohibited on all devices issued by the U.S. government following passage Thursday of a Senate bill proposed months before President Trump threatened to ban the app.
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YouTube detected an uptick in China-linked “coordinated influence operations” and tore down more than 2,500 video channels in 2020’s second quarter.
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Cybersecurity professionals are warning that hackers can upend the November elections.
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Amid an onslaught of lawsuits alleging it has spied on its users, Google is facing new scrutiny about whether it uses the private data it collects to best its competitors and could be hit with more litigation.
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Foreign nationals from countries such as China and Iran were granted security clearances by the U.S. government agency in charge of broadcasting, jeopardizing national security, according to officials and internal documents from the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
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President Trump said Monday he’s given the go-ahead for Microsoft to pursue the purchase of the TikTok, saying he would shut down the popular Chinese-owned video app by Sept. 15 if a sale isn’t completed by then.
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Social media apps on your phone have spied on you, the government and on competitor applications, though Big Tech insists the snooping is inadvertent or an innocent mistake.
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Chinese-controlled social media apps like TikTok are feeding information directly to the Chinese Communist Party and their national security apparatus, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday on Fox News Channel.
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