Amy Zegart on Spycraft in the Internet Age
February 8 2022Amy Zegart has a new book: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Wired has an excerpt:
In short, data volume and accessibility are...
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Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
January 13 2022Remember when the US and Australian police surreptitiously owned and operated the encrypted cell phone app ANOM? They arrested 800 people in 2021 based on that operation.
New documents...
Read moreNation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks
October 22 2021Someone has been hacking telecommunications networks around the world:
- LightBasin (aka UNC1945) is an activity cluster that has been consistently targeting the telecommunications sector at a global scale since... Read more
Tetris: Chinese Espionage Tool
August 18 2021I’m starting to see writings about a Chinese espionage tool that exploits website vulnerabilities to try and identify Chinese dissidents.
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In January, we learned about a Chinese espionage campaign that exploited four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange. One of the characteristics of the campaign, in the later days...
Read moreRussia’s SolarWinds Attack
December 28 2020
Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. It wasn’t a cyberattack in international...
Read moreHow China Uses Stolen US Personnel Data
December 24 2020
Interesting analysis of China’s efforts to identify US spies:
By about 2010, two former CIA officials recalled, the Chinese security services had instituted a sophisticated travel intelligence program, developing...
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Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG
October 6 2020
Previously I have written about the Swedish-owned Swiss-based cryptographic hardware company: Crypto AG. It was a CIA-owned Cold War operation for decades. Today it is called
On Executive Order 12333
September 28 2020
Mark Jaycox has written a long article on the US Executive Order 12333: “No Oversight, No Limits, No Worries: A Primer on Presidential Spying and Executive Order 12,333“:
Abstract:...
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