national security

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Privacy and digital rights advocates largely prefer the approach of building a travel device from scratch, but they caution that ...

Florida Man Enters the Encryption Wars
Just three months into the Trump administration’s promised crackdown on immigration to the United States, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement now ...

ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
“No other vendor could meet these timeframes of having the infrastructure in place to meet this urgent requirement and deliver ...

Here’s What Happened to Those SignalGate Messages
The US Treasury Department was initially alone in providing the court a timeline of the messages that it was able ...

A Cybersecurity Professor Disappeared Amid an FBI Search. His Family Is ‘Determined to Fight’
The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) ...

Gamaredon: The Turncoat Spies Relentlessly Hacking Ukraine
Russian state hackers, perhaps more than those of any other nation, tend to show off. The notorious Sandworm unit within ...

CyberAv3ngers: The Iranian Saboteurs Hacking Water and Gas Systems Worldwide
Around the same time, CyberAv3ngers also posted on Telegram that it had hacked into the digital systems of more than ...

Brass Typhoon: The Chinese Hacking Group Lurking in the Shadows
As China continues its digital gambit around the world, researchers are warning that hacking activity from long-tracked groups is evolving ...

NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree
Speaking aboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump confirmed the NSC dismissals and acknowledged Loomer’s role in advising him. “She ...