The head of the U.S. National Security Agency’s cybersecurity division said that the Chinese-owned application TikTok is China’s “trojan horse” and poses a long-term security threat to Americans, according to Bloomberg. Instead of only looking at the direct threat of TikTok’s manipulated content, Rob Joyce said that the U.S. government should monitor TikTok’s China-based parent…
US Investigated Threat Posed by Chinese Regime Infiltration of Canada: Intelligence Professional
March 20, 2023
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The infiltration of Canada by the Chinese Communist Party was so serious that the U.S. government launched an investigation into the matter, says an intelligence professional and author of a new book on the topic. And that was 25 years ago, with the situation reportedly getting progressively worse over time. Scott McGregor’s new book on…
SCOTUS Denies Challenge to Federal Surveillance Program
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has refused to hear a challenge to a federal surveillance program. The program in question, known as “Upstream,” allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept telephone and Internet traffic from within and outside the United States. The details of the program were among those leaked by former…
Supreme Court Denies Challenge to Federal Surveillance Program
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has refused to hear a challenge to a federal surveillance program. The program in question, known as “Upstream,” allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept telephone and Internet traffic from within and outside the United States. The details of the program were among those leaked by former…
Will Jordan’s Subcommittee Be Able to Achieve What the ‘Church Committee’ Could Not?
Commentary Important and laudable as it was at the time (1975), we must conclude that the Senate’s vaunted “Church Committee,” under Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), ultimately failed in its mission to reform the CIA, FBI, IRS, and the National Security Agency (NSA) anywhere near permanently. Now, 48 years later, we are in a similar, arguably worse,…
Former NSA Worker Accused of Trying to ‘Sell Secrets to Russia’ to Remain in Custody
A former National Security Agency (NSA) employee accused of espionage after allegedly attempting to sell classified National Defense Information (NDI) to a representative of a foreign government must remain jailed while he’s prosecuted, a magistrate judge ruled on Oct. 11. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, a 30-year-old Colorado Springs resident, was taken into custody based on a signed…
NSA Says ‘No Backdoors’ in New Quantum Resistant Encryption Scheme
The next generation of encryption standards being developed out of the United States will be impenetrable, even by the country’s top code crackers, and resistant to quantum computers, according to NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce. “There are no backdoors,” Joyce told Bloomberg May 13, referring to hidden flaws that enable hackers to break encryption. The development…
Oversight Watchdog Wants to Know Why Two Intelligence Community IGs Were Overpaid
Presidentially appointed inspectors-general (IG) at two key intelligence community agencies were collectively overpaid more than $168,000 between 2016 and 2020, but it is unclear if any corrective action has been taken, according to a Department of Defense (DOD) memo obtained by a non-profit government watchdog. Information about the overpayments is contained in a Jan. 25,…
U.S. Court Upholds Dismissal of Lawsuit Against NSA on ‘State Secrets’ Grounds
A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, that challenged the National Security Agency’s mass interception and searching of Americans’ international internet communications. In a divided ruling on Wednesday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the lawsuit must be dismissed after…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Wins $2 Billion Computing Service Deal With NSA
September 1, 2021
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on Wednesday said it won a 10-year, $2 billion contract to supply high-performance computing systems to the National Security Agency (NSA). The systems will be used for artificial intelligence computing, the company said. The system will be housed in a data center owned by QTS Realty Trust Inc. Under the contract,…
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