Andrew Bailey, chair of the Financial Stability Board, called on financial institutions and technology providers to “prepare for more severe scenarios involving simultaneous disruption across multiple firms or shared technology dependencies.”
The National Security Agency will welcome back to campus potentially hundreds of former members of the elite group known as Tailored Access Operations (TAO) to celebrate the division’s recent rebranding.
The legislation would mandate that high-risk social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook take “reasonable steps” to ensure users are over age 16 by using tools like facial age estimation, digital ID services, formal IDs and existing account information for verification.
Kerianne Tobitsch, who most recently served as a senior lawyer at the Homeland Security Department, is the NSA's new general counsel, sources told Recorded Future News.
As Chief of Defence Intelligence, General Sir Jim Hockenhull decided to declassify and publish what London knew of Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine, down to a map of the routes its forces would take.
The designation, announced last week, came a day after Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) charged Durov with aiding terrorist activity and said it would seek to place him on an international wanted list. The agency accused Telegram of failing to remove channels and bots allegedly used by Ukrainian intelligence, as well as terrorist and extremist groups.
A party-line vote in the Senate installed Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence, a job that has drawn increasing scrutiny during Donald Trump's second term as president.
The website was hacked on Saturday, when its homepage was replaced with a message displaying a cryptocurrency wallet address and threatening to publish unspecified information about President William Ruto unless the ransom was paid.
Yevhenii Khmara, a major general with deep experience in intelligence, counterterrorism and long-range strikes against Russia, is Ukraine's new acting defense minister.
Senators pressed director of national intelligence nominee Jay Clayton about his stance on the 2020 election and previous statements about voter fraud. Other issues took a back seat.
NSA last week changed the moniker of its Office of Computer Network Operations (CNO) back to Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a name that is sure to elicit nostalgia among the broader digital community for a group with roots in the early 1990s.
The use of the spyware came to light in 2022, with traces of Predator found on dozens of phones. The scandal led to the resignation of Greece’s intelligence service chief and the prime minister’s chief of staff.
Liz Kendall, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, said she was “absolutely appalled” at the findings of “sexual harassment and bullying” made by an independent investigation at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
In a Tuesday letter, Max Schrems, the founder of the Vienna-based privacy advocacy organization noyb, told European officials he plans to sue to invalidate the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) that allows for the transfer of personal data from the EU to U.S. companies.
Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assumed hands-on responsibility for overseeing the spending plans of intelligence agencies following the recent departure of Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a senior intelligence official who simultaneously served in multiple roles, including one at OMB.
Once a new CISA director is in place, the agency will ramp up hiring efforts, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told lawmakers. The White House has not yet announced a nominee.