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Business leaders and former u.s. government officials have a stark warning about the threat of cyber attacks. weve already seen and felt the impact of several high profile hacks in 2020, when russian hackers breached u.s. federal agencies and attack and compromised as many as 14 technology firms. here in the u.s. southeast, there were long lines at gas stations when a ransomware attack shut down colonial pipeline, and more recently facebook says it exposed a vast network of surveillance for hire...

Companies like nso specifically, but the global marketplace, the hacking tools being sold to autocrat after autocrat and fuelling in many ways a lot of regimes oppression.— ways a lot of regimes o- ression. ., , oppression. on a broader scale, this might _ oppression. on a broader scale, this might be — oppression. on a broader scale, this might be the _ oppression. on a broader scale, this might be the way _ oppression. on a broader scale, this might be the way to - oppression. on a broader...

This is a interesting sign from the biden administration that they are really concerned, not only about companies like nso specifically, but about the global marketplace for mercenary spyware, so mercenary hacking tools being sold to autocrat after autocrat and fueling, in many ways, a lot of dictatorial regimes repression. but this decision to what president biden has done basically stops american companies from exporting their goods and services to the ns0 group. thats right, there are two imp...

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to continue holding votes...

US authorities unveiled long-delayed new rules aimed at clamping down on export to nations like Russia and China of hacking technology amid a sharp uptick in cyberattacks globally.

More information is surfacing on the source of the NSA's hacking tools discovered and published by the Shadow Brokers. Just as Ed...

This report is explosive, and just before we even get into the details, how did the trump administration, according to your reporting, go from donald trump being "i love wikileaks" which is what he said in the 2016 campaign trail to discussing kidnapping or even killing him? >> excellent question. what happened was even after the 2016 election in which youre right, then candidate donald trump embraced wikileaks, but once he came into office, the cia was confronted with what it viewed as the larg...

Of assassinating him. as we report, some of these rather extreme measures raised all sorts of concerns inside the donald trump white house that one big problem would be a reduction plan was that at the time, julian assange was not even under indictment in the united states as of this is 2017.— states as of this is 2017. before they worried — states as of this is 2017. before they worried about? _ states as of this is 2017. before they worried about? he - states as of this is 2017. before the...

Got a lot of attention after the 2016 election when it was revealed, you know, their role in getting emails that were hacked by russian intelligence and then were being published by wikileaks to damage the hillary clinton campaign. although that was viewed as quite serious and alarming by many top officials in the then-obama administration, mike pompeo, when he comes in as cia director, was not all that alarmed about what the russians had done in using wikileaks during 2016. but then, early in h...

At the forefront of the biden administrations minds will be the hacking on democratic national committee and clinton campaign emails, during the height of the 2016 race, which the party belives helped tip the balance in donald trumps favour. last december the us treasury confirmed it and another department had been breached, through use of compromised software, solarwinds orion. after mr biden took office, a ransomware attack of the colonial pipeline created fuel shortages across the east coast,...