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Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
BALTIMORE — A troubled former National Security Agency contractor who spent two decades stuffing his home, car and garden shed with highly classified documents was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison in a case that exposed a shocking laxity in security at the NSA and other secret government facilities.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
BALTIMORE — In a case that exposed the government’s embarrassing failure to secure its secrets, a 54-year-old former National Security Agency contractor pleaded guilty Thursday to taking secret documents home in a deal likely to put him in prison for nine years.
Kenya The New York Times world
16 Aug 2024
Reid Hoffman, the tech billionaire whose money was spent on Russian-style social media deception in a Senate race last year, apologized Wednesday, saying in a statement that he had not approved the operation and did not support such tactics in U.S. politics.
LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race
Kenya The New York Times world
16 Aug 2024
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday released two new reports it commissioned about the Russian campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms during the 2016 election and beyond. The reports, by teams led by experts at the cybersecurity company New Knowledge and Oxford University, fill out a portrait of the impressive operations by the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Five Takeaways From New Reports on Russia's Social Media Operations
Kenya The New York Times world
16 Aug 2024
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday released two new reports it commissioned about the Russian campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms during the 2016 election and beyond. The reports, by teams led by experts at the cybersecurity company New Knowledge and Oxford University, fill out a portrait of the impressive operations by the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Five Takeaways From New Reports on Russia's Social Media Operations
Kenya The New York Times world
16 Aug 2024
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday released two new reports it commissioned about the Russian campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms during the 2016 election and beyond. The reports, by teams led by experts at the cybersecurity company New Knowledge and Oxford University, fill out a portrait of the impressive operations by the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Five Takeaways From New Reports on Russia's Social Media Operations
Kenya The New York Times world
16 Aug 2024
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday released two new reports it commissioned about the Russian campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms during the 2016 election and beyond. The reports, by teams led by experts at the cybersecurity company New Knowledge and Oxford University, fill out a portrait of the impressive operations by the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Five Takeaways From New Reports on Russia's Social Media Operations
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
7 May 2019
(Exhibition Review): WASHINGTON — The intelligence craft in American history and culture is a decidedly mixed bag. It has served up intrigue, genius and heroism, clever undercover operations and brain-boggling gadgetry, making it a linchpin of popular entertainment. Yet the spy trade also has a darker strain: Prone to epic failures and frequently in ethical trouble, the agencies have been embroiled in recent years in scandals involving brutal torture and secret surveillance.
At a New Museum, Cloaks and Daggers Galore
Kenya The New York Times world
29 Mar 2019
BALTIMORE — In a case that exposed the government’s embarrassing failure to secure its secrets, a 54-year-old former National Security Agency contractor pleaded guilty Thursday to taking classified documents home in a deal likely to put him in prison for nine years.
NSA contractor arrested in biggest breach of U.S. secrets pleads guilty