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EXPERT OPINION — More than 200 U.S. officers have been hunted around the globe and targeted by an adversary using a mysterious weapon that causes […] More
Chris Inglis’ new White House office has a startup feel to it. There are desks, a few chairs, a coffee maker and a poster hanging […] More
Corin Stone, Washington College of Law Corin Stone is a Scholar-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law. Stone is on leave from the […] More
Cipher Brief Expert Tim Willasey-Wilsey is a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a former senior British diplomat. From 1996 to 1999 he was […] More
Mark Kelton, Former Deputy Director, CIA’s Counterintelligence, National Clandestine Service Cipher Brief Expert Mark Kelton is a retired senior Central Intelligence Agency executive with 34 […] More
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MORE CRUMBS FROM THE PEANUT BUTTER SUB SANDWICH: This week, some additional delicious morsels emerged about allegations that civilian Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his wife Diana’s attempted to serve up submarine secrets to some foreign nation. The couple pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and will be tried separately. Ms. Toebbe’s lawyers threw her husband under the bus, saying in court that Jonathan’s tradecraft was terrible. Crackerjack writer Fred Kaplan, in Slate, tried to ferret out what nation might have been on the receiving end of the reported tradecraft using a half peanut butter sandwich with a surprise inside (restricted data about U.S. nuclear powered subs.) Kaplan noted, as The Dead Drop did last week, that the intended receiving country appeared to have been cooperating [...]
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PRIVATE SECTOR EXPERT VIEW — Over the last eight years, the volume of successful ransomware attacks has reached pandemic levels. The U.S. Cyber Executive Order [...] More
OPINION — If cyber threats had a most wanted list, ransomware would be well within the top five, and headlines from the past few years [...] More
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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE – The on-going bloody terrorist violence against Shia mosques in Afghan cities like Kunduz, Kandahar, and elsewhere have highlighted the murky issue of [...] More
OPINION – Taiwan today, appears to be the newest test for a potential American military intervention. “The CCP’s [Chinese Communist Party] ultimate objective isn’t invasion, [...] More
