Technologies Developed for Warfare, Spy Agencies Going on Market
Is this ever going to end? The daily barrage of hacking news assaulting us in headlines is making us numb, if not scared to death. […] More
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NSA Curtails Collection Under FISA Provision
Ever wonder whether the National Security Agency picked up your text message or email because you mentioned ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi to a […] More
The NSA’s Smart Play to Install a Greater Margin of Safety
The National Security Agency recently announced changes to its intelligence collection practices under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The Cipher Brief […] More
Stopping the NSA’s “About” Collection Is Not Sufficient
The NSA recently said it would stop collecting signals intelligence solely “about” foreign targets by tapping the backbone of the internet resident within the United […] More
Cipher Brief Expert View: Changing NSA’s Email Collection Program
The National Security Agency (NSA) announced on Friday a change in its intelligence collection under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA). […] More
The Problem of Siloed Cyber Warriors
The isolation of cyber as an entirely independent domain of warfare is both inaccurate and dangerous. Today, the Pentagon faces an essential task, to integrate […] More
It Takes a Team to Stop the Bleeding from Insider Threats
The top counterintelligence priorities of the United States government are insider threats, protecting critical infrastructure, and supply chain security, according to National Counterintelligence Executive Bill […] More
“Unmasking” U.S. Citizens Found in NSA Intercepts
The process of “unmasking,” or revealing the true identities of U.S. persons who unexpectedly figure into conversations picked up by National Security Agency (NSA) foreign […] More
Next Steps for U.S. Cyber Command after Split with NSA
We all know it’s coming, and soon. There is significant momentum for elevating U.S. Cyber Command to a full combatant command. We should expect that […] More
Comey Confirms Trump-Russia Probe, Knocks Down Wiretap
FBI Director James Comey confirmed on Monday, for the first time, that the agency is conducting an investigation into whether there was any coordination between […] More
Keeping Cyber Command and NSA Integrated Operationally
There as been discussion of a separation between the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command for a while, only for the change in administrations […] More
Disentangling the NSA and Cyber Command
In 2013, former President Barack Obama was close to ending the “dual-hat” leadership of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, only to […] More
Insider Threat Special Report: Edward Snowden’s Access to Secrets
Among the least understood and considered elements of the Edward Snowden saga are the details around what his job was and what data he could […] More
Insider Threat Special Report: Contracting at the NSA
Steven Bay was a contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton for nine years. He was working on an NSA contract in Hawaii when he hired Edward […] More
An Exclusive, Personal Chat with Edward Snowden’s Former Boss
Steven Bay has held his secrets and his struggles close for nearly four years now. Bay was Edward Snowden’s boss in June of 2013 when […] More
Pushing Back on Snowden: A Review of "How America Lost Its Secrets"
Edward Epstein began his career as an investigative journalist while he was still a graduate student at Cornell more than a half century ago, taking […] More
Deterring Moscow’s Cyber Threat
Let’s agree on one thing, when it comes to Russia’s recent interference with the U.S. presidential election, no one yet has found a way to […] More
The Evolving Role of the National Security Agency
President-elect Donald Trump was briefed Friday on the findings of the intelligence community that Russia was behind hacks of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary […] More