Cybersecurity
Sessions pushes back on proposed House surveillance reform
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Senate panel that the administration is open to FISA reform, but doesn't want to saddle the FBI with a warrant requirement.
Digital Government
A New Social-Media Simulator Is Helping US Troops Train for Hybrid War
The program harvests and remixes real tweets to generate a convincing online environment for wargames large and small.
Cybersecurity
House panel looks to curtail spy powers
Draft legislation before the House Intelligence committee puts new restrictions on the use surveillance powers to target Americans, but privacy advocates are looking for more reforms.
Cybersecurity
How cyber impacts the full spectrum of terror threats
Cybersecurity still ranks near the top of threats that worry the nation's security agencies.
Cybersecurity
What Cybercom's independence means
Is the next step for Cybercom as a unified combatant command to split off from the National Security Agency?
Digital Government
Ignore the Haters, Federal Social Media Gurus Say
Humor continues to be a key element of the CIA's social strategy.
Cybersecurity
Spy chiefs set sights on AI and cyber
Harnessing data and disruptive technology, such as artificial intelligence, to detect and thwart cyber threats is the IC’s top challenge.
Cybersecurity
Yet another deadline: Congress faces 702 reauthorization
Amid a busy fall schedule, Congress must find time to reauthorize a key spying program, says the top Democrat on the House intelligence panel.
Cybersecurity
Senate bill bans joint cyber initiative with Russia
The intelligence authorization bill also mandates a governmentwide plan to combat election hacking and makes changes to personnel policy for cyber professionals.
Cybersecurity
Trump names top IC CIO
CIA open source leader John Sherman has been tapped to serve as CIO of the intelligence community.
Cybersecurity
Unclassified ICITE on the horizon
The intelligence community's cloud-based computing platform is moving into more broadly accessible realms, according to the ODNI's top tech official.
Cybersecurity
IARPA looks to hand-held genetic testing
IARPA wants help developing next-generation genetic sequencing technology that it can use in hand-held devices.
Cybersecurity
Can the U.S. stop malware and buy it at the same time?
The U.S. government walks a fine line of prosecuting alleged hackers and buying malware and other software vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity
GAO: Keeping NSA and CYBERCOM Together Makes Hacking Tool Leaks More Likely
The release of high-value NSA hacking tools in recent month sparked widespread concern about how securely those tools are stored.
Cybersecurity
Wyden presses spy chief on surveillance powers
Sen. Ron Wyden wants the Trump administration to publicly state whether the FISA law applies to communications that are "entirely domestic."
Acquisition
Kaspersky axed from governmentwide contracts
Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab has been taken off key government contract vehicles NASA SEWP and GSA Schedule 70 as part of an overall move to address possible risks posed by the firm.
Cybersecurity
IARPA seeks tech to ID bioengineered life forms
A new bio-detection tech development effort by the intelligence community takes a page from science fiction.
Cybersecurity
Trump taps Gordon to be principal deputy in ODNI
Current NGA Deputy Director Susan Gordon is a career intelligence official who helped create In-Q-Tel and has been a key driver of ICITE.
Cybersecurity
Officials press Congress to reauthorize spy powers
The Trump administration is asking Congress to reauthorize a critical foreign surveillance program without any amendments and to eliminate the sunset clause.
Cybersecurity