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The US Navy Has Run Out of Pants
The United States Defense Department has ideas about a dramatic strategy for defending Taiwan against a Chinese military offensive that…
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Leveling Up
A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
An endless parade of data breaches, brutally disruptive ransomware attacks, and crippling IT outages has somehow become the norm around…
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Hamstrung
How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk
If anything, the military has impinged on CISA’s territory—not the other way around—out of exasperation with the civilian agency’s constrained…
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Politics / Global Elections
Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases
Databases containing sensitive voter information from multiple counties in Illinois were openly accessible on the internet, revealing 4.6 million records…
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Dirty Jobs
He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists
Listing the Atomwaffen Division and the Order of Nine Angles as a lasting influence, Butcher also disclosed the nature of…
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Future Investment
Europe Is Pumping Billions Into New Military Tech
From €142 million to €1 billion ($1.1 billion) a year. The European Commission is pressing the accelerator on investment in…
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security
How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter
As Russia has tested every form of attack on Ukraine’s civilians over the past decade, both digital and physical, it’s…
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The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who live within range of its 450 intercontinental ballistic missile silos, the…
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security
The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities
The week was particularly chock-full of dramatic security news. On Friday, a flawed update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform caused massive…
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FISA Fight
US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abuse
Members of the United States Senate have been working for more than a month to shore up safeguards against further…
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