What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak?
Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. […]
Tag: Security / National Security
The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command
Working in cybersecurity within the United States intelligence community means navigating a warren of male-dominated fields. Inequalities persist, but three senior-level women […]
Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election—but Not Hackers
After the pro-Trump hack-and-leak operations and disinformation campaigns that roiled the 2016 US election, the country braced for a second round of […]
‘Retaliation’ for Russia’s SolarWinds Spying Isn’t the Answer
Just how the White House actually plans to respond to the SolarWinds campaign remains far from clear. In comments to CNBC correspondent […]
What Did I Just Read? A Conversation With the Authors of ‘2034’
EA: Yeah, I think that’s fair. In the book, Wedge, the pilot, winds up as the commanding officer of Marine Fighter Attack […]
2034, Part VI: Crossing the Red Line
With the orders dispatched, Wisecarver set up a duty rotation among the national security staff and Chowdhury was sent home, to return […]
What Life Is Like Under Myanmar’s Internet Shutdown
Rumors of a coup were spreading before the military acted. Sophie*, an American software developer, was at home with her young son […]
2034, Part V: Sailing Into Darkness
She made a request to disable all of the avionics in one of her fighter squadrons, VMFA-323, the Death Rattlers, the only […]
China Hijacked an NSA Hacking Tool—and Used It for Years
More than four years after a mysterious group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers began wantonly leaking secret NSA hacking tools […]
2034, Part IV: The Spratly Islands Ambush
That had been the plan. But by late afternoon, there was still no sign of the Americans. Ma Qiang was on the […]