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THE PITFALLS OF MASS-PRODUCED ENCRYPTION

During the G8 summit meeting in Moscow this week as ministers laid plans for future cooperation in fighting cybercrime several law enforcement and intelligence officials on the sidelines were instead weighing the consequences of mass-produced encryption. Indeed, the recent lifting [...]

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United States
NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

After coming under fire in Congress in late November during a debate on the legality of interceptions by the Echelon [...]

Subscribers only 16.12.1999

United States
SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

According to Intelligence Newsletter sources in Congress, NSA officials won't be heard before the House of Representative's Government Reform Committee [...]

Subscribers only 02.12.1999

United States
BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

Legislator Bob Barr has benefited from a favorable climate in the U.S. Congress to mark an important point in his [...]

Subscribers only 18.11.1999

United States
CIVILIANS BUCKING CHANGE AT NSA

National Security Agency insiders say the organization's new director, Lt.-Gen. Michael Hayden, who took up his job in March, has [...]

Subscribers only 04.11.1999

United States
WORK ON INFORMATION SECURITY "LARGELY FRUITLESS

" Several leading information industry specialists and academics have concluded [...]

Subscribers only 04.11.1999

United States
NSA AND NIST SHOW THEIR STUFF

Some of the leading lights in the field of information [...]

Subscribers only 21.10.1999

United States
HIGH TECH INTELLIGENCE SHOW

The National Security Agency is planning to give outside experts [...]

Subscribers only 21.10.1999

United States
FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

American claims that the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7 by US Air Force fighters was [...]

Subscribers only 07.10.1999

United States
NSA'S SUPER COMPUTER

The computer manufacturer SGN based in Mountain View, California, has [...]

Subscribers only 07.10.1999

Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

In recent months the Pentagon and NSA have undertaken secret and direct negotiations with the bosses of IBM and Microsoft to get them to install systems enabling the intelligence community to gain access to encrypted data.

Subscribers only 07.10.1999

United States
FRESH APPROACH TO ENCRYPTION

The hand of the U.S. Justice Department and Pentagon in shaping American policy on cryptography became ever-more evident when the [...]

Subscribers only 23.09.1999

United States
NSA WANTS TO WORK WITH BANKS

The National Security Agency (NSA) recently approached the American Bankers Association (ABA) with an offer to help set up an [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1999

United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

A book published in the United States this month identifies American companies linked to the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1999

United States
WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

Washington is intent on creating a massive domestic and international Internet monitoring system, according to Intelligence Newsletter sources close to [...]

Subscribers only 08.07.1999

United Kingdom
NEW HOME FOR GCHQ

Cheltenham borough council has approved final details for a new center for Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Designed by the [...]

Subscribers only 08.07.1999

United States
ENCRYPTION EXPORTS TO BE LIBERALIZED?

The President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC) met in [...]

Subscribers only 08.07.1999

United States
SECRET HELP FOR KOSOVARS

According to an Intelligence Newsletter source at the Pentagon who has just returned from the Balkans, a significant number of [...]

Subscribers only 24.06.1999

Spotlight | Europe, United States
GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

Over the past six months a roaring trade has sprung up on back-street markets for equipment to intercept cellular telephone calls that had once been reserved for government intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The risk that GSM networks are being [.

Subscribers only 10.06.1999

United States
UNIVERSITIES WIN TOP MARKS FROM NSA

The National Security Agency has singled out seven American universities [...]

Subscribers only 27.05.1999

United States
MONET, A NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEM

Three major American military facilities in the Washington region – those of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Defense Information Systems [...]

Subscribers only 27.05.1999

United States
CONGRESS MOVE TO CURB ECHELON

A Republican congressman from Georgia, Bob Barr, successfully introduced an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act on May 13 that [...]

Subscribers only 27.05.1999

United States
FORMER NSA DIRECTOR TO PROMOTE EXPORTS

President Bill Clinton announced on April 14 that he was [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 22.04.1999

United States
THOMAS WILSON

After naming an Air Force general, Michael Hayden, as head of the NSA last month (IN 353/354) president Bill Clinton [...]

Subscribers only 22.04.1999

Canada, United States
QUEBEC DATAMINING FOR NSA

The National Security Agency (NSA) plans to use Nucleus software manufactured by the small Montreal-based company Sand Technology Systems for [...]

Subscribers only 22.04.1999

United States
PENTAGON FAULTED FOR INADEQUATE C4I

A committee of independent experts chaired by Jim McGroddy, who was an IBM vice president in charge of research until [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.1999

United States
NEW BOSS AT NSA

As Intelligence Newsletter predicted in its last issue (IN 353), [...]

Subscribers only 11.03.1999

United States
NSA VOICES FEARS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY

Speaking before a House judiciary sub-committee on March 4, NSA [...]

Subscribers only 11.03.1999

United States
WHO WILL FILL NSA SLOT?

With U.S. Air Force lt.-gen. Kenneth Minihan due to step down as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) in [...]

Subscribers only 25.02.1999

United States
HOW THE NSA "WEAKENS" ALGORITHMS

In the latest of his electronic Crypto Gram publications dated Feb. 15, cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, head of the Minneapolis-based [...]

Subscribers only 25.02.1999

United States
THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE

The recent publication of the book "Top Secret Intranet" (Prentice Hall, NJ., ISBN 0-13-080898-9) by a former top-level NSA official, [...]

Subscribers only 11.02.1999

United States
NSA'S POST-COLD WAR PROFILE

Significant new details on how the National Security Agency is organized in the post-Cold War era have emerged from new [...]

Subscribers only 28.01.1999

Spotlight | Iraq, United States
TOUGH TEST FOR U.S. CODE-BREAKERS

The huge electronic spying operation carried out since 1996 in Iraq by the United States, Israel, Britain and several other countries via UNSCOM raises a lot of questions. One concerns its effectiveness. The results appear to have fallen short of [.

Subscribers only 14.01.1999

United States
NSA'S HAND IN SHAPING RESEARCH

The National Security Agency has always played a key role in the United States by spurring research – both in-house [...]

Subscribers only 14.01.1999

United States
DE-CLASSIFYING THE OBVIOUS AND THE LESS SO

Over the last several years the National Security Agency has declassified a variety of facts about operational and administrative matters, [...]

Subscribers only 31.12.1998

United States
NSA-FBI COMPUTER SECURITY PUSH

Authoritative sources have confirmed that the NSA and FBI are beginning to engage massively in monitoring domestic computer security "incidents." [...]

Subscribers only 10.12.1998

Spotlight | United States
DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

A flurry of recent ballistic weapons tests highlights the importance of an obscure intelligence organization that is soon to celebrate its 35th anniversary in helping the U.S. to monitor new missile developments across the world.

Subscribers only 26.11.1998

United States
ANNUAL RSA CONFERENCE

For the first time, the 1999 version of the renowned [...]

Subscribers only 26.11.1998

United Kingdom
LOOKING FOR LOST CODES

Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) appears highly intrigued by the [...]

Subscribers only 29.10.1998

United States
INTERNAL ESPIONAGE?

A former NSA and CIA legal counselor, Elizabeth Rindskopf, publicly [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 29.10.1998

Russia, United States
THE CASE AGAINST AN AMERICAN SPY

An affidavit issued by the FBI after it proceeded with the little-noticed arrest of former Army intelligence officer David Sheldon [...]

Subscribers only 29.10.1998

United States
NSA'S HIGHER COMPUTER-SECURITY PROFILE

The National Security Agency's increased role in helping industry tighten its information and computer security practices was underscored by the [...]

Subscribers only 15.10.1998

United States
THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

The National Security Agency is being asked increasingly by the government's civilian branches to simulate attacks on their computer systems [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 17.09.1998

United States
HOW THE INFOWAR GROUPS OPERATE

Previously classified National Security Agency (NSA) briefing slides have shed light on the structure and tasks of two of the [...]

Subscribers only 03.09.1998

United States
SOFT LANDING FOR EX-SPIES

The National Security Agency launched a program two years ago to pension off some of its older staff by finding [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 03.09.1998

United States
ENCRYPTION WITH A "PRIVATE DOORBELL"

Thirteen U.S. computer companies announced on July 13 that they had made a new "breakthrough" on the encryption export front. [...]

Subscribers only 16.07.1998

France
SCSSI TO BE BEEFED UP?

The French government is thinking of considerably beefing up the Service Central pour la Securite des Systemes d'Information (SCSSI) to [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 16.07.1998

United States
THE THREATS AND TRANSPARENCY GAME

In a hearing before a Senate panel on June 24, CIA director George Tenet and NSA boss Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minihan [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 02.07.1998

Spotlight | Europe, United States
NEW PUSH FOR NETWORK SECURITY

Not too long ago the intelligence and defense sectors were alone in worrying about the security of information systems, and the question was handled on a national level. But with the growth of the Internet the issue now involves every [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 18.06.1998

Mongolia
HAND-IN-GLOVE WITH NSA

The National Security Agency recently set up listening posts in Outer Monogola to intercept Chinese army communications. The advent of [...]

Subscribers only 18.06.1998

United States
NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

The National Security Agency, which prides itself on ensuring the use of American-made chips and printed circuit boards for its [...]

Subscribers only 04.06.1998

United States
AGENCIES SLAMMED FOR LOSING THEIR EDGE

The skills of the U.S. intelligence community have "dwindled since the break-up of the Soviet Union," according to the House [...]

Subscribers only 21.05.1998

United States
A GLIMPSE AT AMERICAN SIGINT

A key element in the management of the U.S. signals intelligence effort, the National SIGINT Committee, has undergone a number [...]

Subscribers only 19.03.1998

United States
MERGER MANIA IN ENCRYPTION TRADE

Experts are wondering whether a current wave of mergers in the U.S. encryption business can be interpreted as a sign [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 05.03.1998

United Kingdom
INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG), a division of Britain's SIGINT organization GCHQ that vets information technology products for government [...]

Subscribers only 19.02.1998

United States
HOW NIST AND NSA POOL THEIR EFFORTS

Speaking before the U.S. Senate subcommittee for technology and space on Feb. 10, Raymond Kammer, the new director of the [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 19.02.1998

United States
RICHARD WILHEM

Retired U.S. Navy captain Richard Wilhem, who was the head of NSA's Information Warfare program in the early 1990s, has [...]

Subscribers only 05.02.1998

United States
NSA TAKES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Clinton Brooks, who had served up to now as special [...]

Subscribers only 05.02.1998

United States
THOMAS MCDERMOTT

Former deputy director for information systems security at the National Security Agency (NSA), Thomas McDermott has been named senior vice [...]

Subscribers only 22.01.1998

United States
CROWELL LANDS AT CYLINK CORP

In contact with several companies in the computer field since he retired in September (IN 322/323), the former deputy director [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 22.01.1998

Sweden
AUTHORITIES FIND LOTUS "FLAW"

The Swedish government has just discovered that the encryption software in the Lotus Notes (IBM) system includes a "flaw" that [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 08.01.1998

Spotlight | United States
HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

A top-line panel has recommended a shake-up in American intelligence that would include such revolutionary moves as uncoupling the Directorate of Intelligence from the CIA and reducing it drastically in size. The panel, chaired by former National Security Agency director [.

Subscribers only 18.12.1997

United States
SWEEPING OVERHAUL FOR NSA

The National Security Agency is radically overhauling the structure of its Directorate of Operations, ending the latter's 45-year-long practice of [...]

Subscribers only 04.12.1997

United States
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

Unveiled on Nov. 5 after several months of sometimes story debate, the report that the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure [...]

Subscribers only 20.11.1997

Europe
INTERCEPTION IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT

Spectronic Denmark, a world leader in electronic surveillance equipment for government agencies, recently introduced new equipment allowing for the remote-control [...]

Subscribers only 20.11.1997

United States
WILLIAM CROWELL -- A CLARIFICATION

William Crowell, the former deputy director of the NSA who retired in September, hasn't been hired by SRI Consulting as [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 20.11.1997

United States
WILLIAM CROWELL

Less than two months after he retired as deputy director of the National Security Agency (NSA), William Crowell has been [...]

Subscribers only 06.11.1997

United States
CISCO WINS NSA CONTRACT

The U.S. magazine Federal Computer Week has revealed that the [...]

Subscribers only 09.10.1997

Spotlight | United States
LIFTING CLAMPS A KEY TO U.S. POWER

By easing legislation on the export of sensitive equipment and goods in recent years the United States has considerably boosted its industrial, commercial, political and military might in the world. The change has been marked by fierce arguments -- such [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 24.07.1997

United States
AMERICAN SIGINT BASE TO CLOSE DOWN

The last major American signals intelligence facility in Germany may close down in the near future. The Senate Select Committee [...]

Subscribers only 26.06.1997

United States
NEW WAYS TO HIT "HARD TARGETS"

In a recent talk with newsmen, Keith Hall, director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), outlined a number of new [...]

Subscribers only 26.06.1997

Spotlight | Europe, United States
STANDARDS A WEAPON IN INFOWAR

Up to now, standards and norms on a national or world level traditionally emerged from a long bureaucratic process established by engineers isolated in their specific technical fields. For some time now, however, this backwater world has become a strategic [.

Subscribers only 12.06.1997

United States
BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Set up last December, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) that aims to hammer out a national strategy [...]

Subscribers only 13.03.1997

Spotlight | United States
CRYPTOGRAPHY'S LEAP INTO COMMERCIAL ARENA

By the end of this year cryptography will have definitely quit the intelligence and defense spheres in which it has been carefully enclosed up to now and thrown itself into the commercial era. The RSA Data Security Conference which was [.

Subscribers only 13.02.1997

United States
STEELE TESTS WATER FOR GORE

Robert Steele, pioneer in the use of open sources by U.S. intelligence, has angrily protested over two decisions taken by [...]

Subscribers only 16.01.1997

United States
BALANCING ACT BETWEEN DCI AND SENATE

The 1997 Intelligence Authorization Act signed by President Bill Clinton in October will lift U.S. spending on intelligence to a [...]

Subscribers only 14.11.1996

United States
LIFTING THE VEIL ON NRO

The US National Reconnaissance Office has released further details about its budget, personnel, organization and future plans. Among the details [...]

Subscribers only 14.11.1996

United States
THE LAST OF VENONA'S SECRETS

The final batch of Venona documents that provide information on Americans, Britons, Australians and others who gave the Soviet Union [...]

Subscribers only 17.10.1996

United States
LATEST ADVANCES IN TRANSLATION MACHINES

Thomas Pedtke, who holds the job of Associate Chief Scientist at the National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC), gave an interesting [...]

Subscribers only 19.09.1996

United States
A "LOCKBOX" TO KEEP CODES

The U S company Trusted Information Services (TIS) was one of the first to criticize the Clipper Chip when it [...]

Subscribers only 18.07.1996

Spotlight | Europe
KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

European legislation on encryption is widely varied. For instance, Dirk Heuze, head of BSI, the German information security agency, strongly recommends that companies encrypt their messages on the Internet. His French counterpart, gen. Jean-Louis Desvignes, head of the Service Central [.

Subscribers only 18.07.1996

United States
704TH'S WORK FOR NSA

Recent leaks in the U.S. indicate that the 704th Military Intelligence Brigade based at Fort Meade, Maryland, provides major support [...]

Subscribers only 26.06.1996

Spotlight | United States
DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

John Deutch's plan to overhaul American intelligence that was presented to Congress in late April aims to meld a profusion of agencies with often overlapping powers into a genuine, unified and more effective "intelligence community" with a much smaller workforce.

Subscribers only 09.05.1996

United States
FIXING AGENDA FOR TCA

The Technical Collection Agency that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said in its IC21 report (IN --) should [...]

Subscribers only 18.04.1996

Spotlight | United States
DRAWING NEW MAP FOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE

The high-level panel set up under former defence secretary Harold Brown to assess the performance of the American intelligence community has rejected any massive overhaul of U.S. intelligence. The panel, named the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 07.03.1996

Spotlight | United States
NEW BLUEPRINT FOR U.S. SIGINT

The National Security Agency has undertaken a major rehaul of its signals intelligence operations which reflects the collapse of the Soviet threat, budget reductions and personnel cutbacks in the U.S. intelligence community and an increased commitment to collecting SIGINT to [.

Subscribers only 26.10.1995

United Kingdom
NEW BOSS AT GCHQ

David Omand, a 48-year-old leading official at Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD), is strongly tipped to become the new head [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.1995

France
A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

For years Jean-Bernard Condat has undoubtedly been France's best-known computer hacker. Appearing on television talk shows, launching provocative operations and [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.1995

United States
BANKING SYSTEM IGNORES DANGER

The National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies are persuaded that American banks either ignore the danger of hackers [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 14.09.1995

Israel, United States
ISRAEL ANGLE IN FOSTER CASE

James Norman, a senior editor at Forbes magazine for five years, was suddenly fired two weeks ago in connection with [...]

Subscribers only 31.08.1995

United States
THE NSA'S TURN

Following the Association of Old Crows' success in staging its [...]

Subscribers only 31.05.1995

United Kingdom
BAD NEWS FOR GCHQ

A committee looking into the capability, tasks and management structure at GCHQ Cheltenham at prime minister John Major's bidding is [...]

Subscribers only 12.04.1995

United Kingdom
SECRETS OF MENWITH HILL

British defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind recently signed a so-called Public Interest Immunity certificate claiming that any "official disclosures" in court [...]

Subscribers only 29.03.1995

United States
NSA GETS LEG-UP FROM HPCC

Many experts are convinced the National Security Agency's main reason for climbing aboard the Clinton administrations's High Performance Computing and [...]

Subscribers only 14.12.1994

Spotlight | United States
THE MARCH TO "OFF-THE-SHELF" INTELLIGENCE

Many high-level officials from the National Security Agency turned up at the latest seminar staged in Washington by Open Sources Solutions, the company headed by Robert Steele which has worked in recent years to encourage intelligence services to use open [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 30.11.1994

United Kingdom
LAYOFFS AT GCHQ

At least 500 jobs will be eliminated at the GCHQ SIGINT base because of government belt-tightening. GCHQ bosses hope the [...]

Subscribers only 16.11.1994

United States
NSA CENSORS INSLAW PUBLICLY

When Wayne Madson of Computer Sciences Corp. asked Inslaw owner Bill Hamilton to address the privacy panel at the recent [...]

Subscribers only 07.09.1994

United States
DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

Capitalizing on the fact that the American military is known as an organization where women and minorities can move up [...]

Subscribers only 24.08.1994

United States
INSLAW BODY COUNT RISING?

As the House Judiciary Committee awaits the final Department of Justice report on the Inslaw case concerning the pirated PROMIS [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1994

United States
NSA GUARDING A CLOSED MARKET?

Denials of export licences for American encryption technologies and denials of joint development with foreign firms may have inadvertently revealed [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1994

Spotlight | Israel, United States
PROMIS: ISRAELI BACKLASH IN THE U.S.?

In pursuing indications that the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was trying to graft an artificial intelligence capacity onto illegal copies of Promis software, Bill Hamilton, president of Inslaw which originally produced the software, conducted a Freedom [.

Subscribers only 06.07.1994

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United States NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

United States SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

United States BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

United States CIVILIANS BUCKING CHANGE AT NSA

United States WORK ON INFORMATION SECURITY "LARGELY FRUITLESS

United States NSA AND NIST SHOW THEIR STUFF

United States HIGH TECH INTELLIGENCE SHOW

United States FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

United States NSA'S SUPER COMPUTER

Spotlight | United States IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

United States FRESH APPROACH TO ENCRYPTION

United States NSA WANTS TO WORK WITH BANKS

United States COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

United Kingdom NEW HOME FOR GCHQ

United States ENCRYPTION EXPORTS TO BE LIBERALIZED?

United States SECRET HELP FOR KOSOVARS

Spotlight | Europe, United States GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

United States UNIVERSITIES WIN TOP MARKS FROM NSA

United States MONET, A NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEM

United States CONGRESS MOVE TO CURB ECHELON

United States FORMER NSA DIRECTOR TO PROMOTE EXPORTS

United States THOMAS WILSON

Canada, United States QUEBEC DATAMINING FOR NSA

United States PENTAGON FAULTED FOR INADEQUATE C4I

United States NEW BOSS AT NSA

United States NSA VOICES FEARS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY

United States WHO WILL FILL NSA SLOT?

United States HOW THE NSA "WEAKENS" ALGORITHMS

United States THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE

United States NSA'S POST-COLD WAR PROFILE

Spotlight | Iraq, United States TOUGH TEST FOR U.S. CODE-BREAKERS

United States NSA'S HAND IN SHAPING RESEARCH

United States DE-CLASSIFYING THE OBVIOUS AND THE LESS SO

United States NSA-FBI COMPUTER SECURITY PUSH

Spotlight | United States DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

United States ANNUAL RSA CONFERENCE

United Kingdom LOOKING FOR LOST CODES

United States INTERNAL ESPIONAGE?

Russia, United States THE CASE AGAINST AN AMERICAN SPY

United States NSA'S HIGHER COMPUTER-SECURITY PROFILE

United States THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

United States HOW THE INFOWAR GROUPS OPERATE

United States SOFT LANDING FOR EX-SPIES

United States ENCRYPTION WITH A "PRIVATE DOORBELL"

France SCSSI TO BE BEEFED UP?

United States THE THREATS AND TRANSPARENCY GAME

Spotlight | Europe, United States NEW PUSH FOR NETWORK SECURITY

Mongolia HAND-IN-GLOVE WITH NSA

United States NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

United States AGENCIES SLAMMED FOR LOSING THEIR EDGE

United States A GLIMPSE AT AMERICAN SIGINT

United States MERGER MANIA IN ENCRYPTION TRADE

United Kingdom INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

United States HOW NIST AND NSA POOL THEIR EFFORTS

United States RICHARD WILHEM

United States NSA TAKES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

United States THOMAS MCDERMOTT

United States CROWELL LANDS AT CYLINK CORP

Sweden AUTHORITIES FIND LOTUS "FLAW"

Spotlight | United States HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States SWEEPING OVERHAUL FOR NSA

United States PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

Europe INTERCEPTION IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT

United States WILLIAM CROWELL -- A CLARIFICATION

United States WILLIAM CROWELL

United States CISCO WINS NSA CONTRACT

Spotlight | United States LIFTING CLAMPS A KEY TO U.S. POWER

North Korea, Russia
Moscow and Pyongyang's budding 'romance'

Ukraine
Jamming wars

China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Europe, Russia
Chechen separatism, the anti-Putin trump card

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

Spotlight | Europe, United States
THE PITFALLS OF MASS-PRODUCED ENCRYPTION

United States
NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

United States
SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

United States
BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

United States
CIVILIANS BUCKING CHANGE AT NSA

United States
WORK ON INFORMATION SECURITY "LARGELY FRUITLESS

United States
NSA AND NIST SHOW THEIR STUFF

United States
HIGH TECH INTELLIGENCE SHOW

United States
FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

United States
NSA'S SUPER COMPUTER

Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

United States
FRESH APPROACH TO ENCRYPTION

United States
NSA WANTS TO WORK WITH BANKS

United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States
WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

United Kingdom
NEW HOME FOR GCHQ

United States
ENCRYPTION EXPORTS TO BE LIBERALIZED?

United States
SECRET HELP FOR KOSOVARS

Spotlight | Europe, United States
GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

United States
UNIVERSITIES WIN TOP MARKS FROM NSA

United States
MONET, A NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEM

United States
CONGRESS MOVE TO CURB ECHELON

United States
FORMER NSA DIRECTOR TO PROMOTE EXPORTS

United States
THOMAS WILSON

Canada, United States
QUEBEC DATAMINING FOR NSA

United States
PENTAGON FAULTED FOR INADEQUATE C4I

United States
NEW BOSS AT NSA

United States
NSA VOICES FEARS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY

United States
WHO WILL FILL NSA SLOT?

United States
HOW THE NSA "WEAKENS" ALGORITHMS

United States
THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE

United States
NSA'S POST-COLD WAR PROFILE

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TOUGH TEST FOR U.S. CODE-BREAKERS

United States
NSA'S HAND IN SHAPING RESEARCH

United States
DE-CLASSIFYING THE OBVIOUS AND THE LESS SO

United States
NSA-FBI COMPUTER SECURITY PUSH

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DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

United States
ANNUAL RSA CONFERENCE

United Kingdom
LOOKING FOR LOST CODES

United States
INTERNAL ESPIONAGE?

Russia, United States
THE CASE AGAINST AN AMERICAN SPY

United States
NSA'S HIGHER COMPUTER-SECURITY PROFILE

United States
THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

United States
HOW THE INFOWAR GROUPS OPERATE

United States
SOFT LANDING FOR EX-SPIES

United States
ENCRYPTION WITH A "PRIVATE DOORBELL"

France
SCSSI TO BE BEEFED UP?

United States
THE THREATS AND TRANSPARENCY GAME

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NEW PUSH FOR NETWORK SECURITY

Mongolia
HAND-IN-GLOVE WITH NSA

United States
NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

United States
AGENCIES SLAMMED FOR LOSING THEIR EDGE

United States
A GLIMPSE AT AMERICAN SIGINT

United States
MERGER MANIA IN ENCRYPTION TRADE

United Kingdom
INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

United States
HOW NIST AND NSA POOL THEIR EFFORTS

United States
RICHARD WILHEM

United States
NSA TAKES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

United States
THOMAS MCDERMOTT

United States
CROWELL LANDS AT CYLINK CORP

Sweden
AUTHORITIES FIND LOTUS "FLAW"

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HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States
SWEEPING OVERHAUL FOR NSA

United States
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

Europe
INTERCEPTION IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT

United States
WILLIAM CROWELL -- A CLARIFICATION

United States
WILLIAM CROWELL

United States
CISCO WINS NSA CONTRACT

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LIFTING CLAMPS A KEY TO U.S. POWER

United States
AMERICAN SIGINT BASE TO CLOSE DOWN

United States
NEW WAYS TO HIT "HARD TARGETS"

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STANDARDS A WEAPON IN INFOWAR

United States
BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE