Sentences with phrase «us intelligence agencies»

«I'm a little uncomfortable with Google cooperating this closely with the nation's largest intelligence agency, even if it's strictly for defensive purposes.»

Intelligence agencies are «forbidden from sharing anything with the private sectors,» he says.

The grim outlook follows news that millions of Yahoo account credentials were hacked and that Yahoo had been scanning emails for U.S. intelligence agencies.

Is it appropriate for the government's intelligence agency to work so closely with Google on security?

Both U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies issued warnings on Monday of Russian cyberattacks that could target government offices, small businesses, and individuals, according to The New York Times.

Twitter on Thursday banned advertisements from accounts owned by Russian media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, citing allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that the outlets tried to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election.

-- Dr. Walter S. Scott, founder, executive vice president, and CTO of satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe, which provides images and geospatial content to U.S. government defense and intelligence agencies, international governments, and major online mapping platforms such as Google.

Back in Washington after her husband became Central Intelligence Agency director in 1976, Bush endured a six - month bout of depression and felt too ashamed to seek treatment.

The recording was apparently passed to the CIA by the intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States.

In September, Bloomberg reported Russia's main intelligence agency told the company «it is obliged under Russian law passed last year to hand over keys allowing the government to decrypt any communications transmitted over it.»

Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is now Trump's national security adviser.

In December 2015, Flynn, then recently retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency, traveled to Moscow to speak at a gala celebrating the 10th anniversary of state - sponsored news agency Russia Today.

Steele, who was the head of the British intelligence agency MI6's Moscow desk and is known for his «knowledge of the intricate web» of Kremlin - tied companies and associates, wrote the dossier between July and December of 2016 as part of an opposition research project funded by anti-Trump Republicans.

Wikileaks this week contacted major tech companies including Apple and Google, and required them to assent to a set of conditions before receiving leaked information about security «zero days» and other surveillance methods in the possession of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In 2013, AWS won a contract from the Central Intelligence Agency — a classified deal that became public knowledge when a competitor sued the government over it.

U.S. intelligence agencies last year accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 election with a hacking and propaganda campaign supporting Donald Trump's campaign for president.

Such talk once seemed paranoid, but in light of Edward Snowden's allegations that intelligence agencies used back doors to snoop on people and governments, it's hard to dismiss it as such anymore.

«The dossier is, and continues to be, the subject of active investigations by Congress and intelligence agencies.

The exchange followed a Washington Post report, citing a Defense Intelligence Agency analysis, that Pyongyang successfully developed a nuclear warhead to use on its missiles.

Big tech companies have had a fraught relationship with intelligence agencies in recent years, with prior revelations of surveillance programs leading to efforts to reassure consumers that their devices are safe from snoops.

The Internet service providers serving these organizations were also targeted, according to a joint statement by the U.S.'s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security, and the National Cyber Security Centre division of the U.K.'s GCHQ intelligence agency.

Vice President - elect Mike Pence confirms that he and Trump will be briefed by the leadership of U.S. intelligence agencies on Friday.

And if so, if they drag on — does this then give intelligence agencies carte blanche to continue collecting phone metadata in bulk?

The White House, U.S. intelligence agencies and many Republican senators want to renew the law, which they consider vital to national security, without changes and make it permanent.

«Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to «leak» into the public,» Trump tweeted.

Hostility between Trump and the intelligence agencies has been heightened by a series of decisions by the White House.

For instance, intelligence agencies may go after political opponents to maintain or increase the level of influence they enjoy with the government.

U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns that Moscow might use the firm's products to attack American computer networks, a particularly sensitive issue given allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia hacked and leaked emails of Democratic Party political groups to interfere in the 2016 presidential election campaign.

The memo was circulated among U.S. intelligence agencies, and reportedly shown to President Barack Obama and Trump, but its claims have not verified and its reliability is very much in dispute.

Every intelligence agency that investigated the matter concluded by early 2017 that the Russian government had purposefully interfered in the 2016 US elections.

And it comes just a week after the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey escalated the tension between the White House and intelligence agencies.

The federal government has raised the National Terrorism Public Alert level from medium to high based on advice from security and intelligence agencies, but says it was not based on knowledge of a specific attack plan.

Bottom - up politicization happens when members of the intelligence agencies themselves target individuals or issues for political reasons.

According to the Defense Intelligence Agency's official website, Jay ran a committee that conducted «hundreds of investigations, arrests and trials involving influential businessmen and political figures loyal to the British Crown.»

«Even the intelligence agency in the Department of Homeland Security said the order would not reduce terrorism,» he said.

Trump's young presidency has been clouded by allegations from U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia sought to help him win, while connections between his campaign personnel and Russia also are under scrutiny.

The telescopes came from the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office), a hybrid intelligence agency staffed by members of the military, the CIA and civilian personnel from the Defense Department.

The new President is systematically trying to undercut any institution that poses a challenge to his power — the judiciary, the Senate, intelligence agencies, etc. — and the news media, with its power to synthesize, interpret, and amplify all these challenges, ranks at the top of this list.

The new Defense Clandestine Service, which is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is expected to play a large role in human intelligence and espionage in Africa.

«The Department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks,» DHS said in a statement.

But for the director of the US's top intelligence agency it's nothing less than a national security risk.

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

U.S. intelligence agencies said earlier this year that Kaspersky products were already generally not allowed on military networks.

The affair could have provided potential blackmail fodder to foreign intelligence agencies while raising the possibility of just the kind of security breach Petraeus may now be charged with.

It also comes after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed widespread intrusion by US intelligence agencies, who claimed that they could readily access personal data stored by companies such as Facebook and Google.

The Obama administration likened the new agency to the National Counterterrorism Center established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by al Qaeda following criticism that the various U.S. intelligence agencies were not communicating well.

He was previously the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, an important component of the U.S. intelligence community.

The U.S. and NATO buildup in eastern Europe comes days after U.S. intelligence agencies accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering an effort to help Republican Donald Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.

U.S. intelligence agencies have previously charged that a separate Russian effort hacked Democratic Party and Clinton campaign emails and leaked them to WikiLeaks in an effort to sway the election.

And that story was partly influenced by the Central Intelligence Agency, which gave Bigelow and her producers unprecedented access to the agency's classified documents on the intelligence that led to both the finding of bin Laden and the raid on the Al Qaeda leader's compound.