Sentences with phrase «foreign intelligence operation»

The offensive against Fancy Bear appears to be the first time a technology company has tried to directly disrupt a foreign intelligence operation on a large scale.

The result is that the company can indirectly disrupt and observe aspects of a suspected foreign intelligence operation — a pretty clever trick for a tech company to pull off in its spare time.

NSA spokeswoman Vanee» Vines told CNN: «Gen. Alexander did not discuss with President Obama in 2010 an alleged foreign intelligence operation involving German Chancellor Merkel, nor has he ever discussed alleged operations involving Chancellor Merkel.

Suggesting that the scope of foreign intelligence operations on U.S. - based social platforms goes well beyond what we know now isn't meant to be scaremongering.

Not exact matches

Burnett: America's biggest exporter is a key target for foreign intelligence hacking given its defense contracts and operations around the world.

Two sources familiar with the memo said it accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of abusing their authority in asking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge to approve a request to extend an eavesdropping operation on Carter Page, an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.

These complex covert operations are commonly referred to in intelligence circles as «black ops», «extreme measures» and «wet work» and they are always done in the utmost secrecy and with the full knowledge and sometimes assitance and logistical support of either one or two other friendly and trusted foreign intelligence agencies.

The new head of MI6 who will head up Britain's foreign intelligence and espionage operations will be current UN ambassador Sir John Sawers, the government announced today.

Reports say that the NIA, which is Nigeria's foreign intelligence service, explained that the money, which was found on the seventh floor of the building, was approved by former President Goodluck Jonathan for covert operations and security projects covering a period of years.

These interests are either overt or covert and materialise during classified bilateral or multilateral talks or what in the intelligence and security environment you describe as sinister operations of foreign agents in diplomatic missions.

He read it several times before using the house phone in the hotel lobby to call Colonel Biermeier of the Stasi Main Directorate for Foreign Intelligence, the HVA, who was running the operation in Trieste.

The heatmap reportedly reveals the structure of foreign military bases by correlating the lit - up activity routes or «digital footprints» of individual users and the known bases of US military or intelligence operations.