Country Intelligence and Analysis
NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years By Michael Riley Apr 11, 2014 April 11 (Bloomberg) — Ghostery Senior Director of Research Andy Kahl and Bloomberg’s Michael Riley discuss the NSA’s knowledge of the Heartbleed bug on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg) The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at…
It did not end with Crimea, but then again, nobody thought it would. In the face of further Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine, the European Union and the United States should no longer consider financial and political support for the Ukrainian government an option. It’s now a necessity. NATO, on the other hand, should…
A Vanity Fair Exclusive by Vanity Fair PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN MCCABE. “Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away, because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating,” former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden tells Vanity Fair about his motivation for leaking tens of thousands of secret…
April 5th, 2014 By Fareed Zakaria For those of you tired of the coverage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, I want you to try an experiment. When you’re with a group of friends – whose eyes might roll over when you even bring up the issue – ask them what they think happened to the plane….
In Egypt, A Movement To Place Women In The Public Eye Women on Walls is a graffiti campaign designed to educate Egyptians about the difficulties faced by the country’s female population Sheera Frenkel BuzzFeed Staff Women on Walls just completed its most recent project in Cairo. The group of more than 60 artists tackles subjects…
A Syrian woman looks over Damascus
The Terrifying Target Data Breach Is Even Worse Than We Thought Up to 70 million Target customers are now believed to have had their data stolen, up from an original estimate of 40 million. The massive Target data breach is much larger than first reported last month and has hurt sales, the company announced Friday….
Revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in June about the U.S. government’s secret surveillance activities grabbed headlines across the globe. But while the world’s attention has been focused on the United States, prompting important discussions about the legitimacy and legality of such measures, disconcerting efforts to both monitor and censor…