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Twitter Tells News Organizations to Expect Even More Hacks in the Future
April 30, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
A little less than a week after a hacked Associated Press account reported a non-existent bombing at the White House, Twitter decided it was time to comfort journalists by warning them that they should expect to get hacked. "We believe that these attacks will continue, and that news and media ...
The CIA Gave Karzai Bags Full of Cash for Over a Decade
April 29, 2013 Afghan president Hamid Karzai has a sugar daddy, and its name is the Central Intelligence Agency. Or at least it had a sugar daddy. For over ten years, American spies greased Karzai's palms about once a month with suitcases, backpacks and even plastic grocery bags full of cash. And not ...
CISPA Is Dead, Long Live CISPA
April 26, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
After stirring up trouble for months, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act died a quiet death in the Senate on Thursday. Despite the bill's passage in the House, Senators decided to pigeonhole the legislation. It was not necessarily a surprising move for the upper chamber, especially given the fact ...
Senate Passes Bill to End FAA Furloughs Just in Time to Fly Home
April 25, 2013 In a marathon session before a weeklong recess, Senators finally found a way to agree on something Thursday night, when they passed a bill to end flight controller furloughs. Thanks to the sequester, the Federal Aviation Administration has to figure out a way to save $637 million before Sept. 30, ...
CIA Added Tamerlan Tsarnaev to a Terrorist Watchlist 18 Months Ago
April 25, 2013 The U.S. intelligence committee is already contradicting itself as the investigation into the Boston bombing unfolds. Turns out the CIA knew about one of the Tsarnaev brothers after all. In fact, the sleuths in Langley added Tamerlan Tsarnaev to a watchlist a full 18 months before the attack on the ...
Good Timing: Twitter Will Soon Release a Two-Step Security Solution
April 24, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Some Twitter employee — probably several employees, actually — had a pretty rough day on Tuesday, after a hack led to the AP sending a fake tweet to its 2 million followers. If only the hacker had waited, Twitter could've stopped them! Minutes before appearing on the Rachel Maddow Show ...
The Government's Throwing the Book at Lance Armstrong
April 24, 2013 After much speculation, the Justice Department pulled back the curtain on its plan to recoup some of the dozens of millions of dollars that the government spent sponsoring confessed cheater Lance Armstrong. The filing contends that Armstrong was "unjustly enriched" during his time on the United States Postal Service Team. ...
An Internet Sales Tax Suddenly Seems Imminent
April 23, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
An overwhelming majority of Senators just voted to cut the debate short and get a final vote on a controversial bill that will impose sales tax on purchases made on the Internet. Though support to move the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act forward jumped from less than 60 senators to 74 ...
Feds Arrest Paul Kevin Curtis Over Ricin-Laced Letters
April 18, 2013 Federal agents took a man from Corinth, Mississippi into custody on Wednesday evening under suspicion of sending letters covered in ricin to the president and Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker. Citing an FBI bulletin, NBC News reports that the suspect's name is Paul Kevin Curtis, and anyone who's been following the ...
The Question of Whether We Can Patent Genes Heads to the Supreme Court
April 15, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
While tech types have been crowing over how broken the software patent system has become, the medical community is dealing with a much more serious question: Should we be able to patent genes? That is, does the centuries' old method for protecting intellectual property and rewarding research still apply when ...
