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Intelligence sources say US electric grid hacked by foreign spies
In yesterday's edition, The Wall Street Journal quoted senior US intelligence sources, including former Homeland Security Department officials, who said that foreign spies have penetrated the...
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Republican Senator’s extra-marital affair endangered national security. John Ensign is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, including its Permanent Subcommittee...
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Analysis: Google-NSA partnership part of broader trend
We reported last week the apparent alliance between the Google Corporation and the US National Security Agency, which is the main US government organization tasked with communications interception, as...
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Senate bill proposes closer links between US spies, private sector
A bipartisan bill, unveiled yesterday in the US Senate, proposes closer links between US intelligence agencies and private sector companies active in areas of “critical infrastructure”.
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Russians ‘uncovered plan to kill Greek prime minister’
A Russian counter-surveillance team operating in Athens in 2008 confronted a foreign team from “a country allied to Greece”, which planned to kill Kostas Karamanlis, then Greece’s Prime Minister.
View ArticleGerman intelligence chief says Russia tried to hack energy grid
The head of Germany’s domestic security agency has publicly blamed the Russian government for a large-scale cyberattack that has targeted German energy providers.
View ArticleUS to shut down its embassy in Venezuela as national blackout enters 6th day
The United States said on Tuesday that it will evacuate its last few diplomats from its embassy in Caracas, as the electricity blackout in Venezuela enters its sixth day, making it the longest energy...
View ArticleEmirates authorities confirm four ships targeted by ‘sabotage operations’
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates said on Sunday that four commercial ships were targeted by “sabotage operations”, but did not point to possible culprits. The announcement came hours after false...
View ArticleIsrael behind mysterious attacks on Iranian oil tankers, report claims
THE ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE SERVICES are behind a series of mysterious attacks that have damaged Iranian oil tankers in the past 24 months, according to a new report that cites sources in the...
View ArticleCroatia to extradite whistleblower who alleged Dutch oil firm spent millions...
A WHISTLEBLOWER WHO CLAIMS that a major Dutch oil firm paid millions in bribes to officials in return for lucrative contracts, is to be extradited to Monaco, following his arrest in Croatia last summer.
View ArticleUS government report details first-ever drone attack on energy grid
A REPORT ISSUED BY the United States government last month provides details of what is thought to be the first known attack on the country’s energy infrastructure by an unmanned aircraft system.
View ArticleRussia covertly mapping key energy infrastructure for sabotage, Dutch report...
THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES are “covertly mapping” the energy infrastructure of the North Sea, in preparation for acts of disruption and sabotage, according to a new report form the Dutch...
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