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NSA reviewing official's part-time private work 10/17/2014 05:40pm • KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Security Agency says it is reviewing its decision to allow a top official to work part time for a cybersecurity firm that is pitching its services to the financial sector.NSA's Chief Technical Officer, Patrick Dowd, was given permis FBI investigating reports of attacks on US banks 08/29/2014 07:28am • NEW YORK (AP) -- The FBI said Wednesday it's working with the Secret Service to determine the scope of recently reported cyberattacks against several U.S. financial institutions.A report on Bloomberg.com said Wednesday that the FBI is investigating an incident in which Russian hackers attacked the U Premier FBI cybersquad in Pittsburgh to add agents 08/19/2014 06:10pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The FBI's premier cybersquad has focused attention on computer-based crime in recent months by helping prosecutors charge five Chinese army intelligence officials with stealing trade secrets from major companies and by snaring a Russian-led hacking ring Former NSA chief defends cybersecurity venture 08/05/2014 07:50pm • KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even in an era when former officials routinely profit from business ventures linked to their public service, recently retired National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander raised eyebrows when he disclosed he is working on patents for what he c Report: Chinese hackers hit US personnel networks 07/11/2014 05:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of the Office of Personnel Management earlier this year with the intention of accessing the files of tens of thousands of federal employees who had applied for top-secret security clearances, according to The New York Times.Senior U After Verizon, Germany mulls axing foreign tech 06/27/2014 09:31am • BERLIN (AP) -- First Verizon got the boot, now the German government is considering pulling the plug on foreign companies that provide hardware for official communication networks.An Interior Ministry spokesman says Germany is examining which devices can be used if it wants to keep critical IT infra US charges Chinese officials in cyberspying case 05/20/2014 04:32am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Accusing China of vast business spying, the United States charged five military officials on Monday with hacking into U.S. companies to steal vital trade secrets in a case intensifying already-rising tensions between the international economic giants.T AP National News Calendar 05/16/2014 04:19pm • The Associated Press Eds: Major scheduled events for the week of May 18-24. Note that many events are subject to change at the last minute.The following economic reports will be issued in Washington (all times EST):SUNDAY: No events of note.MONDAY: No events of note.TUESDAY: No events of note.WEDNE Stuxnet attack offers lesson for U.S. energy industry 02/14/2013 10:36pm • J.J. Green, wtop.com WASHINGTON - The still-classified U.S. and Israeli operation called Stuxnet that attacked Iran's nuclear program was a wake-up call for the nuclear power industry in the U.S. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, concerns grow that nuclear power plants, which house Obama issues cybersecurity order shoring up electronic defenses 02/12/2013 11:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House cybersecurity executive order President Barack Obama signed Tuesday will be the most comprehensive plan yet for confronting electronic attacks on America's computer networks, or at least a good-faith effort amid an alarming tide in industrial espionage in the The Situation: The threats facing the United States 09/13/2012 08:43pm • J.J. Green, wtop.com WASHINGTON - On the outside looking in to the U.S., all may seem fine. But keeping up appearances is becoming increasingly difficult as threats that emanate inside the country's borders are compromising the strong physique of the last "superpower." On Sept. 12, 2008, the n