From the Free Beacon: Six months after President Barack Obama invoked emergency powers to block the assets of any person caught engaging in “malicious cyber-enabled activities,” the administration has not identified a single qualifying target, according to the Treasury Department, which disclosed in a report that “no entities or individuals have been designated.” The April […]
Cyber warfare will complement current efforts to defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq: President Obama was scheduled Monday to address future efforts against ISIS at a conference in Germany with several European leaders, The New York Times reported. One of those efforts is the burgeoning cyber war. “We are dropping cyberbombs,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert […]
From the Free Beacon: Six months after China pledged to halt cyber espionage against the United States, Beijing’s hackers continue to conduct cyber attacks on government and private networks, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command told Congress. Despite a formal pledge made by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in September, “cyber operations from China are still targeting […]
Well, it was. Can you trust the Chinese government from using the information they stole from the U.S. federal government to blackmail intelligence and defense officials?
No accountability for the Obama administration, apparently: The Obama administration at the “last minute” on Tuesday declined to allow leading officials to testify before a classified House committee investigating a massive hack attack on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that led to the disclosure of millions of personal records, according to a leading lawmaker. […]