Secret U.S. surveillance court didn’t reject a single request from federal agencies in 2015: Memo
(Cyberwar.news) [Reuters] The secretive U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court did not deny a single government request in 2015 for electronic surveillance orders granted for foreign intelligence purposes, continuing a longstanding trend, a Justice Department document showed. The court received 1,457 requests last year on behalf of the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Read More
Report: Number of cyber ‘incidents’ up at federal agencies
(Cyberwar.news) Even as officials were scrambling to tamp down IT vulnerabilities following a series of high-profile data breaches, the number of cybersecurity ‘incidents’ among federal agencies climbed last year, a new White House report noted. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, over the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2015, federal agencies reported 77,183 incidents, Read More
