Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads. The arrangement promises Google AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity, all in sovereign datacenters built in the UK. Read More …

FBI raids former national security adviser John Bolton’s home in high-profile national security probe

FBI agents raided the DC-area home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal. Federal agents went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., from 7 Read More …

Taiwan arrests 6 in probe of TSMC chip technology leak

Taiwan prosecutors arrested six people suspected of stealing trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), opening an investigation into a potential breach of national security involving a global tech industry linchpin. The chipmaker to Nvidia reported a number of Read More …

Frozen in transit: Secret Blizzard’s AiTM campaign against diplomats

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a cyberespionage campaign by the Russian state actor we track as Secret Blizzard that has been targeting embassies located in Moscow using an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) position to deploy their custom ApolloShadow malware. ApolloShadow has the Read More …

Two Pentagon officials fired amid sweeping leak investigation

The week of turmoil affecting the Pentagon’s inner circle continued Friday, when two political appointees suspended earlier this week were terminated, multiple officials told CBS News. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, ordered an investigation into Read More …

NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has warned. The technique is known as fast flux. It allows Read More …

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The Read More …

Pentagon announces leak investigation that will include polygraphs

The Department of Defense is investigating “recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information” and plans to use polygraphs as part of the probe, according to a memo published to the department’s website Friday. “The use of polygraphs in the execution Read More …

Longtime FBI agent charged with disclosing classified records

A longtime FBI agent has been charged with unlawfully taking and disclosing classified FBI files, according to court records reviewed by CBS News. Johnathan Buma, who specialized in national security and terror cases, has been released on $100,000 bond, with Read More …

Trump ends Biden’s security clearances, intelligence briefings

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s security clearances and stopping his daily intelligence briefings as there was no need for his predecessor to receive classified information. In a post on Truth Social, Read More …