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John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, voiced strong support for the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire next year, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Futur...

Hacking operation Volt Typhoon's link to China as asserted by the U.S. has been dismissed by the country's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, stating limited evidence to suggest the association while c...

Only more than 57,000 searches were conducted by the FBI on the database of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2023, representing an over 50% decrease in queries from the previous year that a senior FBI official said was due to the agency's internal reforms, according to Th...

Approval has been given by the Senate to legislation that would extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for another two years, which headed to the desk of President Joe Biden just minutes after the surveillance law expired, reports CyberScoop. The bill's inclusion of requ...

Bipartisan approval of legislation that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was achieved by the House a week before the surveillance tool's expiration on April 19, reports The Associated Press. The bill provides a shorter two-year extension to the surveilla...

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have sought the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for another year without any changes from the FISA Court amid the imminent expiration of the surveillance powers next month, acc...

The U.S. National Security has announced the retirement of its Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce by the end of next month following a 34-year career at the agency, Nextgov reports. David Luber, the current number two of the Cybersecurity Directorate, will be replacing Joyce, who has helmed the post ...

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who is the current Cyber Command deputy chief and the nominee of President Joe Biden to lead both the Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, has stressed the importance of renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which has bee...

Senior Biden administration officials have touted that several cyberattacks have been addressed by the U.S. government through intelligence obtained under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as they seek the reauthorization of the law before it expires by year-end, reports Cyber...

CyberScoop reports that the Biden administration's move to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without any changes has been contested in a Senate Judiciary hearing, with lawmakers expressing concern for the abuses associated with the surveillance authorities despite ...