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The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Bipartisan bill targets near-total control of online advertising by Facebook, Google

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times
In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, photo, North Korean students use computers in a classroom with portraits of the country's later leaders Kim Il-sung, left, and his son Kim Jong-il hanging on the wall at the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) **FILE**

North Koreans disguise as IT workers to infiltrate tech sector, aid Kim

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration offered humanitarian relief to Ukrainians in the United States on Thursday, March 3, 2022, which could protect thousands from being deported to their war-torn homeland. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

DHS vows to reboot disinformation board after hitting pause button

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Elon Musk says Twitter deal 'temporarily on hold,' but he's still committed to the acquisition

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confer during a conference after an Operation Lone Star roundtable discussion at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP) ** FILE **

Federal court allows Texas to enforce new social media law

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
This robot dog by Ghost Robotics was on display at an expo this week at Modern Day Marine in Washington, D.C. (Ryan Lovelace/The Washington Times)

Robot dogs seeking new homes in U.S. military and security agencies

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
(Associated Press/File)

State Department offers $10 million reward for identification of Conti ransomware gang leaders

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks at United Performance Metals in Hamilton, Ohio, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden announces push to cap internet costs for 48M households

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks with reporters about aid to Ukraine, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 10, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Republicans announce bill to shut down DHS 'disinformation' unit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
This Feb 23, 2019, photo shows the inside of a computer in Jersey City, N.J. Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday, July 4, 2021, to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached the company whose software was the conduit. An affiliate of the notorious REvil gang, infected thousands of victims in at least 17 countries on Friday, largely through firms that remotely manage IT infrastructure for multiple customers, cybersecurity researchers said. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

FBI: Russian cyberthreat fueled almost 2M warrantless searches of Americans' data in 2021

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
In this Feb. 25, 2015, photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington is shown here. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Biden official defends request for millions more for cybersecurity agency

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

DHS under fire over pick to lead new 'disinformation' board

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
In this June 24, 2020, file photo, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File) **FILE**

Congressman says DHS so bad that Americans won't name their kids Alejandro

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.)

GOP lawmaker presses for answers on China role in proposed Forbes sale

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
In this photograph released by the Press Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, destroyed radio antennas lie on the ground in Maiac, in the Moldovan separatist region of Trans-Dniester, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Police in the Moldovan separatist region of Trans-Dniester say two explosions on Tuesday morning in a radio facility close to the Ukrainian border knocked two powerful antennas out of service just a day after several explosions believed to be caused by rocket-propelled grenades were reported to have hit the Ministry of State Security in the city of Tiraspol, the region's capital (Press Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic via AP, HO)

More explosions in separatist Trans-Dniester, near Ukraine

Associated Press
A Metropolitan Police patrol car is parked in front of a a luxury apartment building in Southeast Washington, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady's security detail. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Federal grand jury indicts two men accused of posing as DHS agents

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, addresses a news conference during the Arctic Encounter symposium, Friday, April 8, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. Representatives from several Arctic countries, including the United States, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Greenland and Japan, met for a two-day conference to discuss areas of international collaboration, diplomacy and policies impacting the Arctic. One Arctic nation missing was Russia, which had expressed interest after initially pulling out but was told by event organizers it was not appropriate after Russia invaded Ukraine. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) **FILE**

Manchin warns Biden against removing sanctions on Iran for supporting global terrorism

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this Aug. 21, 2021, image provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Airmen and U.S. Marines guide evacuees aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Senior Airman Brennen Lege/U.S. Air Force via AP) ** FILE **

Culture shock: Afghan evacuees run afoul of U.S. laws with domestic violence, sex crimes

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The inside of a computer is seen on Feb 23, 2019, in Jersey City, N.J. A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars, computers and other modern-day necessities, so Congress is looking to boost chip manufacturing and research in the United States with billions of dollars from the federal government. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Congress seeks compromise to boost computer chip industry

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press
A line of Texas Department of Safety vehicles line up on the Texas side of the Rio Grande with Mexico visible, right, near an encampment of migrants, many from Haiti, on Sept. 22, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Texas strikes deal with Mexican state to police border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Apple CEO Tim Cook smiles as he opens the Apple Tower Theatre flagship retail store on Broadway Theatre District downtown Los Angeles Thursday, June 24, 2021. Apple's shareholders have approved a proposal Friday, March 4, 2022, urging the iPhone maker to undergo an independent audit assessing its treatment of female and minority employees, delivering a rare rebuke to a management team that runs the world's most valuable company. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Apple CEO Tim Cook slams policy efforts to diminish App Store dominance as dangerous for users

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
The affidavit to support the arrest of Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali is photographed Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Federal prosecutors have charged the two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady's security detail. Both were taken into custody as more than a dozen FBI agents charged into a luxury apartment building in Southeast Washington on Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Federal prosecutors probe foreign nexus of two individuals posing as U.S. federal agents

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
The Microsoft company logo is displayed at their offices in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Microsoft disrupts Russian cyberattackers targeting Ukraine, U.S., Europe

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
In this Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, file photo, Guy Fawkes masks, often associated with the hacker group Anonymous, are displayed in a section about hacking at SPYSCAPE in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

International hacking group Anonymous says they have hacked Russia's Central Bank

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times
In this March 30, 2012, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody as part of a nationwide immigration sweep in Chula Vista, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Federal judge rules Biden's lax deportation policy is illegal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks at Business Roundtable's CEO quarterly meeting, Monday, March 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden criticized for telling businesses they're responsible for cyberdefense against Russian attack

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
The Kremlin in Moscow, Sept. 29, 2017. The federal government's primary cyber security agency is urging computer network administrators for American critical infrastructure networks to immediately bolster security against electronic attacks following suspected Russian cyberstrikes against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Biden administration warns of Russian cyberattack

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
In this Sept. 17, 2020, file photo, visitors wearing mask to protect from the coronavirus walk past a 5G sign at the China Beijing International High Tech Expo in Beijing, China. Congress is reviewing rules to manage the nation’s electromagnetic spectrum resources to avoid falling behind China on both 5G deployment and future 6G wireless technology. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) **FILE**

Congress studying electromagnetic spectrum management to avoid falling behind China on 5G, 6G

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times
In this file photo, a group of migrant families walk from the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, near McAllen, Texas, March 14, 2019. The number of illegal immigrants nabbed at the southern border rose in February 2022 as single adult Mexicans poured into the country at their highest rate in years, according to new Homeland Security data released Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) **FILE**

Mexicans surged as illegal immigration on border rose in February

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., left, and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the ranking member, hold a hearing on worldwide threats as Russia continues to attack Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bipartisan Senate group urges DHS to provide answers on Russian cyberthreat

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Print Special Section

Download the Special Report available in the January 29, 2018, edition of The Washington Times. (3.8 MB)

Cybersecurity 2018: Online Security and Safety in Government, Industry and Civil Society: Download the Special Report available in the January 29, 2018, edition of The Washington Times. (3.8 MB)

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