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Andrew Blake

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Andrew Blake was a cybersecurity reporter for The Washington Times.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting of the council of trustees of the Moscow State University (MGU) in Moscow on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. On Jan. 25 Russia marks Students' Day. (Alexei Nikolsky/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Senate, House intel panels launch probes into alleged Russian hacking

The House and Senate intelligence committees separately began investigating allegations this week involving the Russian government's attempts to meddle in the 2016 White House race as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle look for evidence indicating the Kremlin ordered hacking campaigns and other initiatives against American targets prior to President Trump's election.

January 25, 2017
The first page of the Joint Analysis Report narrative by the Department of Homeland Security and federal Bureau of Investigation and released on Dec. 29, 2016, is photographed in Washington, Jan. 6, 2017. Computer security specialists say the technical details in the narrative that the U.S. said would show whether computers had been infiltrated by Russian intelligence services were poorly done and potentially dangerous. Cybersecurity firms ended up counseling their customers to proceed with extreme caution after a slew of false positives led back to sites such as Amazon and Yahoo Inc. Companies and organizations were following the governments advice Dec. 29 and comparing digital logs recording incoming network traffic to their computers and finding matches to a list of hundreds of internet addresses the Homeland Security Department had identified as indicators of malicious Russian intelligence services cyber activity. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Senate bill calls for creation of Select Committee on Cybersecurity

A bipartisan bill introduced Wednesday in the Senate would establish the creation of a specialized committee devoted solely to cybersecurity, an effort to narrow the chamber's scope on an emerging topic that's become as convoluted as it is consequential.

January 25, 2017