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Andrew Blake

ablake@washingtontimes.com

Andrew Blake was a cybersecurity reporter for The Washington Times.

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In this Feb. 14, 2015, file photo, Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event sponsored by ACLU Hawaii in Honolulu. A declassified report on a congressional investigation into Edward Snowden says the former National Security Agency contractor has remained in contact with Russian intelligence services since he arrived in Moscow three years ago. The House Intelligence committee released the report Thursday. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

House panel says Edward Snowden in cahoots with Russian spies

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence accused former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of maintaining contacts with Russian spies, but the leaker of classified information quickly responded by saying the report released Thursday was "rifled with obvious falsehoods."

December 22, 2016
A woman uses an Android smartphone in Brussels on Wednesday April 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

DNC hackers likely used Android exploit against Ukraine, signaling Russian involvement: Report

A cybersecurity firm hired to investigate the Democratic National Committee breach that preceded this year's presidential election said Thursday that the hack's presumed perpetrators, Russia's military intelligence agency, likely used the same malware to target Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield during their ongoing war against pro-Moscow separatists.

December 22, 2016
Estimates run as high as a half-million people at the three-day Woodstock festival at Bethel, N.Y., in August 1969. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Woodstock concert festival site nominated for historic landmark status

The rural New York dairy farm that hosted the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair for a weekend in August 1969 was named to the State Register of Historic Places this week nearly a half-century after 400,000 concertgoers congregated there to participate in one of the era's most iconic moments.

December 21, 2016
Sen. Lindsey Graham.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sen. Lindsey Graham accuses ‘weak’ Obama of letting Russia pull off pre-election hack

President Obama all but blamed his Russian counterpart Friday for orchestrating a campaign of computer hacks directed against the U.S. political system prior to last month's general election, and said he personally told Vladimir Putin to stop the assault in September -- a remark which spurred criticism afterwards from one of the Kremlin's biggest critics on Capitol Hill, Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican.

December 17, 2016