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Andrew Blake was a cybersecurity reporter for The Washington Times.

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In this June 6, 2013 file photo, the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md.  (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

NSA maintained email eavesdropping program through loopholes: report

The National Security Agency officially ended an electronic surveillance program in 2011 which had allowed the government to gather email data from American citizens, but NSA spies have been able to continue collecting that information through other endeavors, newly unearthed documents have revealed.

November 20, 2015
Russian warplanes have been hitting rebel-controlled areas including Homs. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

ISIS recruiters set sights on Texas, FBI says

The Islamic State terror group is actively attempting to recruit Texans from the greater Dallas region, as the Lone State State still reels back from an attempted rampage in May, the area's top FBI official said recently.

November 20, 2015
**FILE** Bitcoin tokens are pictured in Sandy, Utah, on April 3, 2013. (Associated Press)

EU look to ban Bitcoin after Paris attacks

Bitcoin could soon be banned in the European Union pending the outcome of a meeting scheduled for Friday in Brussels in the wake of last week's deadly terror attacks in the French capital.

November 19, 2015
**FILE** George Osborne, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, talks prior to the launch of the Economic Survey of the United Kingdom, by Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), at the Treasury in central London on Feb. 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

U.K. ramps up cyber plans amid post-Paris attack panic

The Islamic State terror group hasn't demonstrated the ability yet to wage a cyberattack on the same scale as a full-fledged nation-state, but the fatal events that unfolded last week in Paris, France have forced British authorities to fund the nation's digital endeavors like never before.

November 17, 2015
 John Oliver speaks at Comedy Central's Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

John Oliver on Paris terrorists: ‘F**k these a**holes’

Late night host John Oliver used Sunday's installment of his weekly HBO show to condemn the terrorist attacks in Paris, making use of the premium network's lax restrictions to blast the culprits as "gigantic f**king a**holes."

November 16, 2015