In a newspaper interview published in South Korea on Wednesday, Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono indicated Tokyo's preference to continue a bilateral accord on sharing military intelligence with Seoul that is set to be renewed next month. Kono's written interview, which was published by the ...
North Korea claims Australian student was detained and deported for spying
North Korea has said that an Australian student who it detained for a week had spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda and engaged in spying by providing photos and other materials to news outlets with critical views toward the North. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said ...
Trump move to ease Huawei sanctions after branding firm a security threat sparks anger and confusion
The U.S. trade agreement with China easing sanctions on Huawei has prompted a backlash from lawmakers over national security concerns amid confusion over how the deal may impact the Chinese tech giant. In the weekend agreement with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, U.S. President Donald ...
Moscow presses U.S. to swap Russian pilot for American held in Russia
A senior official in Moscow urged the U.S. to consider swapping a jailed Russian pilot convicted of drug smuggling for its own citizens detained in Russia, news services reported. Konstantin Yaroshenko could be exchanged for "an American or Americans who are imprisoned" in Russia, though ...
An open-source investigation has found that a top Russian military intelligence officer coordinated last year's Salisbury chemical attack from a London hideout using his phone and a few messaging apps. The award-winning website Bellingcat said late Friday that its joint analysis with the BBC helps ...
Western spies hacked 'Russia's Google' to spy on accounts, sources say
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex late last year and deployed a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts, four people with knowledge of the matter said. The malware, called Regin, is known ...
A peek at the West's failed fight against China's 'Cloud Hopper' hackers
Hacked by suspected Chinese cyberspies five times from 2014 to 2017, security staffers at the Swedish telecommunications equipment giant Ericsson took to naming their response efforts after different types of wine. "Pinot Noir" began in September 2016. After repelling attacks a year earlier, Ericsson discovered ...
Documents show NSA improperly collected call records months after saying it had stopped
Documents released Wednesday show the National Security Agency improperly collected phone records four months after it said it had fixed technical problems that caused a similar earlier collection of unauthorized and inaccurate data that violated federal law. The internal documents obtained by the American Civil ...
Science suffers collateral damage as U.S.-China tensions rise
A rise in U.S. visa denials for Chinese academics and intensified scrutiny of alleged links to Beijing over fears of potential espionage are having a chilling effect on long-standing research collaboration, researchers say. American and Chinese scientists have co-authored thousands of papers each year, far ...
Pakistan removes ISI spy agency chief after eight months and appoints hard-liner
Pakistan on Sunday appointed a hard-liner general as new chief of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, replacing the agency's current head, Lt. Gen. Asim Munir, after only eight months on the job. Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, a former senior ISI figure, was appointed director ...
Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into Washington's political scene. She boasted a job at a top think tank and a who's-who network of pundits and experts, from the centrist Brookings Institution to the right-wing Heritage Foundation. She was connected to a deputy assistant secretary ...
U.S. submits extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
The United States government has formally submitted an extradition request to the United Kingdom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange , a U.S. official said Tuesday. Assange faces an 18-count indictment that accuses him of soliciting and publishing classified information and of conspiring with former Army ...
