Tag: FBI

This Day, That Year – January 22

This day in history we feature the Central Intelligence Agency. A foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States was created on this day in 1946. Trivia – Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency, known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing […]

FBI: Wave of ‘cyber-extortions’ hit US hospitals, COVID efforts may be at risk

Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking. In a joint alert Wednesday, the FBI and two federal agencies warned that they had “credible information of […]

Iran, Russia foul play afoot at Election 2020, says U.S. intel

U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that Russia and Iran have both tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election. Ratcliffe made the announcements at a hastily arranged news conference that also included FBI Director Chris Wray. The announcement two weeks before the election showed the level of alarm among top […]

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