The deal would lay out a 135-day timetable for drawing down American troop strength in Afghanistan from about 13,000 to 8,600; United States officials had indicated that they planned to make the reduction with or without an agreement in place. It calls for a complete withdrawal within three to five years.
It also calls for the start of negotiations between the government in Kabul and the Taliban — something the Taliban has long refused — on a long-term power-sharing settlement. Afghan leaders have been frustrated by the United States’ acceding to the Taliban’s demand that negotiations, held over the past year in Doha, Qatar, exclude the government, even as deadly violence continued. …Cyberscoop - Energy Department shakes up cyber leadership with appointment of ex-NSA official -
The leadership shakeup at DOE comes as private-sector analysts warn that a growing number of hacking groups have shown an interest in probing energy infrastructure. DOE officials regularly participate in exercises with U.S. utilities to drill for such threats.Endgadget - It doesn’t matter if China hacked Equifax -
It was a message of PR reprieve for the skinsuits at Equifax, who spend their life cycles profiting from tracking and trading our personal and financial information (and we're powerless to stop them). Especially now as we're seeing reports about how four Chinese hackers "took down Equifax."
That sure sounds a lot better (for them) than the fact that Equifax's security failures were so bad for so long that a breach was inevitable. One month after Equifax admitted the breach, press and pundits remarked on the multitude of issues saying it was probable "that more than one group of hackers broke into the company."BBC - Huawei labels US call intercept claims as 'utter nonsense' -
John Suffolk, Huawei's global cyber-security and privacy officer, told reporters the idea that Huawei had access to the special "lawful intercept" equipment was completely untrue - and that the company did not even make such devices.
"We have no access to this equipment, we don't know what call or information is being intercepted, we don't know when it is intercepted. All we do is provide one side of the box which is blind to what's happening on the other side of the box," he saidDicebreaker - That time the US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook -
The strangest thing about this story isn't that government employees couldn't tell the difference between a work of science fiction and reality, but that they'd only confiscated it opportunistically. Although the warrant was sealed at the time, leaving everyone to assume that GURPS Cyberpunk was the object of the raid, the truth is even odder.
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The idea that a forum owned by an RPG publisher was worth being shut down by the Secret Service because they might republish a stolen text file full of publicly-available information is obviously laughable, and yet that's what happened. When the agents didn't find that file on the premises of Steve Jackson Games, they picked up a book about computers with Blankenship’s name on it and took that instead.Security Boulevard - The Washington State Privacy Act Could Be More Comprehensive Than the CCPA -
What’s notable about the WPA is the ripple effects it could create down businesses’ supply chains: The WPA not only stipulates data protection responsibilities for organizations which determine the purposes and means of data processing (“controller”), it also requires these organizations to verify that their vendors (“data processor”) have sufficient data protection mechanisms in place to process personal data safely.Washington Post - Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking -
And while maps are meant to bring order to the world, the Silicon Valley firm’s decision-making on maps is often shrouded in secrecy, even to some of those who work to shape its digital atlases every day. It is influenced not just by history and local laws, but also the shifting whims of diplomats, policymakers and its own executives, say people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to discuss internal processes.
BBC - Huawei row: Australian MPs cancel UK trip amid tensions over leak -
Lawmakers from the intelligence and security committee had been expected to travel to the UK next month.
But the trip has been postponed amid reports of a diplomatic rift.
The decision follows a reported complaint from the UK over leaked details of a high-level meeting where Huawei was discussed.
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