Jun 13 Democrats to seek fresh Senate vote to bar guns for terror suspects By Alan Fram, Associated Press Democrats will try forcing a Senate vote on a proposal making it harder for suspected terrorists and people on government terror watch lists to buy guns and explosives, they said Monday as Congress moved toward a possible partisan fight following… Continue reading
Jun 13 Suspect in Orlando mass shooting acted alone, FBI says By News Desk The suspect in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, appeared to have acted alone and was radicalized, said FBI Director James Comey at a briefing in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Continue reading
May 18 Intel official says hackers have been spying on presidential candidates By Deb Riechmann, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States sees evidence of hackers, possibly working for foreign governments, snooping on the presidential candidates, the nation’s intelligence chief said Wednesday. Continue reading
May 08 Clinton says FBI has not yet 'reached out' to discuss email investigation By Associated Press Hillary Clinton says "no one has reached out to me yet" from the FBI to discuss the investigation into her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Continue reading
Apr 28 FBI: 'Argument can be made' fake AP story broke rules By Raphael Satter, Associated Press WASHINGTON — FBI officials say there's no clear evidence the agency violated its own rules when it posed as The Associated Press to unmask a criminal, according to a report obtained through a public records lawsuit. Continue reading
Apr 27 FBI says it won't disclose how it accessed locked iPhone By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The FBI said Wednesday that it will not publicly disclose the method that allowed it to access a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, saying it lacks enough "technical information" about the software vulnerability that was… Continue reading
Apr 21 FBI head suggests agency paid more than $1M to access iPhone By Associated Press WASHINGTON -- FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event in London on Thursday that the FBI paid more than $1 million to break into the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. Continue reading
Apr 06 Hackers broke into hospitals despite software flaw warnings By Tami Abdollah, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be fixed with a… Continue reading
Apr 05 Judge considers unsealing court file in CIA sex scandal case By Ted Bridis, Associated Press The U.S. judge who oversaw the now-abandoned lawsuit against the federal government over leaks in the investigation that led to the resignation of former CIA director David Petraeus is giving the Justice Department until Friday to ask her to keep… Continue reading
Mar 29 Watch 7:46 FBI cracks the locked iPhone, but legal questions remain unanswered By PBS News Hour A conflict between tech giant Apple and the FBI over the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters came to a moot point when Justice Department officials announced they had cracked the phone’s security without Apple’s help. Gwen… Continue watching