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Hanan Elatr, the widow of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the apartment of a friend in the Washington area this year. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley for The Washington Post.

December 21, 2021 at 11:10 am

Spyware installed on phone of Jamal Khashoggi’s wife months before his murder

A new forensic analysis shows that a powerful spyware package was sent to the cellphone of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée in the months before his...

FILE – A building at the address listed for NSO Group in Herzliya, Israel, March 20, 2019. The major Israeli cyber-surveillance company, NSO Group, came under heightened scrutiny Sunday, July 18, 2021, after an international alliance of news outlets reported that governments used its software to target journalists, dissidents and opposition politicians. (Corinna Kern/The New York Times) XNYT99 XNYT99

July 18, 2021 at 10:34 am

Governments used private Israeli spyware to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide

Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging...

Nation & World

October 28, 2018 at 6:52 am

How Russian disinformation tactics on Facebook disrupted a young democracy, years before the U.S. election

KIEV, Ukraine - In the spring of 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was desperate for Mark Zuckerberg's help. His government had been urging Facebook to...

Nation & World

August 15, 2013 at 8:37 pm

Artist’s covert clothing resists government surveillance

WASHINGTON — At the Pentagon and CIA, they are known as “countermeasures,” the jargony adaptation of Newton’s Third Law: For every action, there is an...

Business

June 11, 2013 at 6:58 pm

Private contractors play key role in U.S. intelligence work

The unprecedented leak of top-secret documents by National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden raises far-reaching questions about the government’s rush to outsource intelligence work...

Nation & World

May 1, 2013 at 7:20 pm

U.S. role to decrease as Mexico’s drug-war strategy shifts

MEXICO CITY — For the past seven years, Mexico and the United States have forged an unparalleled alliance against Mexico’s drug cartels, one based on...

Nation & World

August 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm

Riding into the Old West

After 10 slow miles on a bumpy dirt road with no other person or dwelling in sight, it crossed my mind that maybe the owners...

July 22, 2010 at 11:40 am

Cash cow for contractors

Close to 30 percent of the work in intelligence agencies is done by contractors at a huge cost to taxpayers.

Nation & World

July 21, 2010 at 3:00 am

Top Secret America | Snoops in our suburbs

Burgeoning complexes of intelligence-gathering federal workers and contractors are transforming many communities. The most notable such change is taking place in and around Fort Meade,...

Nation & World

July 19, 2010 at 3:00 am

Top Secret America | U.S. has built an intel monster, but are we safer?

The system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.