by Jim Heath | Feb 28, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who survived a chemical poisoning last year that he called a Kremlin attempt to kill him, has begun serving his two-and-a-half-year sentence at a notorious penal camp. Navalny, who was removed from his Moscow jail cell...
by Jim Heath | Jan 31, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin
Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. More than 5,100 people were...
by Jim Heath | Jan 5, 2021 | Cyber Security, Headlines, Putin
The U.S. intelligence community stated today that Russia is behind a major and ongoing series of cyberhacks of federal government agencies — its first official indication of blame. WAPO: The statement, issued jointly by four agencies in a special task force, counters...
by Jim Heath | Dec 22, 2020 | Cyber Security, Headlines, Joe Biden
President-elect Joe Biden lashed out at Donald Trump over a major hack of U.S. government agencies and companies, saying the president isn’t taking it seriously enough, while vowing to strengthen the nation’s cyberdefenses. Bloomberg: Biden blamed the Trump...
by Jim Heath | Dec 18, 2020 | Cyber Security, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin, Trump
A massive suspected Russian hacking campaign that compromised broad swathes of the federal government and private sector is being called a ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ by members of both political parties. The sprawling attack, which went undetected for nearly...
