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FBI, Industry Fighting Back Against Cyber Attackers, Agency Official Says

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

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During the past year the FBI has changed its tactics in conducting cyber operations from a more passive approach that entails the surveillance of intruders inside of networks being attacked to a more active approach that aims to disrupt these attacks, a agency official told Congress yesterday. Cyber operations used to entail observing adversaries collecting information on networks and trying to understand their intentions while rarely trying to “disrupt them as we might in a counter-terrorism case,” Richard McFeely, executive…

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Senior GOP HASC Members Wittman, Turner Ousted Amid Dems’ Blue Wave

Two senior Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, including a potential frontrunner for the panel’s top GOP role, have officially lost their reelection bids. Reps. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) and […]

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Dems’ Big Night Set To Reshape Top Defense Committee Spots, As Key GOP’ers Knocked Off

Democrats’ sweeping victories in Tuesday’s midterms, taking back control of the House and Senate, are set to reshape key spots atop defense committees, to include House Armed Services panels and […]

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As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

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