Biden received sensitive data, briefings from security advisers via his private pseudonym email
While he was vice president, Joe Biden received sensitive communications via his private email accounts created under a fictitious identity, including foreign policy discussions with his national security adviser, schedules of meetings with Cabinet secretaries and a summary of at least one intelligence briefing to President Barack Obama, according to new emails obtained by Just the News.
Report: Internal emails at Alaska Permanent Fund show financial manager raising ethical concerns about fund’s vice chair
A top financial manager with the $80 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. in emails raised concerns about efforts by the fund’s vice chair to set up meetings between Permanent Fund staff and business associates or companies with ties to a company she owns. The emails were first obtained and published on the website Alaska Landmine. Landmine owner Jeff Landfield declined to say who provided the emails to him. Marcus Frampton, the fund’s chief executive officer, asserts in the emails that Ellie Rubenstein, vice chair of the fund’s board of trustees,...
Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google’s April Fools’ Day joke
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools’ Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year, the company said it planned to roll out a “scratch and sniff” feature on its search engine.
Joe Biden's Pseudonym Emails—What We Know as 82,000 Pages Unearthed
President Joe Biden may have sent or received about 82,000 pages of emails through pseudonymous email accounts, according to a filing by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
The court filing was made as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a conservative nonprofit organization, against NARA.
Mayorkas to face tough questions about conducting business using private email
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will face Congress on Tuesday with a host of pressing questions about terrorism and border security — but one senator also plans to challenge him on his use of a private email to conduct government business.
Pentagon Typo Puts Military Communications in Hands of Russian Ally
A typo frequently made by military officials has put millions of sensitive U.S. emails in the hands of an African country allied with Russia.
The U.S. military uses the email domain name ".MIL," which is sometimes misspelled as ".ML," the registered domain for the nation of Mali in West Africa. Emails intended to reach Pentagon officials, some containing diplomatic documents, tax returns, travel information, and other sensitive details, have mistakenly reached email accounts in Mali when the domain is misspelled, according to a report from the Financial Times.
Typo Sends Millions of U.S. Military Emails to Russia Ally Mali
A simple typo has caused millions of U.S. military emails containing extremely sensitive information to be misdirected to Mali—a close ally of Russia. The emails are being sent to Mali’s .ML domain thanks to people incorrectly typing the suffix of all American military email addresses, .MIL. Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch internet entrepreneur contracted to manage Mali’s country domain, told the Financial Times he noticed the issue nearly a decade ago and has made repeated attempts to warn U.S. authorities about it.
Typo reroutes military emails to Russian ally
(NewsNation) — A simple typo could have sent national security information as military emails were mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, and the problem has been going on for a decade.
Millions of emails were misdirected when people used the domain suffix .ml instead of .mil, which is used in all military email addresses. While the military has the .mil domain, .ml belongs to Mali, which has a Russian presence thanks to the mercenary Wagner Group, which has used the country to route supplies to Ukraine.
China Targeted State Department Emails in Microsoft Hack, U.S. Officials Say
Chinese hackers tried to penetrate specific State Department email accounts in the weeks before Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken traveled to Beijing in June, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
Microsoft says China hacked emails; Biden administration investigating the fallout
Microsoft is warning that China-linked cyberattackers hacked customer emails, including government agencies, and the Biden administration is investigating the scope of the damage.
Some 25 organizations are known to be affected by the breaches conducted by the China-based group Storm-0558, according to Charlie Bell, Microsoft’s executive vice president of security.
Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Wednesday the hackers appear to be connected to Chinese intelligence.