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Russia strongly denied that military intelligence hackers tried to infiltrate into US voting systems. (AFP)
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In this posed picture photograph, a woman points to the website of the NHS: East and North Hertfordshire notifying users of a problem in its network, in London on May 12, 2017. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
Global Cyberattack Disrupts Britain’s Health System
A fast-moving wave of cyberattacks, apparently exploiting a flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency, have disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries. The attacks came in the form of ransomware,...Caption:
In this image released by Radius TWC, Edward Snowden (L) appears with Glenn Greenwald in a scene from ‘Citizenfour,’ a documentary that intimately captures Snowden during his leak of NSA documents. (AP Photo/Radius TWC)
Review: Citizenfour
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A slim, but innocuous-looking man with ashen skin and dark circles under his eyes studies himself in the mirror of his Hong Kong hotel room, where he has been hiding out for over a week. The TV screen by him is playing the day’s leading world...Caption:
US President Barack Obama speaks about the National Security Agency (NSA) and intelligence agencies surveillance techniques at the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, January 17, 2014. Obama trimmed the powers of the secretive US eavesdropping agency Friday by calling for new privacy safeguards, but allowed bulk phone data sweeps to continue as an anti-terror tool. In a long-awaited speech outlining changes to programs exposed by Edward Snowden, Obama also said he had halted National Security Agency (NSA) spy taps targeting friendly world leaders. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB