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Guidehouse awarded five-year contract to enhance FBI’s IT operations

Guidehouse has been chosen by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for a five-year contract to bolster the IT operations of the FBI’s Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO).

FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year — The Register

The FBI misused controversial surveillance powers more than 278,000 times between 2020 and early 2021, writes Jessica Lyons Hardcastle.

Here’s the FBI’s Internal Guide for Getting Data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon — Vice

A newly obtained document written by the FBI lays out in unusually granular detail how it and other law enforcement agencies can obtain location...

Biden announces investigation into international ransomware attack — The Guardian

Joe Biden said on Saturday he had directed US intelligence agencies to investigate a sophisticated ransomware attack, according to the report. Here is the link:...

A blockchain expert is accused of helping North Korea’s leaders. But what would they want from him? — Technology Review

Virgil Griffith must have known there was a chance that his decision to attend a cryptocurrency conference in North Korea was going to land...