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Obama declines comment on reports of possible removal of NSA chief

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Barack Obama declined on Sunday to comment on media reports that senior defense and intelligence officials in his administration had requested the removal of National Security Agency chief Mike Rogers.
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Publish Date:21/November/2016 | 07:33

Senior U.S. officials recommend removal of NSA director: sources

EghtesadOnline: The heads of the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community have recommended to President Barack Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, be removed from his position, sources familiar with the matter said on Saturday.
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Publish Date:20/November/2016 | 06:52
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Microsoft Faulted Over Ransomware While Shifting Blame to NSA

EghtesadOnline: There's a blame game brewing over who's responsible for the massive cyberattack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers. Microsoft Corp. is pointing its finger at the U.S. government, while some experts say the software giant is accountable too.
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Publish Date:16/May/2017 | 05:43

Hacker documents show NSA tools for breaching global money transfer system

EghtesadOnline: Documents and computer files released by hackers provide a blueprint for how the U.S. National Security Agency likely used weaknesses in commercially available software to gain access to the global system for transferring money between banks, a review of the data showed.
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Publish Date:16/April/2017 | 04:09