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SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2020, Issue No. 4 March 23, 2020 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/ **     POLICY IMPACTS OF COVID-19 (CRS) POLICY IMPACTS OF COVID-19 (CRS) New resources from the Congressional Research Service add some depth to current news reporting on how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting -- and being addressed by -- US policy. * COVID-19: Cybercrime Opportunities and Law Enforcement Response "Officials have reported criminals using public interest in COVID-19 to their advantage. For instance, the Department of Justice (DOJ) cites “reports of individuals and businesses selling fake cures for COVID-19 online and engaging in other forms of fraud, reports of phishing emails from entities posing as the World Health Organization or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and reports of malware being inserted onto mobile apps designed to track the spread of the virus....

Secrecy News : August 19, 2019 View this email in your browser SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2019, Issue No. 32 August 19, 2019 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     NARA DRIVES GOVT TRANSITION TO ALL-ELECTRONIC RECORDS **     DOMESTIC TERRORISM: SOME CONSIDERATIONS NARA DRIVES GOVT TRANSITION TO ALL-ELECTRONIC RECORDS The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is embarking on an ambitious effort to phase out the acquisition of paper records by 2022 and to transition to all-electronic record keeping. The White House Office of Management and Budget has endorsed the initiative and has directed all federal agencies to adopt exclusively electronic formats for managing permanent records. But the move is generating anxiety about the feasibility of the transition and the possible unanticipated consequences for public access to government records. "The most significan...

U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said Saturday. Two officials told The Associated Press that the strikes were conducted with approval from Trump. A third official confirmed the broad outlines of the strike. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the operation. The cyberattacks — a contingency plan developed over weeks amid escalating tensions — disabled Iranian computer systems that controlled its rocket and missile launchers, the officials said. Two of the officials said the attacks, which specifically targeted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps computer system, were provided as options after Iranian forces blew up two oil tankers earlier this month. The IRGC, which was designated a ...

Secrecy News :  June 12, 2017 View this email in your browser SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2017, Issue No. 43 June 12, 2017 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     MONITORING NUCLEAR TESTING IS GETTING EASIER **     QATAR AND ITS NEIGHBORS, AND MORE FROM CRS MONITORING NUCLEAR TESTING IS GETTING EASIER The ability to detect a clandestine nuclear explosion in order to verify a ban on nuclear testing and to detect violations has improved dramatically in the past two decades. There have been "technological and scientific revolutions in the fields of seismology, acoustics, and radionuclide sciences as they relate to nuclear explosion monitoring," according to  a new report  published by Los Alamos National Laboratory that describes those developments. "This document... reviews the accessible literature for four research areas: source physics (und...