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egraham@morningconsult.com // @edwardjgraham1Edward is a Reporter at Morning Consult covering tech policy.
By Edward Graham Top Stories New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood issued a subpoena to telecoms and advocacy groups and lobbyists as part of an investigation into the source of millions of fake public comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission ahead of its vote to undo the net neutrality rules, according to a person with […]
By Edward Graham Top Stories The Department of Homeland Security is working to identify who is responsible for a rise in attempted cyber attacks on U.S. election infrastructure ahead of next month’s midterm elections, according to an intelligence assessment reviewed by reporters. The assessment, which found attempted hacking efforts as recently as early October, said that […]
By Edward Graham This morning, Morning Consult is launching new sports and entertainment verticals. Subscribe now to get the first editions of the newsletters: Morning Consult Sports | Morning Consult Entertainment Top Stories The Pentagon said a cyber breach of the Defense Department’s travel records compromised the personal information and credit card data of as many […]
By Edward Graham Week in Review Telecom firms deny new report on Chinese surveillance efforts Yossi Appleboum, a security expert working for a major U.S. telecommunications company, said the unidentified firm discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, a revelation that follows an investigative report detailing how Chinese spies allegedly used […]
By Edward Graham Top Stories A new analysis found that the use of Google’s YouTube to spread jihadi terrorist propaganda online is dramatically declining, even as terrorist groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda continue to rely on file-hosting services like Dropbox Inc., Google Drive and Google Photos. The Site Intelligence Group analysis examined more […]
By Edward Graham Top Stories Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle argued during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that Congress should take action to rein in large tech companies, a call that comes following revelations earlier this week that Google exposed private data from hundreds of thousands of users of its Google+ social network. Sen. […]
By Edward Graham Top Stories Google said it filed an appeal of the European Union’s €4.34 billion ($4.97 billion) antitrust fine levied against the tech giant in July for allegedly abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system. Google said it does not plan to ask for so-called interim measures to pause application of the […]
By Edward Graham Top Stories Google said it’s dropping out of the bidding for the Pentagon’s cloud computing contract that’s valued at as much as $10 billion, in part because the project might conflict with the tech giant’s corporate values. The contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, involves moving large amounts […]
By Edward Graham Top Stories Apple Inc.’s vice president for information security, George Stathakopoulos, said in a letter to lawmakers on the House and Senate commerce committees that the tech giant has found no evidence to support the main points of a Bloomberg report last week alleging that China had planted chips inside servers that were […]
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