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Srsly Risky Biz: US intelligence community worried about personal data

2024/8/8
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The 2024 US Counterintelligence Strategy highlights the risk of foreign adversaries using personal data for targeting and blackmail, focusing on the availability of various types of data and the potential for national security threats.

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In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss the US’s National Counterintelligence strategy and that it highlights the risk that foreign intelligence entities will use personal information to target and blackmail individuals.

They also talk about the recent international prisoner swap. Although two cybercriminals were exchanged in the swap, there is still no strong evidence that they were working for the state.