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How Google and Facebook’s 8,000-mile undersea data cable got caught in U.S.-China feud — Fortune

Team Telecom, a government working committee with representatives from the U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense, recommended that the Federal Communications Commission...

U.S. Marshals Service selects BAE for $126 million task order

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, has selected BAE Systems for a $126 million task order.

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...

Department of Justice awards AT&T $984 million EIS technology contract

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has awarded AT&T a task order through the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) technology procurement program.

The trade secret — ProPublica

Firms that promised high-tech ransomware solutions almost always just pay the hackers, writes Renee Dudley and Jeff Kao. Here is the link: https://features.propublica.org/ransomware/ransomware-attack-data-recovery-firms-paying-hackers/