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13 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The NSA says it recently discovered "a series of critical vulnerabilities" in Microsoft Exchange and disclosed them to Microsoft, which today released a patch.
"NSA values partnership in the cybersecurity community," an NSA spokesperson said. "We are continuing the partnership by urging application of the patches immediately."
New @NSACyber Director @RGB_Lights: "Cybersecurity is national security. Network defenders now have the knowledge needed to act, but so do adversaries and malicious cyber actors. Don't give them the opportunity to exploit this vulnerability on your system."
.@Microsoft said it had "not seen the vulnerabilities used in attacks" against its customers but urged prompt patching "given recent adversary focus on Exchange"

msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/04/13/apr…
Statement from Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber & Emerging Tech Anne Neuberger says U.S. federal agencies required to “immediately” patch Exchange servers Image
Disclosing software flaws is a relatively new practice for the NSA, which in the past would collect and keep secret vulnerabilities for its own use in intelligence gathering -- cbsnews.com/news/nsa-micro…

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14 Apr
Happening now: Leaders of ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA and FBI offer public testimony at
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Livestream: intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-…
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A senior administration official said this is not a conditions-based approach, telling @margbrennan POTUS has deemed that to be "a recipe for staying in Afghanistan forever." United States will remove its forces from Afghanistan "before September 11," SAO said.
The official said the decision is also reflective of the need to address a "global threat picture as it exists today, not as it was two decades ago."
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13 Apr
New: The U.S. intelligence community is warning in its Annual Threat Assessment of a “diverse array” of global threats that could further destabilize a world shaken by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, technological change and interstate competition:

dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
The 27pg document contains the collective view of the country’s 18 intel agencies; it said “the potential for cascading events in an increasingly interconnected & mobile world” would create new challenges, as adversaries jockey for influence & climate change heightens instability
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7 Apr
Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber & Emerging Tech Anne Neuberger said at @CFR_org that the Biden administration will launch an effort to secure control systems across the country "because of the significant consequences if they fail, or if they're degraded"
Neuberger: "We picked control systems because those are the systems that control water systems, power systems, chemical systems across the US, and we're seeking to have visibility on those networks to detect anomalous cyber behavior and block anomalous cyber behavior." (cont'd)
Neuberger: "Today we cannot trust those systems, because we don't have visibility into those systems, and we need the visibility of those systems because of the significant consequences if they fail, or if they're degraded."
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5 Apr
.@SecBlinken said the Biden-Harris administration was "exploring options" to share more resources - including vaccines - to combat COVID-19 in other countries, and that he was appointing a new official to oversee the global effort.
Blinken said the administration has had as its "main focus" getting vaccines to Americans, but "soon the US will need to step up our work and rise to the occasion worldwide."
"This pandemic won’t end at home until it ends worldwide," he said.

Blinken said the U.S. had received requests from other countries -- some with "growing desperation" -- for help. "We hear you, and I promise we're moving as fast as possible," he said.
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17 Mar
Declassified US intel assessment of 2020 election shows Russia's foreign influence playbook a) was only marginally changed; b) was adopted selectively by other adversaries & challengers; c) will continue being used unless the cost/benefit calculus changes

dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
A few things:

The classified version of this assessment was completed and given to USG stakeholders on January 7, 2021; it draws from information made available to the IC during the Trump administration
It includes guidance on election "influence" versus "interference," two terms that had been used interchangeably and to at times confusing effect:
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