While the CIA mapped terrorist networks in South Asia, a 1995 security assessment began moving the burden of national defense onto private corporations under the guise of technical risk management.
By Marcus Boone ·
While the FBI tracked hackers attacking the Air Force in 1998, Sandia researchers built a system to scrub the gore from security failures, keeping the true scale of nuclear vulnerability in the dark.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Specific methods for protecting the government's most sensitive data remain hidden in a missing manual, though later breaches jeopardized national security for a generation.
By Vera Kessler ·
Federal infrastructure remained fragile after Y2K as Senate investigators used subpoena power to probe whether the government could survive a targeted human cyber attack.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Personal data for a significant portion of the population faced operational risk during a three-part Senate probe whose specific findings now remain hidden.
By Miriam Adler ·