national security agency

As you move through the ordinary activities of your everyday life, you're leaving an electronic trail rich in data about your whereabouts, your interests and your relationships. That's information of keen interest — and not only to marketers. As recent revelations about two National Security Agency surveillance programs show, at least some of those digital details are being collected and analyzed by the government.

David Simon, the former Baltimore Sun crime reporter and creator of the television show The Wire, has weighed in reports of data collection efforts by the National Security Agency, asking, what's the fuss?Creator of The Wire describes 1980s data collection by Baltimore police in blog post

Latest evidence of NSA domestic surveillance is frightening

Obama administration and a bipartisan group of lawmakers defended the program as both legal and necessary.

The government's power to secretly collect millions of phone records from telecom companies without their customers' knowledge suggests the laws protecting privacy are a lot less robust that most people think

Legislation to combat foreign and domestic hackers is necessary, but it need not come with a license for the government to collect personal information

The members of the Harford County Board of Education approved a measure Monday to allow middle school students to take world language courses for high school credit

A new computing facility at the National Security Agency will help the country better defend against cyber attacks, agency officials and members of Congress said Monday.

Under sunny skies, a crowd approaching 10,000 partied and watched the 103rd running of the My Lady's Manor Steeplechase on Saturday in Monkton and saw an electrifying victory in the featured race.

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BWTech Research and Technology park at UMBC hosts a Cyber Security business incubator which is now full and preparing to expand

Bill Stoner sent up the Greater Laurel Literacy Center in 1987; nearly 26 years later, he and his small team of volunteers are still helping adults in the Laurel area learn to read.

State should unite behind effort to relocate agency from D.C. to Prince George's

Lawmakers from Virginia pressed a House subcommittee on Wednesday to forgo a requirement included in a Senate resolution they said unfairly advantages Maryland as the two states compete to land a possible new FBI headquarters.

She was an underdog in a 16-candidate race for county executive, but county boss Laura Neuman has always been the kind to bet big on herself.

General Services Administration officials said Wednesday they received nearly three dozen responses to a request for ideas for a new FBI headquarters, a potentially lucrative development that Maryland leaders hope to bring to Prince George's County.

Howard County business officials still are learning how the federal sequestration will affect the county's economy, but once Congress missed its March 1 deadline for an agreement avoiding the cuts, one local business already was feeling the effects.

Cyber security jobs going begging?

Midshipmen at the Naval Academy could spend less time training at sea. Some gates into Fort Meade could be shut down. And routine maintenance at military installations across the state could be delayed, under federal budget cuts set to begin Friday.

Maryland has 19,413 openings for computer security professionals, most of them in Baltimore — let's start training for these jobs

With less than a week to go until the federal government's March 1 deadline to reach an agreement avoiding a set of spending cuts known as sequestration, the local business community is in the dark about its potential impact.

O'Malley warns of 'job-killing' sequester cuts

Local efforts to help government contractors navigate the complex world of federal procurement are looking particularly relevant these days with big budget cuts looming.

Commanders at Fort Meade are cracking down on synthetic marijuana, a cheap, widely available and sometimes dangerous designer drug that has been linked to suicides and homicides.

Baltimore is a hotbed of cybersecurity jobs, with more than 13,000 job postings last October alone, according to a report funded by the Abell Foundation.

Hours before a midnight deadline would have ushered in an enormous tax hike on ordinary Americans, the White House reached a tentative deal with Congress on Monday to raise taxes on the wealthiest households while putting off tougher spending decisions for another battle in a couple of months.

School that opened in 2001 one of six honored in state

Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cyber security plays in the state's economy.

Eleven people and the state ACLU sued Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold Wednesday, contending the county illegally compiled files about citizens on Leopold's alleged "enemies list," then refused to release the information collected.

The federal government began the process of site selection for a new FBI headquarters Monday. Maryland is competing with Virginia and Washington for the project.

Looming federal budget cuts make a whole lot of Marylanders nervous because a whole lot of Maryland depends on Uncle Sam for a paycheck — directly or indirectly.

Fort Meade's rapid growth in the last few years has made it the state's largest employer, but getting a foot in the door — or, rather, inside the guarded fence line — can be daunting. Residents crowded into a local high school for tips from Meade experts.

Tenable Network Security Inc. has quietly built a booming business selling network security products and services to the U.S. government and companies around the world. It's profitable and has thousands of clients.

A team of students from Reservoir and Centennial high schools took second place last week at the second annual Maryland Cyber Challenge and Competition

Dr. Alice Heisler Hissey, former medical director of the University of Maryland Medical Center's Behavioral Pediatric Clinic, died Oct. 18 of pancreatic cancer at her Columbia home. She was 75.