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A man accused of stealing a car in Baltimore and then fleeing from police across the grounds of Fort Meade before hiding overnight in an NSA storm drain now faces federal charges.

From Oct. 1st through Dec. 23rd of last year, I accessed the homes of the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the president's helicopters with a revoked military access card. I was there on official business and unaware my card shouldn't have worked, but no one else knew that. I could just as easily have been someone with terroristic or murderous intentions, waived through with barely a thought.

Change comes to the NSA

The National Security Agency is about to launch its most ambitious reorganization in years, bringing together teams charged with gathering intelligence around the world with those tasked with defending U.S. secrets.

More than two years after Mr. Snowden's leaks, not one NSA employee, affiliate or senior leader has been indicted, tried or convicted with a crime related to violating the FISA. Mr. Snowden, however, has been charged with two felonies under the Espionage Act, and has been praised by members of the Islamic State for teaching them how to avoid U.S. surveillance.

The National Security Agency is scheduled to end its dragnet collection of records about Americans' phone calls Saturday night — the most significant change in U.S. intelligence-gathering since Edward Snowden revealed details of the agency's programs two years ago.

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Suddenly, it's looking lucrative for Maryland cyber firms to seek out businesses willing to spend a lot to protect their and their customers' sensitive data.

A federal judge threw out Friday a lawsuit filed by the publisher of Wikipedia over allegations that the National Security Agency was spying on its users, ruling that the plaintiffs did not have enough information about the agency operates to plausibly make their claim in court.

The NSA spends years training some of the nation's brightest minds in cutting-edge skills — only to watch them take those skills to more lucrative jobs in the private sector.

Fort Meade has returned to normal operations after the carjacking suspect responsible for a heightened security alert and the closure of several schools in the surrounding area was apprehended Thursday, police said.

The publisher of Wikipedia fought to keep its challenge to alleged National Security Agency snooping on its users alive Friday, with lawyers arguing that it is time for federal courts to take another look at how the government gathers in information traveling across the Internet.

As the United States faces growing threats from foreign hackers, Adm. Michael S. Rogers told a Senate committee Thursday that he is preparing to lead the NSA through its first major reorganization in more than a decade.

The controversial National Security Agency program to collect data on millions of Americans' phone calls is on hold while lawmakers debate reauthorization. But politicians, officials and analysts differ on the impact of the lapse.

Congress gave final approval Tuesday to the most sweeping rollback of government surveillance powers in the post-Sept. 11-era, clearing the way for a new program that bans the National Security Agency from collecting and storing Americans' telephone dialing records.

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul, who captured national attention last week by helping to scuttle legislation reauthorizing bulk data collection by the National Security Agency, will speak to Baltimore County Republicans next month.

The USA Freedom Act will protect our security and privacy.

The Senate has an opportunity to rein in the NSA's secret spying program

The commander responsible for safety at military bases in the United States has increased the security level of facilities across the country in response to growing worries that bases could be the target of an attack.

Congress must amend the U.S. Patriot Act to protect Americans' privacy rights

It will be the first major update to the Defense Department's strategy for cyber operations in four years, in which time computer security has become a more visible issue after major attacks on American businesses including Sony Picture Entertainment late last year.

In a Columbia office with a Jolly Roger hanging from the ceiling and internet cables sprouting madly from the desks, a team of National Security Agency hackers was trying Wednesday to take down networks set up by military cadets.

Andy Leimer, dazzled by the sun as he made his way south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway one day this year, made a wrong turn into the restricted campus of the National Security Agency. The ordeal cost him more than $800. It could have been worse.

Federal authorities on Tuesday identified the driver killed while trying to ram a stolen SUV through a security checkpoint at the National Security Agency headquarters as a Baltimore resident with a criminal history for robbery and prostitution.

A decade after Sept. 11, 2001, Congress had become deeply divided over the sweeping surveillance powers it had granted the government in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. So when it came time to reauthorize the legislation, lawmakers kept the intelligence community on what they imagined was a short leash: a four-year extension.

The ACLU lawsuit against the NSA this week seeks to establish a balance between security and privacy but the outcomes of previous such cases are not encouraging

A 35-year-old accused in a string of random shootings in the Baltimore-Washington region told police he was "hearing voices" that made him do it, court records show.

The shots fired in recent days at the NSA headquarters and other seemingly random targets across the Baltimore-Washington suburbs brought back images of another, more deadly shooting rampage — by two snipers who left a trail of bodies across the region in the fall of 2002

A gunman believed responsible for a string of recent shootings in public areas — including one at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade — will be charged with attempted first-degree murder and other offenses, police said Wednesday.

A gunman believed responsible for a string of recent shootings in public areas — including one at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade — will be charged with attempted first-degree murder and other offenses, police said Wednesday.

Onstage at a major computer security summit at Stanford University, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday to make it easier for private companies to dip into the government's deep reservoirs of data on cyberattacks.

It was a typical winter morning on the Twitter feed of Eastern Shore television station WBOC: a stream of messages about snowfall and a reminder to download the station's weather app for the latest updates.

A Republican Senate would not end political gridlock in Washington but spells trouble for progressive causes from health care reform to combating climate change

It's hard to avoid concluding that the confidentiality clause in Baltimore police brutality settlements is meant to protect those who govern the city, rather than those in whose name the city is governed. And in this regard — as, alas, in so many others — Baltimore embodies in an acute form one of the country's broader failures: the lack of accountability among our leaders for their extensive misbehavior.

Holder's legacy is one of contempt for the law

Rachel Marsden asks whether we would recognize the start of another world war, or if it would only be evident in hindsight.

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Democratic County Executive candidate Courtney Watson has released an economic platform that focuses on expanding the county¿s investment in cyber security training and business development.

The officials who are responsible for safeguarding the nation's intelligence secrets are trying to figure out how to better vet millions of employees and contractors with security clearances, after auditors found that some of those workers owed more than three-quarters of a billion dollars in unpaid taxes.

Hiring by Maryland's largest employer — the federal government — has fallen by more than 40 percent nationally over four years, and the state's jobs market is feeling the pain.

The Ravens terminated the contract of star running back Ray Rice on Monday afternoon, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him indefinitely, hours after TMZ Sports released the video of him knocking his then fiancee, Janay Palmer, unconscious in an Atlantic City, N.J., casino elevator.

A church that grew up with Maryland City will celebrate its golden anniversary in a big way on Sept. 20. Parishioners and clergy at Resurrection of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church have planned an afternoon Mass followed by a semi-formal gala at Laurel Park that evening.

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman will be honored for his administration's efforts to improve water quality in the county, officials announced last week.

Explanations of spy agency's secret surveillance practices don't hold up to closer inspection