Full doc: US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Report on "Russian Active Measures"; majority (Republican) report; PDF–interesting but many basic errors. e.g, in fact, French Cyber command said no evidence Russia was behind #MacronLeaks

https:// docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180322/108023/HRPT-115-1.pdf

New NSA-funded "Lablets" to Advance the Science of Security and Privacy

The Lablets are starting twenty projects in the following research areas: Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems, Cybersecurity Metrics, Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration, Privacy, Resilient Architectures, Scalability and Composability, Understanding and Accounting for Human Behavior.

> https:// www.nsa.gov/news-features/news-stories/2018/new-lablets-to-advance-sos-and-privacy.shtml

Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization

Fostering collaboration among CPS professionals in academia, government, and industry

> https:// cps-vo.org/

GHOSTMACHINE: The NSA's cloud analytics platform

What is HADOOP?

An open-source software framework for storage and large-scale data processing originally derived from academic papers by Google. This system underlays many of the largest data-processing projects in the world today, including the NSA.

TUSKATTIRE

This is the NSA’s system for cleaning and processing call-related data (DNR or Dialed Number Recognition).

FASCIA limit

The top line indicates the current limit of the amount of data the NSA's FASCIA location database can ingest — about 5 billion records per day.

JUGGERNAUT

The NSA’s signal-processing system for ingesting telephony information, including SS7 signaling — a technical term for the method by which cell-phone networks communicate with each other.

How much data does FASCIA collect?

This indicates that more than 27 terrabytes of location data was collected by the database over a period of about seven months.

OPC/DPC pairs

These refer to the originating and destination points that typically transfer traffic from one provider’s internal network to another’s.

STORMBREW

The code name for a sigad, or signal-collection location, that collects data from 27 OPC/DPC pairs.

FAIRVIEW

This is a sigad that collects data from 860 OPC/DPC pairs.

> https:// www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/world/ghostmachine-the-nsas-cloud-analytics-platform/644/#document/p4/a135362