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Cyber tensions and cyberwar. Chinas influence ops against Taiwan apparently backfire. Maze gang goes for doxing. SIM swapping. FBI promises FISA Court it will do better.

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 7:03 p.m.

The FBI reiterates prudent, consensus warnings about a heightened probability of cyberattacks from Iran, but so far nothing beyond credential-spraying battlespace preparation has come to notice. The US Congress mulls the definition of \u201cact of war\u201d in cyberspace. Taiwan\u2019s president is re-elected amid signs that Chinese influence operations backfired on Beijing. The Maze gang doxes a victim. SIM swapping enters a new phase. And the FBI promises the FISA Court it will do better. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on a Washington Post story about college campuses gathering location data on their students.\n For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:\n https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2020/January/CyberWire_2020_01_13.html\n Support our show\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices