Spying

Two Iranians, Ali Nafarieh and Mohammad Ali Babapour, have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of spying for the U.S. A third unidentified person has been sentenced to death.

"We concluded that disabling the app was the right course of action as this bug could allow someone to listen through another customer's iPhone without consent," Apple said.

China and other foreign nations are trying to steal U.S. technology and research through American higher education, but Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Francis Rooney have introduced a bill to stop them.

Barr said the American public should know what the government was doing before the 2016 election.

"I believe that the FBI is engaged in investigative activity and part of investigative activity includes surveillance activity of different shapes and sizes," Christopher Wray said during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

Trump revealed his "wiretap hunch" during his roughly 45-minute phone call to Sean Hannity that was aired live on Fox News' "Hannity" on Thursday evening.

"I still think he's entitled to that presumption" of spying, former FBI Director James Comey said, "and because I don't know what the heck he's talking about, that's all I can say."

President Donald Trump repeats the attorney general's claim that the federal government spied on his 2016 campaign.

"Domestic spying during a presidential campaign did happen and we have a right to know who participated in it, who authorized it and what their motives were," Carlson said after listing instances where he believes the FBI spied on Trump's presidential campaign.

It's unclear what the attorney general meant by "spying," but one Republican senator suggested that, whether done so rightfully or wrongfully, the Obama administration was involved.

American Paul Whelan, who was arrested in Russia and accused of stealing state secrets, was duped into handling classified information, his attorney said at Moscow court hearing.

In 2011 the U.S. designated Mahan Air a material supporter of terrorism.

In the past Gonen Segev was convicted for forgery, drug smuggling and fraud.

The family of Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen detained in Russia for allegedly spying, said he was a retired Marine who was in Moscow for a wedding.

Although an official said that the Iranian leader's phone would be replaced with a more secure device, he did not reveal further details or suggest who had hacked the phone.

Citing a former unnamed official, The Times explained that "Russia is not believed to be running as sophisticated an influence effort as China, because of Mr. Trump's apparent affinity for President Vladimir V. Putin."

China has been accused of implanting secret microchips into computers to spy on the world's top tech firms and even the U.S. government.

He had been tasked with collecting biographical information on possible espionage recruits.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to prison for five years in September 2016, charged with trying to overthrow the Iranian regime.

The newly arrived Yandex Taxi app is a product of one of Russia's most successful and popular digital companies—and Lithuanian officials are suspicious.

The 74-year-old space scientist is in custody as the investigation continues.

Once downloaded, the programs let operatives use a device's camera and microphone to collect information.

Symantec said the team has been active since at least 2013 and is highly motivated by spying.

A key Obama administration official involved in the Iranian nuclear weapons deal said he may have been the target of a mysterious spy operation.

Alfred Keating was the most senior member of New Zealand's armed forces in the U.S. before his resignation last month.

Facebook: "When you send a photo, our automated systems scan it using photo-matching technology."

Snooping around could now result in a $133,000 fine or one year behind bars in Saudi Arabia.

Does Facebook collect too much data from its users?

A 2010 lawsuit sought to obtain documents on whether the FBI was using educational and "community outreach" to infiltrate Muslim communities.

A former CIA officer allegedly had the real names of agents and operatives in a notebook found by the FBI in 2012.