CIA leaker gets 40 years for spying and kiddie porn
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Joshua Schulte sent material to Wikileaks

A former CIA software engineer was caged for 40 years on Thursday for nicking top-secret information and having child porn.

CIA software engineer convicted of information theft
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You are not supposed to be stealing stuff from us

A former CIA software engineer faces federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.

CIA admits it has got its claws into cyber currency
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Not quite the conspiracy theory but still rather scary

CIA Director William Burns said the intelligence agency has "a number of different projects focused on cryptocurrency" on the go.

CIA controlled two Swiss encryption firms
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Monday, 30 November 2020 10:37

CIA controlled two Swiss encryption firms


Swiss politicians rather cheesed off at security holes

Swiss politicians are mightly miffed that after it was revealed that a second Swiss encryption company was allegedly used by the CIA and its German counterpart to spy on governments worldwide.

Trump secretly allows the CIA to conduct cyber attacks
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Without being overseen by anyone

The Central Intelligence Agency has been given the power to conduct a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets without any oversight or needing to get approval.

Mistrial in CIA leak case
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Tuesday, 10 March 2020 11:26

Mistrial in CIA leak case


Hung jury

A New York federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday after a jury failed to convict a former CIA programmer accused of passing the agency’s most valuable hacking tools to WikiLeaks.

How the CIA gamed encryption for decades
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Wednesday, 12 February 2020 11:23

How the CIA gamed encryption for decades

 
Bought the main company

For decades the world thought it was safe behind encryption systems which were secretly owned by the CIA, according to a Washington Post report.

CIA bloke faces trial over Wikileaks leak
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Tuesday, 04 February 2020 10:35

CIA bloke faces trial over Wikileaks leak


CIA hacking methods revealed

Manhattan federal prosecutors are poised to open their case Tuesday in the trial of a former software engineer for the Central Intelligence Agency who is charged with handing over a trove of classified information on the spy agency's hacking operations to WikiLeaks.

US weapons ship with CIA backdoors
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Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:34

US weapons ship with CIA backdoors


Hands off our manpads

The CIA has been putting in security flaws into US-made weapons so that they can be disabled if they fall into the wrong hands.

CIA was spying on intel partners
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Friday, 25 August 2017 11:13

CIA was spying on intel partners

 
Targeted the FBI and Homeland security


The FBI and Homeland Security, who relied on the CIA for tech support for biometric data, were being targeted by spyware.