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Former CIA Chief: Oil and Gas Companies Most Exposed to Cyber Threats

Speaking at the IHS CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and the NSA, told an audience that energy companies, particularly those from the oil and gas sector, were exposed to serious threats from cyberspace. According to fuelFire, Hayden highlighted the fact that the Inter...

11 March 2013
15:41 GMT

CIA Agent Who Found Bin Laden in Hot Water at Work

The unidentified female operative who allegedly tracked down and brought down Al Qaeda's leader is having trouble with other CIA agents. According to the Washington Post, she joined the Agency before 9/11 and worked as a targeter in Islamabad, Pakistan. Her job was recruiting assets, who could be turned into ag...

11 December 2012
10:47 GMT

“I Screwed Up Royally,” General Petraeus Writes to a Friend

Former CIA Director David Petraeus writes close friend and fellow army man Brig Gen Shelton about the affair with Paula Broadwell and how it has affected his marriage. As you can read in the mock-up letter above, put together by the Daily Mail, he seems to be apologetic and full of regret. Click on the image to read...

30 November 2012
02:52 GMT

Jill Kelley Defends Herself, Claims She Is the Victim in the Petraeus Scandal

The world is yet to see the end of the Petraeus scandal, as Jill Kelley, the other “other woman” involved in it fights back. Jill Kelley has been dubbed by media outlets the “Tampa Kardashian,” befriending top army brass, while holding dinner parties with dignitaries, together with her husban...

29 November 2012
07:20 GMT

CIA Investigates Gen. Petraeus over Leaking Information to Broadwell

CIA officials announced starting an “exploratory” investigation into former Director Petraeus' affair with Paula Broadwell, which might have led to disclosure of classified information. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dubs this a way to improve ethics standards “that keep the military well led...

16 November 2012
08:45 GMT

CIA Chief Used al-Qaida Technique to Conceal Communications with Mistress

Former CIA Director David Petraeus utilized a clever technique to hide his online communications with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, who was, apparently, also his mistress. To ensure that their messages couldn’t be intercepted, they didn’t sent messages to one another. Instead, they shared a Gmail acco...

15 November 2012
03:50 GMT

FBI Investigates David Petraeus' Mistress for Accessing His Email

Reports reveal that Paula Broadwell is the infamous “other woman” that led to the CIA director's demise. Petraeus is not the only one taking the heat on this matter, as Broadwell is now facing an investigation, following her alleged break into the director's email account. General David Petraeu...

10 November 2012
07:17 GMT

Microsoft’s Map Service Reveals CIA’s Secret Bin Laden Training Facility

Satellite imagery tools have been around for a while (especially Google’s) and state authorities from all over the world closely worked with parent companies to censor specific images that aren’t supposed to be seen by everyone. Bing’s satellite map service however apparently revealed what seems to...

11 October 2012
03:46 GMT

Hackers Explain Why They Attacked Visa and CIA Sites (Exclusive)

Most internauts may have noticed that the sites of The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks have been disrupted as a result of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, but those aren’t the only attacks launched recently. UGNazi hackers have also been up to their usual shenanigans, sending large numbers of pac...

17 May 2012
04:18 GMT

UK Supreme Court and CIA Sites Taken Offline by Anonymous

As they promised, hacktivists launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on the site of the UK Supreme Court at the end of last week. Another target of the same operation was the website of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “#TANGODOWN for those who have just joined us supremecourt.gov.uk &...

7 May 2012
07:31 GMT

UGNazi Hackers Launch DDOS Attacks on CIA, DOJ Sites to Protest CISPA

When it comes to online protests, especially the ones in which distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks are involved, the sites of the Central Intelligence Agency (cia.gov), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the one of the Department of Justice (justice.gov) often seem to be the favorite targets. Today...

24 April 2012
02:55 GMT

Hackers Launch DDOS Attacks on CIA and DOD Sites

Anonymous hackers and their supporters have launched massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the official site of the Central Intelligence Agency (cia.gov) and the one of the US Department of Justice (DOD - justice.gov). According to one of the hackers that participated in the attacks, the webs...

16 April 2012
03:31 GMT

FBI Friday: Anonymous Takes Down CIA Site

Even though it was the day in which Anonymous hacktivists usually attack the Federal Bureau of Investigations, this Friday the hackers targeted the official site of the Central Intelligence Agency (cia.gov). After not long ago they temporarily shut down the website of the Department of Homeland Security, Anonymous d...

11 February 2012
05:33 GMT

CIA and NASA Websites Vulnerable to XSS Attacks, Hacker Proves

The official websites belonging to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) were found to contain serious cross-site scripting flaws by a hacker called D35M0nd142. “First of all, this attack did not have any purpose or malicious damage. I just wanted to...

28 December 2011
10:27 GMT

CIA Tries to Keep Climate Change Classified

In 2009, CIA started taking care of the environment. Or at least, this seems to be the idea they wanted to feed the public opinion with, after they showcased The Center on Climate Change and National Security. The newly-born project had the specific goal of handling environmental key-issues such as climate change eff...

24 October 2011
03:16 GMT

LulzSec Hits CIA Website, Laughs about It

The notorious hacking outfit LulzSec continues to taunt the U.S. government by attacking cia.gov days after it DDoSed the Senate's website.As usual, there doesn't seem to be any specific reason for the attack except for the usual lulz. For those who are not familiar with Anonymous-related memes, "lulz" is t...

16 June 2011
04:44 GMT

MapQuest Atlas, an Interesting Tool with Data from the CIA

MapQuest has launched a rather interesting new tool dubbed MapQuest Atlas. As you've probably guessed, the new website is aimed at students and teachers and wants to be a simple tool for discovering interesting facts and tidbits about the countries and regions of the world. "[T]oday we are introducing Atlas &mda...

30 September 2010
10:11 GMT

Wikileaks Releases CIA Document to Warn Its Enemies

Like it promised yesterday, Wikileaks has published a classified CIA document on the site. The document itself is interesting but hardly as controversial as some of the site's previous leaks. It's not the document that's important, but the message it sends, Wikileaks will not be stopped and will not bo...

26 August 2010
06:37 GMT

Alpha Protocol - The Bourne Invisibility

In many of the role-playing games of old, as players progressed through the story, they got stronger and stronger, until they arrived at a point where they would become overpowered and would easily overcome the challenges presented before them. It was true for Morrowind, it was true for Baldur's Gate and it is ...

8 June 2010
18:31 GMT

Careful What You Do in WoW

There's that guy in World of Warcraft who talks about the impending end. And there are some guys in City of Heroes/City of Villains talking about that plot focused on ending the world. Oh, and there are the shady figures in Tabula Rasa talking about invasion and such.Where does the game end and where does realit...

25 February 2008
14:31 GMT

CIA and FBI Go Online to Edit Wikipedia

WikiScanner, an advanced software solution, revealed that several CIA and FBI computers were connected to the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia and edited some of the articles. Although the representatives of the two bureaus refuse to confirm it, the program created by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in Ne...

17 August 2007
02:57 GMT


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