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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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