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Switzerland Investigating Alleged CIA, German Front Company
2020-02-11 19:34

Swiss authorities said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into allegations a Zug, Switzerland-based maker of encryption devices was a front operated by the CIA and West German intelligence that enabled them to break the codes of the countries that used their products. A joint investigation published Tuesday by Germany's ZDF public broadcaster and The Washington Post based on documents from the CIA and Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency revealed that Crypto AG made millions of dollars for the two agencies, while providing them with access to the encrypted communications of more than 120 countries for decades.

Crypto AG Was Owned by the CIA
2020-02-11 16:42

You appear to be a knowledgable individual, however I just think is a disservice to humanity to iterate Donald Rumsfelds saying about unknown unknowns, and so to clarify, it was you that brought along the saying about 'known knows', 'unknowns knowns' and 'unknown unknowns'. A danger here imo, in having this exclusive way of describing things, in thinking that the very things projected in a theory, are real, such that doubts or questions about their existence becomes something of an impossibility because they are not only speculatively assumed, but they presumably become something like an existential, like an tangible emotion or required thinking, a very powerful influencing moment in thinking, because of how such actualizes your understanding of the world, even when confronted with say objections.

Trial Begins for Ex-CIA Worker Charged With Leaking Secrets
2020-02-05 13:28

A prosecutor told a jury at the opening of an espionage trial Tuesday that an angry CIA employee got his vengeance by committing the agency's biggest leak of classified information ever, but a defense lawyer said her client was innocent. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Denton pointed at 30-year-old Joshua Adam Schulte in a Manhattan courtroom as he blamed him for the massive leak of secrets that was published by WikiLeaks in March 2017.

Saudi King Hosts CIA Chief for Talks
2019-11-07 16:00

Saudi Arabia's King Salman hosted the Central Intelligence Agency's director Thursday, state media said, after three people were charged in the US with spying on Twitter users critical of the...

Spain Security Firm Probed 'for Spying on Assange for CIA'
2019-09-30 12:38

A Spanish private security firm, which is under investigation in Madrid, spied on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of the CIA while he was inside the Ecudoran embassy in London, El Pais...

Protip: No, the CIA will not call off a pedophilia probe into your life in exchange for Bitcoin
2019-06-10 06:08

Kaspersky warns of fake 'dirty agent' scam circulating Fraudsters are posing as CIA investigators gone rogue in emails to marks, offering to take bribes to drop bogus investigations into the...

CIA traitor spy thrown in the clink for selling secrets to China. Stack Overflow, TeamViewer admit: We were hacked...
2019-05-18 10:01

...And more from the world of infosec this week Roundup Here's a quick catch-up of all things infosec beyond what we've already reported this week.…

Remember those stolen CIA hacking tools leaked online by the Shadow Brokers? The Chinese had them a year before
2019-05-07 19:39

Or so claims Symantec Months before CIA-built hacking tools were leaked to the public by a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, the exploit code was apparently being used by Chinese state...

Client-attorney privilege? Not when you're accused of leaking Vault 7 CIA code
2019-04-11 22:05

Lawyer for Joshua Schulte unhappy about agency review The lawyer for former CIA employee Joshua Schulte is unhappy the spy agency is allowed to review communications with her client before she...

How a new public-private partnership will fill cybersecurity gaps for the FBI and CIA
2019-04-09 14:47

Companies including Mastercard and Microsoft are partnering with federal agencies and nonprofits to produce more cyber talent.