CIA
CIA Elevates Cyber Espionage Division to Mission Center in Internal Reorganization
What happened The CIA elevated its cyber espionage division to mission center status as part of an internal reorganization carried out late last year. The Center for Cyber Intelligence, which had operated ...
Ban TikTok, say FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, GOP, DNC, POTUS (but not ACLU)
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. RESTRICT: The White House and both sides of the Senate agree that TikTok needs to be stopped—or at least RESTRICT’ed. A bipartisan bill seeks to make that happen ...
Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites
Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by—at least—China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a bunch of arrests, imprisonments, ...
US Gov’t Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris
NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris ...
Integrity: How It’s More than Just Data Security and FIM
Integrity is a word thrown around a lot in the cybersecurity space. That’s not surprising. It is one of the three components that make up the CIA Triad, after all. However, the ...
Integrity – It’s a Matter of Trust
When you think of the cybersecurity “CIA” triad of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, which one of those is most important to your organization? From a privacy standpoint, confidentiality reigns supreme. Confidentiality is so ...
Second Swiss Firm Said to Be CIA Encryption Puppet
First Crypto AG, and now Omnisec AG: Sources say second Swiss company was also in the pocket of the CIA ...
Theft of CIA’s "Vault Seven" Hacking Tools Due to Its Own Lousy Security
The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered a year after it ...
CIA Dirty Laundry Aired
Joshua Schulte, the CIA employee standing trial for leaking the Wikileaks Vault 7 CIA hacking tools, maintains his innocence. And during the trial, a lot of shoddy security and sysadmin practices are ...
More on Crypto AG
One follow-on to the story of Crypto AG being owned by the CIA: this interview with a Washington Post reporter. The whole thing is worth reading or listening to, but I was ...
