CIA
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 ...
Equifax Hacked by China, Israeli Voter Registry Exposed, How the CIA Owned Encryption
In episode 108 for February 17th 2020: The US charges four Chinese military hackers in the Equifax data breach, how Israel’s entire voter registry was exposed, and details on the encryption provider ...
Crypto AG Was Owned by the CIA
The Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG sold equipment to governments and militaries around the world for decades after World War II. They were owned by the CIA: But what none of its ...
A New Clue for the Kryptos Sculpture
Jim Sanborn, who designed the Kryptos sculpture in a CIA courtyard, has released another clue to the still-unsolved part 4. I think he's getting tired of waiting. Did we mention Mr. Sanborn ...
What Does Integrity Monitoring Have To Do With Security Anyway?
After spending several decades in this industry, I have seen growth in many different security products and in many different areas. All the while, I’ve questioned whether specific technologies were offering real ...
Hong Kong Violence Instigated by Jason Bourne
A message was sent to Washington via China Daily July 25, when Beijing warned about bringing Taiwan and Hong Kong into the greater U.S.-China trade discussions. Then the fun started. The social ...
China’s CIA Penetration, Jerry Lee, Pleads Guilty
The former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer, who post-employment served as a proxy-penetration of the CIA for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), has pleaded guilty to a single count ...
