Collaborate Disseminate
The Office of the National Cyber Director has hired several new staffers to strengthen its ability to fight significant hacks and coordinate how the U.S. responds to them.
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The Black Vault has released hundreds of public PDFs containing CIA information on UFOs Continue reading You Can Now Easily Download All CIA UFO Documents to Date
A senator with insight into the way U.S. intelligence agencies conduct espionage wants to know if American spies are protecting their secrets in a way that prevents intruders from stealing information that’s crucial to national security. In a letter sent Tuesday to the director of national intelligence, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked for more information about what he described as “widespread security problems across the intelligence community.” Wyden was referencing, in part, an internal Central Intelligence Agency audit that described “longstanding imbalances and lapses” in data protection before WikiLeaks published secret U.S. hacking tools, known as the Vault 7 files, starting in 2017. The October 2017 audit encouraged the CIA to view the audit’s findings as “a wake-up call” and “an opportunity” to “reorient how we view risk.” Now, Wyden is asking Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe about whether known vulnerabilities still exist. The intelligence community “is still lagging […]
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The Senate Intelligence Committee quietly approved a measure last week that would require the Director of National Intelligence to submit a report to Congress on the threats posed by foreign governments’ and entities’ use of commercially available surveillance software. The DNI’s report, which would be sent to Congress 180 days after the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021 passes, would include information on how the U.S. — and other countries — can work to reduce the threats of commercial spyware, including through export controls, diplomatic pressure, trade agreements, and work with the technology and telecommunications sectors to better secure consumers’ software. The committee wants the DNI to specifically address the threat posed to U.S. citizens, in addition to those living abroad or employed by the U.S. government. The report request comes nearly one year after the United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye called for a moratorium on the creation and sale of […]
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U.S. prosecutors will retry ex-CIA employee Joshua Schulte on espionage-related charges after a jury couldn’t come to a decision in his first trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Denton on Monday told a judge in the Southern District of New York that the Department of Justice “does intend to retry Mr. Schulte on the espionage charges.” The update comes more than two months after a jury found Schulte, 31, guilty of lying to the FBI and contempt of court, though they remained deadlocked on eight counts, including the illegal transmission of national defense information. Prosecutors will “clarify” the charges, Denton said, but not add any new criminal counts. While a trial date remains unclear, Judge Paul Crotty said jury selection would not begin before September, amid ongoing concerns connected to the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s difficult to predict when things are going to approach normal again,” he said. The teleconference came after […]
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In expanding US drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan, Trump has “shredded” Obama-era safeguards to minimizing the risk of civilian casualties. Continue reading While No One Is Looking, Trump Is Escalating America’s Drone War
Sprawling “Brutal Kangaroo“ spreads malware using booby-trapped USB drives. Continue reading How the CIA infects air-gapped networks
Latest Vault7 release exposes network-spying operation CIA kept secret since 2007. Continue reading Advanced CIA firmware has been infecting Wi-Fi routers for years
Latest Vault 7 release exposes operation that infects PCs inside targeted networks. Continue reading WikiLeaks says CIA’s “Pandemic” turns servers into infectious Patient Zero
WikiLeaks released details on what it claims are two frameworks for malware samples dubbed AfterMindnight and Assassin, both allegedly developed by the US Central Intelligence Agency. Continue reading WikiLeaks Reveals Two CIA Malware Frameworks