CIA leaker gets 40 years for spying and kiddie porn
Joshua Schulte sent material to Wikileaks
A former CIA software engineer was caged for 40 years on Thursday for nicking top-secret information and having child porn.
CIA software engineer convicted of information theft
You are not supposed to be stealing stuff from us
A former CIA software engineer faces federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.
CIA admits it has got its claws into cyber currency
Not quite the conspiracy theory but still rather scary
CIA Director William Burns said the intelligence agency has "a number of different projects focused on cryptocurrency" on the go.
CIA controlled two Swiss encryption firms
Swiss politicians rather cheesed off at security holes
Swiss politicians are mightly miffed that after it was revealed that a second Swiss encryption company was allegedly used by the CIA and its German counterpart to spy on governments worldwide.
Trump secretly allows the CIA to conduct cyber attacks
Without being overseen by anyone
The Central Intelligence Agency has been given the power to conduct a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets without any oversight or needing to get approval.
Mistrial in CIA leak case
Hung jury
A New York federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday after a jury failed to convict a former CIA programmer accused of passing the agency’s most valuable hacking tools to WikiLeaks.
How the CIA gamed encryption for decades
Bought the main company
For decades the world thought it was safe behind encryption systems which were secretly owned by the CIA, according to a Washington Post report.
CIA bloke faces trial over Wikileaks leak
CIA hacking methods revealed
Manhattan federal prosecutors are poised to open their case Tuesday in the trial of a former software engineer for the Central Intelligence Agency who is charged with handing over a trove of classified information on the spy agency's hacking operations to WikiLeaks.
US weapons ship with CIA backdoors
Hands off our manpads
The CIA has been putting in security flaws into US-made weapons so that they can be disabled if they fall into the wrong hands.
CIA was spying on intel partners
Targeted the FBI and Homeland security
The FBI and Homeland Security, who relied on the CIA for tech support for biometric data, were being targeted by spyware.