The previously classified incident explains the Defense Department’s November 2008 ban on Flash drives and other removable media.
The most significant breach of U.S. military computers occurred in 2008 when an infected Flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop in the Middle East.
The incident is discussed publicly for the first time [...]
The recent spy swap between the USA and Russia is reminiscent of the Cold War era intensified espionage game played by the Soviet regime and the USA, Britain and their allies in the so-called Free World.
The FBI and CIA were aware of the existence of a substantial sleeper spy cell in the suburbs of New [...]
An article that appeared Wired Danger Room yesterday reveals that the CIA and Google are now in cahoots to invest in a new company called Recorded Future – a real-life version of Minority Report, one that’s all fact and no fantasy, It’s purpose is to know the present and predict the future, totally.
I’m a longtime [...]
The CIA named a retired spy as new head of clandestine operations . The spy spent most of his carriere in Africa and he also directed intelligence operations of the agency in Pakistan.
Both current and retired U.S. intel officials said to Associated Press that John Bennett replaces Michael Sulick in one of the most important positions in [...]
The US secret intelligence gathering systems have grown so much since 9/11 that no-one knows their exact cost, nor size, the Washington Post reports.
The newspaper says the system is now so massive and unwieldy that it is impossible to determine its effectiveness in keeping the US safe.
The report, Top Secret [...]
An American couple who has pleaded guilty to spying for Cuba will be sentenced on Friday after a debriefing prosecutors said was tarnished but did not breach their plea agreement, informed Reuters in a recent report.
Former State Department official Walter Kendall Myers, who had access to classified information, and his wife, Gwendolyn, who worked at [...]
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala’s military intercepted on Friday evening a submarine that was carrying at least five tons of cocaine, said a report of news agency AFP Sunday after a interview with the spokesman of the Armed Forces, Colonel Byron Gutierrez.
The military detailed that the action was taken in front of the Pacific coast of [...]
Forget all that loose, premature talk we’ve been hearing about new thinking in Red Square or the onset — yet again — of close working relations between Moscow and Washington.
It isn’t true.
The truth is vastly darker, it’s much more intriguing, and it consists of deep-seated mutual suspicion and spies, spies, spies.
“This was a very systematic, [...]
WASHINGTON — They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers.
But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of a Russian espionage [...]
The simple answer is no, at least not with traditional bugs and intercepts, says Richard Aldrich, author of a study of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) monitoring agency.
The torrent of data is as much a curse as a blessing for the eavesdroppers and code busters of GCHQ, which works with U.S. [...]
