Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites
September 30 2022Back 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...
Read moreCold War Bugging of Soviet Facilities
September 28 2022Found documents in Poland detail US spying operations against the former Soviet Union.
The file details a number of bugs found at Soviet diplomatic facilities in Washington, D.C., New...
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Microsoft has a comprehensive report on the dozens of cyberattacks — and even more espionage operations — Russia has conducted against Ukraine as part of this war:
At least...
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Long Article on NSO Group
April 21 2022Ronan Farrow has a long article in the New Yorker on NSO Group, which includes the news that someone — probably Spain — used the software to spy on...
Read moreThis will be law soon:
Companies critical to U.S. national interests will now have to report when they’re hacked or they pay ransomware, according to new rules approved by...
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Amy Zegart on Spycraft in the Internet Age
February 8 2022Amy Zegart has a new book: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Wired has an excerpt:
In short, data volume and accessibility are...
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Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
January 13 2022Remember when the US and Australian police surreptitiously owned and operated the encrypted cell phone app ANOM? They arrested 800 people in 2021 based on that operation.
New documents...
Read moreNation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks
October 22 2021Someone has been hacking telecommunications networks around the world:
- LightBasin (aka UNC1945) is an activity cluster that has been consistently targeting the telecommunications sector at a global scale since... Read more
Tetris: Chinese Espionage Tool
August 18 2021I’m starting to see writings about a Chinese espionage tool that exploits website vulnerabilities to try and identify Chinese dissidents.
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