Story of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda

Rolling Stone has a long investigative story non-paywalled version here about a CIA agent who spent years posing as an Islamic radical. Unrelated, but also in the "real life spies" file: a fake Sudanese diving resort run by Mossad...

FBI Analyst Indicted for Theft of Osama bin Laden Threat Intel

An FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance illegally squirreled away national-security documents related to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, cybersecurity and more in her home for years, the feds say. Kendra Kingsbury, who was working in the FBI’s Kansas City Division until being put on leave in...

Risk of Election Day Cyberattacks Low According To Cyber Chatter

Security experts monitoring cyber-chatter for virtual and real-world threats against U.S. Election Day targets say so far, so good. They don’t believe there will be cyberattack or al-Qaeda terror attack come Election Day. That’s not to say the U.S. government isn’t ready for the worst. The White...

Paris Attacks — NO! We Can't Blame Edward Snowden and Encryption for Terror Attacks

Terrorist groups are increasingly using high-grade, advanced end-to-end encryption technologies so that no law enforcement can catch them. The deadliest terror attacks in Paris that killed 129 people were the latest example of it. How did the Terrorists Communicate and Organize the Plot? The Pari...

Al Qaeda Homegrown Encryption Likely Aids NSA Intelligence

Terrorist organization Al Qaeda has reportedly stepped up its development of homegrown encryption technology since the Edward Snowden leaks began last June. The question puzzling some security experts is: Why? “This is hard, and the odds they are doing it correctly are low,” said cryptographer an...

Terrorist Group Al-Qaeda Uses New Encryption Softwares After NSA Revelations

Last year, Just after Snowden leaks, the U.S Government warned that NSA surveillance revelations will make harder to track bad guys trying to harm the United States, as disclosures can be helpful to terrorist groups. In response to the NSA revelations, the terrorists at Al-Qaeda have started usin...

CNN's Twitter, Facebook and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

A well-known pro-Syrian hacker group known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA, aligned with President Bashar al-Assad, who successfully attacked The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Twitter, BBC, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera, Microsoft, Xbox, Skype and responsible for cyber-attacks against...

Latest Al-Qaeda Magazine content hacked by Western intelligence agencies

New issue of English-language al-Qaeda magazine posted on the terror group's website earlier this week linked to the Boston terrorist attacks has possibly been hacked by Western intelligence agencies and its content beyond its cover page was scrambled. The magazine, produced by al Qaeda's Yemeni...

Latest Al-Qaeda Magazine content hacked by Western intelligence agencies

New issue of English-language al-Qaeda magazine posted on the terror group's website earlier this week linked to the Boston terrorist attacks has possibly been hacked by Western intelligence agencies and its content beyond its cover page was scrambled. The magazine, produced by al Qaeda's Yemeni...

WikiLeaks releases hacked US military detention policies

The whistleblowing website Wikileaks from tonight releasing more than 100 U.S. Defense Department files detailing military detention policies in camps in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay in the years after the September 11 attacks on U.S. targets - "The Detainee Policies" In a statement, WikiLeaks...

Al-Qaeda websites hacked and remains down for past 12 days

Al-Qaeda websites hacked and remains down for past 12 days Al-Qaeda's main internet forums have been offline for the past 12 days in the longest sustained outages of the sites since they began operating. Several online forums frequently visited by al-Qaeda operatives were downed over the course o...

Operation Cupcake : MI6 hacks al-Qaeda website !

As part of its cyber-warfare operations, British spy agency MI6 has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced ''bomb-making '' instructions with a recipe for cupcakes, a media report said. The operation was launched by MI6 in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian...

Operation Cupcake : MI6 hacks al-Qaeda website !

As part of its cyber-warfare operations, British spy agency MI6 has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced ''bomb-making'' instructions with a recipe for cupcakes, a media report said. The operation was launched by MI6 in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian...

Report: bin Laden Raid Yields Treasure Trove of Data

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Navy Seals hauled off a treasure trove of data, including computers, hard drives and portable storage devices, following their successful raid on the compound of Osama bin Laden – a raid that culminated with the death of the terrorist leader. Navy SEALS...