U.S. Dept Of Defense: exposed FOUO documents, including Passport information

A set of FOUO documents, including a person's passport information, was found posted online. The documents were hosted on various government websites and did not appear to contain highly sensitive information, aside from the passport details. The Distributed Denial of Secrets website was also...

Ex-CIA Analyst Sentenced to 37 Months for Leaking Top Secret National Defense Documents

A former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA analyst has been sentenced to little more than three years in prison for unlawfully retaining and transmitting top secret National Defense Information NDI to people who were not entitled to receive them and for attempting to cover up the malicious...

Snowden Ten Years Later

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as well. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. The New Yorker agreed to publish it, but the Guardian asked me not to...

The High-Stakes Scramble to Stop Classified Leaks

AI tools? A porn filter, but for Top Secret documents? Just classifying less stuff? US lawmakers are full of ideas but lack a silver bullet...

h1-ctf: [h1-415 2020] Multiple chained vulnerabilities lead to leaking secret document

Hi! Summary Multiple chained vulnerabilities lead to leaking secret documents. Improper sanitization in registration allows an attacker to create a QR recover code for any email address. This leads to an account takeover. Using that technique on jobert's account, attacker can access the support...

Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by Russian hackers. Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland—who work...

Wikileak's Julian Assange Could Be Set Free On Friday by United Nation

The decision of the United Nations investigation into the Julian Assange case is set to be revealed and could order the release of Wikileaks founder on February 5. "BREAKING: UN set to announce decision on Assange's release on Friday,"BREAKING: UN set to announce decision on Assange's release on...

Syrian Electronic Army hacks U.S Central Command & threatens to leak Secret Documents

The Pro-hacker group, very well known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA aligned with president Bashar al-Assad, had recently taken down Forbes Website, sending a reminder to the international community that cyber warfare is alive and well, and this time the group has targeted U.S Central Command...

Stellar Wind Surveillance program under Obama administration

According to secret documents obtained by the Guardian, Obama administration permitted the National Security Agency to surveillance the Emails and Internet metadata of all Americans. This secret warrant less surveillance program, collectively known by the NSA code name Stellar Wind, was launched ...