Ex-CIA Analyst Pleads Guilty to Sharing Top-Secret Data with Unauthorized Parties

A former analyst working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA pleaded guilty to transmitting top secret National Defense Information NDI to individuals who did not have the necessary authorization to receive it and attempted to cover up the activity. Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, wa...

Turns Out Kaspersky Labs Helped FBI Catch Alleged NSA Leaker

Remember "The Shadow Brokers" and the arrest of a former NSA contractor accused of stealing 50 Terabytes of top secret documents from the intelligence agency? It turns out that, Kaspersky Lab, which has been banned in US government computers over spying fears, was the one who tipped off the U.S...

NSA Crypto Questions Resemble a 'Hall of Mirrors'

There’s been no shortage of discussion and debate in recent week about the possibility that the NSA has intentionally weakened some cryptographic algorithms and cipher suites in order to give it an advantage in its intelligence-gathering operations. If you subscribe to the worst-case scenario lin...

UK Ministry of Defence: Hackers Have Breached Top Secret Systems

The UK’s military’s head of cyber security warned that hackers have breached computer systems containing top secret data, The Guardian reported. Major General Jonathan Shaw told the paper that the number of known breaches to top secret systems was small, but that attacks were “hard to quantify” a...