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CIA accused of 11 year hacking campaign

Chinese antivirus firm Qihoo 360 said CIA hackers spent over a decade breaking into the Chinese airline industry and other targets, a blunt allegation...

What do I need to know about the CIA’s hacking program?

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WikiLeaks, the website that specializes in exposing secrets, released thousands of documents that described internal U.S. Central Intelligence Agency discussions on hacking...

WikiLeaks says it releases files on CIA cyber spying tools

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Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks on Tuesday published what it said were thousands of pages of internal CIA discussions about hacking techniques used over...

CIA weapons for Syrian rebels sold to arms black market

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Weapons shipped into Jordan for Syrian rebels by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and...

CIA spy ship built to raise Soviet sub becomes victim of...

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A ship built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub is heading...

CIA chief admits agency used ‘abhorrent’ methods on detainees

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CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday some agency officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees captured following the Sept. 11 attacks and...

ISS on Deputy Defence Minister’s accusations

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The Kebby Maphatsoe/Thuli Madonsela/CIA spat is "a new low in public discourse" in South Africa, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) maintains. Judith...

Italian court sentences abducted Egyptian to 6 years

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An Italian court sentenced the radical Egyptian Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in absentia on Friday to six years in prison...

US Air Force flying drones from Ethiopian base

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The US Air Force has been secretly flying armed MQ-9 Reaper drones on counterterrorism missions from a remote civilian airport in southern...

Afghan employee kills US citizen at Kabul CIA base

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An Afghan security guard employed by the US Embassy opened fire inside a CIA office in Kabul on Sunday evening, killing an...

CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group

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Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen...

UK police say arrested teen hacking leader

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British police arrested a teenager believed to be a leader of computer hacking groups that boasted attacks on the networks of the...

LulzSec hackers disband after last data dump

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The Lulz Security group of rogue hackers announced it was disbanding with one last data dump, which included internal AOL Inc and...

Iran scientist turns up at Washington mission

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A missing Iranian nuclear scientist, who Tehran says was kidnapped by the CIA, has turned up at the Iranian interests section of...

US medical staff experimented on terror suspects: report

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Medical personnel apparently experimented on terror detainees during CIA-led torture after the September 11 attacks, aiming to improve interrogation techniques, a human...

Covert US military operations authorized in secret order

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A senior US military commander issued a secret order last year that laid the ground for an escalation of covert operations across...

British spy chief denies collusion in torture

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The head of Britain's MI5 security service denied last week that his agency colluded in torture, after a court ruling showed it...

UK forced to publish CIA torture allegations

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The British government lost a legal battle to prevent the disclosure of secret US intelligence material relating to allegations of "cruel and...

US defends interrogation of airplane bomb suspect

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US Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday rebuffed criticism that intelligence was lost by giving a lawyer and other legal rights to the...

Secret detention remains serious problem: UN report

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The United States, Algeria, Egypt, Sudan and Zimbabwe are among dozens of countries that have kidnapped and held suspects in secret detention...

US team should have questioned Nigerian: spy chief

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The top US intelligence officer said yesterday that a group set up to interrogate terrorism suspects should have been used when a...

The Khost attack and the Intelligence War challenge

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As Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi exited the vehicle that brought him onto Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, on Dec. 30,...