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[4] [5] A CIA internal audit identified 91 malware tools out of more than 500 tools in use in 2016 being compromised by the release. [6] The tools were developed by the Operations Support Branch of the CIA. [7] The Vault 7 release led the CIA to redefine WikiLeaks as a "non-state hostile intelligence service."
Joshua Adam Schulte (born September 25, 1988) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who was convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks published the documents as Vault 7 , which The New York Times called "the largest loss of classified documents in the agency's history and a huge embarrassment for C.I.A ...
Movieland, also known as Movieland.com, Moviepass.tv and Popcorn.net, was a subscription-based movie download service that has been the subject of thousands of complaints to the Federal Trade Commission, the Washington State Attorney General's Office, the Better Business Bureau, and other agencies by consumers who said they were held hostage by its repeated pop-up windows and demands for ...
The movie WarGames introduces the wider public to the phenomenon of hacking and creates a degree of mass paranoia about hackers and their supposed abilities to bring the world to a screeching halt by launching nuclear ICBMs. [19] The U.S. House of Representatives begins hearings on computer security hacking. [20]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been the subject of a number of controversies, both in and outside of the United States. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner accuses the CIA of covert actions and human rights abuses. [1] Jeffrey T. Richelson of the National Security Archive has been critical of its claims. [2]
In January 2019, DDoSecrets published hundreds of gigabytes of hacked Russian documents and emails from pro-Kremlin journalists, oligarchs, and militias. [5] The New York Times called the release "a symbolic counterstrike against Russia's dissemination of hacked emails to influence the American presidential election in 2016", though DDoSecrets founder Emma Best stated it was not a retaliatory ...
The 414s were a group of computer hackers from Milwaukee who broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including ones at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Security Pacific National Bank, in 1982 and 1983. [1]
Hamza Bendelladj (Arabic: حمزة بن دلاج, romanized: Ḥamza ben Delāj; born 1988) [1] [2] is an Algerian cyberhacker and carder who goes by the code name BX1 [3] and has been nicknamed the "Smiling Hacker".