CIA

Lately, the New York Times has reported that CIA pays more than $10 million a year to AT&T for access to international calling records. AT&T has confirmed that it works with CIA but refused to divulge the nature of this partnership.

Area 51 has long been the mysterious and an unknown area where anything from aliens to secret government projects could have existed. Now reports have it that CIA kept Area 51 as secret because rumors were cooler than reality.

The looming threat of cyber warfare has become more vivid and real in recent years. More and more sophisticated tools are now available to perpetuate such a war. And apparently to prepare skilled personnel to counter that, University of Tulsa's Cyber Corps program equips enrolled students with advanced hacking and coding skills.

The FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann recently said while addressing at the University of San Francisco that due to a recent Supreme Court ruling has asked for a “sea change” within the U.S. Justice Department since the agency is disabling some 3,000 GPS tracking devices installed under the vehicles to monitor their movements. According to…

Apple has released Security Update 2011-005 for Lion and Snow Leopard via their Software Update Utility and website for direct download, this update is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X. It also addresses a specific security issue with fraudulent certificates from DigiNotar and the release includes versions for Mac OS…

The state of American cybersecurity is often criticized by experts as inefficient and lacking. An incident from back in 2008 shows how the people in charge of the country's cybersecurity can mess up in ways that border on stupidity. The story was recently exposed by the Washington Post, and goes like this: A terrorist-tracking forum, created by the…