Digital Government

Senators Investigate Role of Encryption in Paris Attacks

Lawmakers want to know whether encryption allowed the attackers to keep their communications covert.

Digital Government

Brennan: Paris Is a 'Wakeup Call' to Europe on Encryption

The ability to shield communications from anyone but the intended recipient via encryption and other digital means will now face unprecedented challenges.

Digital Government

CIA official looks to free 'captive' data

The CIA's new head of digital innovation wants to unsilo the spy agency's data. That problem is so big and complicated that a whole new organization has been created to solve it.

Cybersecurity

Are Microsoft and Google Better at Cybersecurity than the CIA?

Questions arise following the hack of John Brennan's personal email.

Cybersecurity

CIA: Brennan AOL Files on WikiLeaks ‘Absolutely’ Not Official Agency Work

The six documents published on the website date from 2007 and 2008, and include an application for a security clearance to handle classified information.

Digital Government

What We Know About the Hack of the CIA Director’s Private Email

The CIA said it was investigating but wouldn’t confirm if the account was legitimate.

Digital Government

CIA Social Media Team: We Use Twitter to 'Explain Our Mission'

The small team is more interested in using the platform to push out historical tidbits than having conversations with individual users.

Digital Government

CIA's Genius Twitter Strategy

Why this shadowy government agency is showing its sense of humor.

Digital Government

IC Hones in on New CIO

Raymond Cook formerly led multiagency IT infrastructure, data sharing and compliance within the CIA.

Digital Government

How Much Damage Can OPM Hackers Do With a Million Fingerprints?

The pilfering of 1.1 million fingerprints is “probably the biggest counterintelligence threat in my lifetime,” one former NSA official said.

Modernization

How To Break Into the CIA’s Cloud on Amazon

Looking to steal America’s spy data from Amazon? Hope you’re up for a challenge.

Modernization

What Do US Intelligence Agencies and Netflix Have in Common? Both are Amazon Cloud Customers

It’s been almost a year since Amazon Web Services stood up a cloud computing infrastructure for the 17 agencies within the intelligence community.

Modernization

CIA Is Trying to Hack Your iPhone

New Snowden documents reveal a decade-long CIA push to break Apple’s encryption protections.

Emerging Tech

CIA’s New Big Data Hub Will be Hosted in the Cloud

CIA Chief Information Officer Doug Wolfe confirmed Wednesday the intelligence agency will start using Cloudera’s Enterprise Data Hub platform by April.

Modernization

CIA is Bringing Amazon’s Marketplace to the Intelligence Community

In the coming months, Amazon Web Services will launch an IC-only cloud marketplace that aims to shake up the way spy agencies purchase software.

Digital Government

CIA Watchdog Who Revealed Senate Hack is Resigning

Inspector General David Buckley will step down at the end of the month, the agency said.

Cybersecurity

Torture Report: Seized Computers, Not Waterboarding, Thwarted Would-be Bomber

A confiscated computer and the CIA's cyber capabilities -- not waterboarding -- were essential in yielding information.

Digital Government

CIA’s Official Book Reviewer Unimpressed with Tomes on Snowden

The spy agency describes Glenn Greenwald’s recent book as full of “bitter ad hominem rationale.”