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Hacking as Offensive Counterintelligence
Washington, DC, is reeling from revelations that the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal government's HR hub, has been extensively hacked. OPM is an obscure but important agency since it ho...
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Cyber-Espionage Case Reveals the Shabby State of Online Security
A groundbreaking online-spying case unearths details that companies wish you didn’t know about how vital information slips away from them.
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Kaspersky Finds New Nation-State Attack—In Its Own Network
Kaspersky says the attackers became entrenched in its networks some time last year.
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New Evidence Shows Duke of Windsor Plotted With Hitler
Soviet, Spanish archives detail how the Duke wanted to replace the British cabinet with a pro-Nazi government.
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Dorothy McKibbin: The Manhattan Project’s Secret Weapon
Oppenheimer. Fermi. Feynman. Groves. When most people think (or read) about who was behind the American effort to make the atomic bomb, these are the names that often come to the fore. But there is one lady who tied all of the scientists, technicians, and other figures together during their time at Los Alamos...
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Behind the greatest Wikipedia hoax ever pulled
Yuri Gadyukin did not owe money to a gangster. His final film was not swirling out of control. Weathers did not kill him. His body was not found beneath the Hammersmith Bridge. Gadyukin never died, in fact, because he never existed...
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Iran’s Spies Tried to Recruit Me
Iran could hardly see my work as flattering—but a group with the spy service’s backing still tried to enlist me in a conference against ‘Zionist State Terrorism.’ By Shane Harris.
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Can Thulisile Madonsela Save South Africa From Itself?
Two decades after the fall of apartheid, the nation’s first female public protector tries to beat back corruption at the highest levels of government.
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Has Russian radio signal UVB-76 been solved after 40 years?
After years of searching, the most mysterious radio signal in the world may have finally been solved.
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Billionaire Bunkers: Exclusive Look Inside the World’s Largest Planned Doomsday Escape
For the very first time, a modern day Noah's Ark has opened its doors for an exclusive inside look offering up plans for the ultimate Billionaire bunker and doomsday escape...
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Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — And Lost Everything
A black CIA officer, Sterling filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency, spoke to Congress as a whistleblower — and was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and sent to prison.
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The search for the £1.9bn Atlantic treasure lost at sea - but does it exist?
Early in 2012, a former swimming pool installer turned treasure hunter called Greg Brooks made global headlines when he announced the discovery of the SS Port Nicholson – a British freighter sunk off America in 1942, thought to be carrying £1.9bn of Russian platinum to pay for weaponry to help an increasingly desperate Stalin defeat Hitler.
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The Hunt for the Financial Industry’s Most-Wanted Hacker
The malware known as ZeuS and its rogue creator have been at the cutting edge of cyber-crime for nearly a decade.
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‘We Assume the Bad Thing Has Already Happened’
EMC is one of the world’s largest makers of data storage systems. Like other companies, it’s also being hacked with alarming frequency. Meet the team fighting back—before it’s too late.
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American Hippopotamus
A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos. By Jon Mooallem.
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The Man Who Jumped Out Of The Window
My Great Uncle Abe was a liberal icon and a target of vicious McCarthyites in the 1950s. But is that what drove him to suicide?
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The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google. Now they won’t tell us why
"We can neither confirm nor deny..." By Yasha Levine.
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FBI Wants Pirate Bay Logs to Expose Copyright Trolls
Over the past months two Pirate Bay co-founders have been questioned by Swedish police, acting on behalf of the FBI. The officers were looking for information on Pirate Bay backups and logs as part of an investigation into the honeypot scheme of the notorious Prenda copyright trolls.
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Real-life ‘Billion Dollar Spy’ reads like a Cold War fiction thriller
One wintry night in early 1977, in the depths of the Cold War, a furtive man approached a CIA officer at a gas station reserved for foreign diplomats in Moscow and slipped him a note offering to spy for America.
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Operation Red Falcon
He was one of the greatest spies the Mossad had ever seen. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.
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