The US Attorney General William Barr has charged four officers belonging the People’s Liberation Army’s 54th Research Institute. The charges allege responsibility for the Equifax hack which occurred in 2017. The personal data of up to 147 million Americans was compromised by the attack. Some in Canada and the UK …
4 February: Iran has announced the death sentence for one of seventeen alleged CIA spies who were rounded up in July 2019. Amir Rahimpour, an Iranian national, was accused of passing intelligence about Iran’s nuclear programme to the CIA. Two other alleged spies, also Iranian nationals, were sentenced to terms …
28 January: A Harvard professor has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Dr Charles Lieber, 60, is chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology and one of only twenty-six senior professors at Harvard. He specialises in nanoscience and brain/computer interface technology. It is alleged that since …
At Guantanamo Bay, a pre-trial hearing for five detainees involved in the 9/11 attacks has revealed more details about the CIA’s torture programme. The military court heard from contractors involved in the programme. The defence team has asked to question fifty-two members of the torture teams, but the CIA has …
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that Edward Snowden may not receive any money from his book, Permanent Record, because he did not clear it first with US authorities, notably the NSA for whom he used to work as a contractor. Interestingly, the NSA did not object to the …