News tagged with classified information

US official says bird flu limits not 'censorship'

Leading US health official Anthony Fauci on Wednesday rejected claims that the United States is censoring science by seeking to limit potentially dangerous bird flu information in major journals.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New system will detect insider threats from massive data sets

When a soldier in good mental health becomes homicidal or a government employee abuses access privileges to share classified information, we often wonder why no one saw it coming. When looking through the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cyber attacks hit Japan diplomatic missions

Computers at several of Japan's overseas diplomatic missions have been hit by cyber attacks, a report said Wednesday, just a day after it was revealed the country's parliament had been targeted.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Virus hits US drone fleet: report

A computer virus has hit the US Predator and Reaper drone fleet that Washington deploys to hunt down militants, logging the keystrokes of pilots remotely flying missions, Wired magazine reported.

Technology / Other

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 19

WikiLeaks releases mystery file

WikiLeaks released a mysterious encrypted file on Wednesday after telling its followers on Twitter to stand by for "an important announcement."

Technology / Internet

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

US fears individuals at risk after WikiLeaks dump

The United States voiced renewed concern over the risks to individuals after the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks made public more US diplomatic cables, many of which contained the names of sensitive sources.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WikiLeaks site comes under attack

(AP) -- The WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organization raised new concerns ...

Technology / Internet

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

US reaches plea deal with NSA spy whistle-blower

An ex-senior official in the top secret US National Security Agency will plead guilty to exceeding authorized use of a computer in a classified information leak case, court papers showed Thursday.

Technology / Other

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data

(AP) -- WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn't know who sent it some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghan war, telling journalists the website was set up to hide the source ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 34