CIA Director Denounces Reporting On Email Hacking

CIA Director John Brennan, one of whom recently an old and disused private mail account was hacked, complains about the media coverage, as criminal activity in this way have given a platform. That Brennan recently said at a conference in Washington.

A teenager with two others knew an old AOL account Brennan via social engineering to hijack. In addition, were found several documents that WikiLeaks then made public. It was contact lists, recommendations on Afghanistan and Pakistan, addresses and phone numbers. Brennan According to some media have blown the incident and falsely claimed that he had done something wrong.

"Criminal activities provide a platform and disseminating information was inappropriate," as told the CIA director. Brennan says worrying about what people will do with the published data. He sees in the incident, the necessity that authorities have sufficient opportunities and powers to conduct investigations. The hacked AOL account since 2008 would no longer be used by Brennan, said AFP.

Private Mail Account CIA Director Hacked Through Social Engineering

A teenager with two others claiming the private mail account of CIA Director John Brennan to have hacked this social engineering used by itself if a telecom provider Verizon for doing so. That leaves the boy in front of Wired know.

As proof of the hack published the teen several sensitive documents on Twitter, including screening form that Brennan had to fill out to get his top secret powers. According to the teenager he worked with two others. The attack began with a "reverse lookup" for the phone number of Brennan. This showed that the CIA director was a customer of Verizon.Thereafter, it was one of the boys posing as an employee of Verizon and called the company for details on the account of Brennan.

"We told them we were working for Verizon customers and we had to call back." The excuse given was that the database was not accessible when the "employee" decided to call the company. After a fabricated employee code gave the teenagers got the information. It was Brennan's account number, four digit PIN, the mobile number that was set as a backup, the AOL e-mail address and the last four digits of his credit card.

With this information, called the AOL and teenagers reported that they had no access to their account. AOL asked for the name and number of the account data that had been the boys from Verizon. On October 12 she knew then gain access to the private account of Brennan. After several days the AOL account was eventually removed by Brennan.

British Government Gives Secret Service Hacking Powers

The British government has quietly changed the law so that the intelligence agency GCHQ can not be indicted for hacking. That leaves privacy organization Privacy International know. The organization was told this is a day for a hearing on the illegal hacking practices of GCHQ.

On March 3, there appears to be a change in the law to be implemented which intelligence can not be prosecuted for illegal hacking operations. In early May last year had Privacy International along with seven Internet providers, including tabled the Dutch Green Host a complaint against the GCHQ. The hacking practices of the intelligence service would be incompatible with the British computer law, which prohibits hacking. There would also be no legal authority to approve the hacking practices of GCHQ well.

In June last year the British government quietly introduced legislation that intelligence can not be held liable for hacking. This, according to Privacy International does not just affect the charges, but offers British investigators even the ability to carry out cyber attacks within Britain. The accompanying text would also not mentioned the impact of the adjustment. It would also regulators and other parties about the amendment have been informed or consulted. The bill was finally adopted on 3 March this year and has been in effect since May 3.

Privacy International notes that it is not the first time that the British government because of the indictment carries quietly amendments to the law. Thus was prepared in February for a "Code of Practice" which British intelligence gives the power to hack into goals, even though they are not a threat to national security or are not suspected of a crime.

"The underhand and undemocratic way in which the government hacking operations GCHQ attempts to legalize is outrageous," said Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International. He notes that hacking one of the most penetrating surveillance capabilities, and its use must be surrounded by all sorts of guarantees.