4 posts and columns on Central Intelligence Agency

CIA Web Site Goes Down; LulzSec Takes Credit

in News on June 15, 2011 at 3:27 pm PT

Extended its “lulz” to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the LulzSec group appears to have hobbled the agency’s Web site with a denial of service attack.
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2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to It.

in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The year just ending started with an attack on Google by China and ended with the WikiLeaks affair. In the meantime, the Stuxnet worm showed the way toward a world where skilled hackers can cause serious real-world damage. Scared yet?

Amazon to Investors: We Wish You a Lousy Xmas

in News on October 23, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mice

in News on October 23, 2008 at 8:50 am PT

Targeted memory erasure may soon be more than just a plot device in romantic comedies like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” By manipulating a single protein called alpha-CaM kinase II, researchers have managed to eliminate traumatic memories from the brains of mice without impacting their ability to recall other memories.