Cyberculture agenda: CIA Director John Brennan emails in Wikileaks… Open Access Week 2015…

CIA Director John Brennan emails WikiLeaks Today, 21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan’s non-government email accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence related projects. John Brennan WikiLeaks Is Publishing the CIA Director’s Hacked Emails  Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg Days … Read more

CIA chief in town to discuss what to do with Syria…

CIA chief Petraeus pays surprise visit to Turkey from Hurriyet Daily News Petraeus arrived in Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport with his private plane, according to an exclusive report by Turkish daily newspaper Akşam. CIA chief in Istanbul for talks on Syria and terrorism from Hurriyet Daily News Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director David Petraeus have arrived … Read more

From US, Europe to Iran, internet freedom under threat… a cyberculture roundup

ACTA: The State of Play in the US from EFF.org Updates by maira In the last few weeks, we?ve seen surprising and significant developments with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in both the US and the EU. As we?ve noted before, ACTA is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property enforcement … Read more

cyber actors under attack. Blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah detained, Julian Assange loses extradition appeal, CIA is reading your tweets and Facebook status updates….

plus….german police malware discovered, anonymous vs. zetas… a cyberculture roundup:  Egypt: Blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah Detained for 15 Days by Amira Al Hussaini This post is part of our special coverage Egypt Revolution 2011. Activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah has been detained for 15 days, after refusing to be interrogated by the … Read more

brief portrayals of LulzSec and Anonymous by PC magazine and a cyberculture roundup..

LulzSec? Anonymous? Know Your Hackers PC Magazine More recently, the group made headlines for going after security firm HBGary Federal, companies that cut ties with Wikileaks, and Sony. Anonymous attacked HBGary’s site on February 6, days after CEO Aaron Barr told the Financial Times that he knew and Hackers claim CIA website disruption Financial Times … Read more

From the cablegate front: CIA’s Wikileaks mirror site, Obama calls PM Erdoğan, Justice for Assange site etc.

Obama calls Turkish PM over leaked cables The Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) ? President Barack Obama called Turkey’s prime minister to mend ties following the release on the WikiLeaks website of US diplomatic cables Obama joins WikiLeaks assault The Australian … action by WikiLeaks, and the two leaders agreed that it would not influence or … Read more

“CIA Secret Experiments”

“CIA Secret Experiments” on National Geographic Channel from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz As 44 million Americans live in poverty, a crisis grows from washingtonpost.com – Op-Ed Columns by Katrina vanden Heuvel When the government released new U.S. Census data on poverty last week, our warp-speed news cycle paid too little attention to what these … Read more