{"id":7217,"date":"2022-09-30T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/covert-cia-websites-could-have-been-found-by-an-amateur-research-finds\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T08:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:38:39","slug":"covert-cia-websites-could-have-been-found-by-an-amateur-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/covert-cia-websites-could-have-been-found-by-an-amateur-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Covert CIA websites could have been found by an \u2018amateur\u2019, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report raises serious doubts about the US intelligence agency\u2019s handling of safety measures after flaws put sources at risk<\/p>\n<p>The CIA used hundreds of websites for covert communications that were severely flawed and could have been identified by even an \u201camateur sleuth\u201d, according to security researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The flaws reportedly led to the death of more than two dozen US sources in China in 2011 and 2012 and also reportedly led Iran to execute or imprison other CIA assets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/sep\/29\/cia-websites-security-sources-communication-safety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eafd39b81c8d7eb3b17b57dadec3659f4686aa0c\/0_508_3383_2030\/master\/3383.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6532abbf7f2954eea047b119a6f94c6a\" title=\"Covert CIA websites could have been found by an \u2018amateur\u2019, research finds\" \/>A report raises serious doubts about the US intelligence agency\u2019s handling of safety measures after flaws put sources at risk<br \/>\nThe CIA used hundreds of websites for covert communications that were severely flawed and could have been identified by even an \u201camateur sleuth\u201d, according to security researchers.<br \/>\nThe flaws reportedly led to the death of more than two dozen US sources in China in 2011 and 2012 and also reportedly led Iran to execute or imprison other CIA assets. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report raises serious doubts about the US intelligence agency\u2019s handling of safety measures after flaws put sources at risk The CIA used hundreds of websites for covert communications that were severely flawed and could have been identified by even an \u201camateur sleuth\u201d, according to security researchers. The flaws reportedly led to the death of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/covert-cia-websites-could-have-been-found-by-an-amateur-research-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covert CIA websites could have been found by an \u2018amateur\u2019, research finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}