A former CIA official pleaded guilty Friday, January 17, to leaking top secret US intelligence documents about Israeli military plans for a retaliatory strike on Iran. Asif Rahman, 34, who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency since 2016 and held a top secret security clearance, was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia in November. Rahman … Read more
Jack Teixeira, the 22-year-old former Air National Guardsman who leaked hundreds of classified documents online, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Teixeira, who served as an IT specialist at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, was arrested in April 2023 after abusing his privileged position to share highly-sensitive documents with friends he … Read more
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 analysis uncovered a typical downside amongst open-source GitHub tasks that would expose secrets and techniques, and even permit attackers to inject malicious code into GitHub Actions workflows. GitHub Actions workflows usually use secrets and techniques, akin to cloud service and GitHub tokens, to carry out sure actions, and lots of … Read more
