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How to Protect Your Devices from Hacking

by Brian X. Chen | Mar 10, 2017 | Business, Technology

New York- WikiLeaks this week published a trove of documents that appears to detail how the Central Intelligence Agency successfully hacked a wide variety of tech products, including iPhones, Android devices, Wi-Fi routers and Samsung televisions. That’s just about...

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The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia, August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Larry Downing

WikiLeaks Exposes Alleged CIA Cyber Spying

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 8, 2017 | World

A trove of documents released by WikiLeaks alleges a CIA surveillance program that targets everyday gadgets ranging from smart TVs to smartphones to cars. According to WikiLeaks, such snooping could turn some of these devices into recorders of everyday conversations —...

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Former CIA officer Sabrina De Sousa with her lawyer Manuel Magalhaes Silva leaving Judiciary Police headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday. (Stringer/Reuters)

Ex-CIA Officer Celebrates Italy’s Decision Not to Jail Her in Muslim Cleric’s Kidnapping

by Ian Shapira | Mar 4, 2017 | World

For years, Sabrina De Sousa tried persuading Italian authorities she was wrongly convicted in absentia for the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan. From her home in Washington and now in Portugal, the former American spy lobbied for a pardon so...

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Free Syrian army fighters gesture after they took control of Tal al-Zaatar in the province of Daraa, Syria August 13, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir

U.S. Aid for Syrian Opposition Frozen following Extremists’ Attack

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 22, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – Amman – Well-informed sources in the Syrian armed opposition said that U.S. military aid, backed by the CIA, intended for opposition factions in northwest Syria has been halted, since it came under major extremist attack last month. Reuters quoted two U.S....

The Return to Saudi Arabia!

by Tariq Alhomayed | Feb 21, 2017 | Opinion

The region is undergoing a game-changer phase after the conclusion of former U.S. president Barack Obama’s tenure and the start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s phase. This is happening because of Trump’s stance in considering the fight against terrorism as a...