CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Gen. David H. Petraeus, now commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Senate voted unanimously 94-0 to confirm General David Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into the deaths of two CIA detainees during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said in an emailed statement Thursday.

President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism adviser outlined on Wednesday an evolving military strategy that will increasingly rely on targeted, clandestine strikes rather than conventional military operations.

A British teenager accused of attempting to hack the website of a national law enforcement agency and two music industry bodies was released on bail on Monday on the condition he does not try to access the internet.

Computer hackers who previously broke into a U.S. Senate server and brought down the CIA website struck an Arizona police website on Thursday, releasing dozens of internal documents over the Internet.

TeaMp0isoN, a hacking group is trying to expose anonymous group identities of its rival LulzSec group, which obtained confidential documents in an attack on Arizona law enforcement.

A suspected British computer hacker was being held on Thursday for questioning about cyber attacks against a British law enforcement agency and two music industry bodies.

Libya and Yemen illustrate in different ways how President Barack Obama has embraced the authority to initiate military action without Congressional approval - a War Powers Act stance more like President George W. Bush than President Jimmy Carter.

The suspected LulzSec hacker 19-year-old Ryan Cleary could face up to ten years in jail in the US if he is found guilty of hacking into the CIA and US Senate websites, it has been reported.

Each week brings word of another cyber attack on a major U.S. institution, sending law enforcement scrambling and raising new questions about whether it has the ability or resources to track down cyber criminals.

Company executives reaping increasingly larger salaries has been a central factor in the expanding gulf between rich and poor, a Washington Post analysis found.

Even before a loosely organized group of hackers broke into the CIA's and Senate's public websites, the White House asked for stiffer sentences for breaking into government and private computer networks.

Intelligence officials, prodded by the Bush White House, sought personal information that they could use to damage the reputation of an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, a former Central Intelligence Agency official told the New York Times.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) public website went offline on Wednesday during the early evening hours of ET with tweets between hackers, moments later, indicating cold war.

LulzSec did it again and this time it isn't 'just another target'. In a major embarrassment for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), their public website went offline on Wednesday during the early evening hours of ET, within 20 minutes of LulzSec's tweet: Tango down - cia.gov - for the lulz. The world's most famous spy agency website was taken out for about a couple of hours before it was back online.

In yet another High-profile cyber attack case, the public website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency went down on Wednesday evening with Lulz Security claiming responsibility for the attack.

The CIA has succumbed to antics of hacker group LulSec Wednesday, making it just the latest in a string of high-profile companies that have fallen victim to cyber attacks.

The latest victim of the now infamous hacking group LulzSec is none other than the US's own Central Intelligence Agency, adding to the recent string of high profile hacking cases worldwide.

Hacker group LulzSec is relentlessly continuing its attack: the public website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) i.e. www.cia.gov was hacked by the group and taken down temporarily on Wednesday even as the U.S. Senate said it had foiled a renewed hacking bid by the same group.

LulzSec claimed on Wednesday its responsibility for hacking the website for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Tango Down - cia.gov - for the lulz, the group tweeted at around 6 p.m., June 15.