Tag: ID’d

16 MAY

Ex-CIA employee ID’d but not charged in Vault 7 leak of hacking tools

(credit: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt – Wikimedia) Federal authorities have identified a suspect behind last year’s Vault 7 leak of Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools. The trove published to WikiLeaks included exploits and documents for infecting iPhones, Wi-Fi routers, and Cisco Switches, and it represented the biggest-known loss of classified information in CIA history. According to articles […]

17 JAN

DNA from an escaped slave who ended up in Iceland ID’d in his descendants

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Hans Jonatan left Denmark in 1802 and eventually started a new life as an immigrant in Iceland. But he was an unusual Icelander. Unlike most Icelanders—and even most immigrants to Iceland—Hans Jonatan was mixed-race and a former slave. By piecing together genetic information from his descendants, scientists in […]