Category Cybersecurity
Watchdog Exposes Pentagon’s Cyber Struggles
Excerpts: Watchdog Exposes Pentagon’s Cyber Struggles The Hill · by Jacqueline Thomsen · October 14, 2018 Defense experts are seizing on a stunning federal report highlighting cyber vulnerabilities in U.S. weapons systems, calling it an embarrassing wake-up call for the Pentagon. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released this week found that nearly all of the weapons systems it tested […]
How The U.S. Forced China To Quit Stealing — Using A Chinese Spy; But, Has China Already Placed Digital Landmines Inside U.S. Weaponry And Critical Infrastructure?
How The U.S. Forced China To Quit Stealing — Using A Chinese Spy; But, Has China Already Placed Digital Landmines Inside U.S. Weaponry And Critical Infrastructure? http://www.fortunascorner.com The title above comes from Garrett Grafe’s October 11, 2018 article, posted to the cyber and technology website, WIRED.com. As has been well-documented and reported, Mr. Grafe writes that “China has become […]
Global Internet Shutdown Likely Over Next 48 Hours: Report
Global Internet Shutdown Likely Over Next 48 Hours: Report By World, Ani, www.ndtv.comView OriginalOctober 11th, 2018 Internet users can face difficulties in accessing internet in the next 48 hours.Photo by: RepresentationalNew Delhi: Internet users across the globe may experience widespread network failures as the key domain servers are slated to undergo routine maintenance over the next 48 hours. […]
Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage Involving Theft of Trade Secrets from Leading U.S. Aviation Companies
Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage Involving Theft of Trade Secrets from Leading U.S. Aviation Companies justice.gov · October 10, 2018 A Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative, Yanjun Xu, aka Qu Hui, aka Zhang Hui, has been arrested and charged with conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from […]
U.S. Spycraft And Stealthy Diplomacy Expose Russian Subversion In A Key Balkans Vote
Excerpts: U.S. Spycraft And Stealthy Diplomacy Expose Russian Subversion In A Key Balkans Vote By Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, www.nytimes.comView OriginalOctober 9th, 2018 WASHINGTON — For years, Ivan Savvidis has been the Kremlin’s man in Greece. A Greek-Russian billionaire, a former member of the Russian Duma and the owner of a professional Greek soccer team, Mr. Savvidis has […]
Google Drops Out Of Pentagon Cloud Computing Competition
David Maxwell Comment: “I wonder if this will come back to haunt Google. But I doubt there will be any significant blowback. It is no longer possible for the government and the military (or the public in general) to cut ties from google products (as I send this from a gmail account using Google Chrome […]
How Social Media Will Drastically Change the Way Wars Are Fought. Unless It Doesn’t
How Social Media Will Drastically Change the Way Wars Are Fought. Unless It Doesn’t. – Modern War Institute mwi.usma.edu · by Steve Leonard · October 8, 2018 P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) In the mid-90s, the think tank circuit was abuzz with the concept of “revolutions in military affairs.” […]
Former NSA Deputy Is Mattis’s Leading Choice To Head The Spy Service If It Splits From Cyber Command
Former NSA Deputy Is Mattis’s Leading Choice To Head The Spy Service If It Splits From Cyber Command By Ellen Nakashima, www.washingtonpost.comView OriginalOctober 5th, 2018 The NSA’s former deputy director, Chris Inglis, is said to be a leading candidate to take over the agency if its leadership post is separated from that of U.S. Cyber Command.Photo by: […]
Cyber Attacks Should Be Treated As An Act Of War
From ABC-CLIO’s Praeger Security International websitehttps://psi.praeger.com/ Cyber Attacks Should Be Treated as an Act of War Lamont ColucciRipon College It is surprising that it has taken about 20 years to openly discuss cyber attacks against the United States committed by other nations. The first major attack is often cited as the “Moonlight Maze” attack of […]
Russia’s Elite Hacking Unit Has Been Silent, But Busy
Russia’s Elite Hacking Unit Has Been Silent, But Busy By Catalin Cimpanu, www.zdnet.comView OriginalOctober 5th, 2018 Turla, one of the codenames given by the cyber-security industry to one of Russia’s oldest and most “talented” cyber-espionage unit, has been very active in the past three years, even though their operations have not received the same media coverage of […]
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