Obama Is Going to Drop the Ball
Elizabeth Warren.He's not going to name her as head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- "a watchdog agency she invented and is most qualified to lead."http://act.boldprogressives.org/...You see,...
View ArticleCyber Warfare: New Weapons, Same Tactics
In a recent NPR article on cyberwarfare, attention is given to current international discussion on rules of engagement upon the electronic theater.Naturally, viruses, hacking, and denial of service...
View ArticleIran Confirms Cyberattack on Nuclear Facilities
There has been much speculation in the press as to whether the U.S. or Israel would go so far as to bomb Iranian facilities in an attempt to halt or delay that country's attempts to go nuclear. But...
View ArticleAnonymous Publishes Stuxnet Worm
It turns out the goldmine of emails showing misconduct was not the only treasure Anonymous got from HBGary. HBGary had a version of the Stuxnet worm, used to damaged Iran's nuclear program, on their...
View Articlestuxnet: A primer
Stuxnet is basically the first public act of “cyberwar” committed by one nation against another. But most of my non-technical friends, to the extent that they even know it exists, don’t know why it...
View ArticleIsrael admits to abducting missing Gaza engineer
No real surprise here, the foreign press and international human rights organizations have pretty much figured out how the Mossad kidnapped the lead engineer of the Gaza power station. For those not...
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Cisco Accused of Helping China Track Falun Gong Dissidents
Cisco has been accused of helping the Chinese track Falun Gong dissidents. (Source: Xinhua)China has been widely criticized for its invasive internet policies, including spying on hotel guests'...
View ArticleIranian Oil Industry Hit by Cyber-Attack
Someone really doesn't like Iranian industry. Quoting Slashdot:"Iran disconnected computer systems at a number of its oil facilities in response to a cyber attack that hit multiple industry targets...
View ArticleWho made Flame?
Flame, of course is the latest computer super bug discovered and publicized by Kaspersky Lab which also discovered the famous Stuxnet malware. Flame shares two features with the fabled Stuxnet virus,...
View ArticleConfirmed: Obama Ordered Cyberattacks on Iran's Nuclear Program
Really remarkable reporting here by the New York Times. Political intrigue, just war theory, and high-stakes spy games all at play.http://www.nytimes.com/...Soon the two countries had developed a...
View ArticleLibya's Qaddafi helped US & Israel against Iran in Olympic Games
For all those that thought the late Libyan dictator, Mummar Qaddafi was some sort of anti-imperialist hero, I would like to point out that still another way in which he collaborated with the...
View ArticleThe Hilarious Hypocrisy of the Bush League Leakers
On Friday, President Obama denounced as "offensive" and "wrong" allegations that he was behind the leaks of U.S. cyber attacks on Iran and the terrorist "kill list," while Attorney General Eric Holder...
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Spy vs. Spy: Stuxnet, Good-Guys and Bad-Guys
[Originally published to Enformable.com] On June 1st of this year the New York Times reported that President Obama himself participated in the "Stuxnet" cyberattack against Iran's nuclear ambitions,...
View ArticleThe Digital Cold War
I preface this diary stating that I myself am a systems administrator. What that means for your lay folk not intrenched into the details of the IT world is that I am the keeper of the rainbow bridge...
View ArticleExpanded Stuxnet Investigation Into Gov't Whistleblowers & Press: We Saw...
This weekend's Washington Post had a disturbing article on how the FBI is ramping up--using new computer software--its investigation into the government sources for an explosive article on the Stuxnet...
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Marc Thiessen wants to impeach the president. And he's got a new reason!
Make it stop. Bush-era megahack Marc Thiessen has graced the Washington Post (yes, he writes for them, probably because the Post opinion pages are a welfare system for humiliated conservatives) to...
View ArticleBlackEnergy--malware targeting energy infrastructure
Before I go on my annual leave from DKOSiousness, I ran across this today and did not see it covered in any other diaries.BlackEnergy is apparently a variant of Stuxnet, the computer malware that...
View ArticleNSA has spyware in computer hard drives
As a Luddite, I am woefully unqualified to go into an extended commentary.http://mobile.reuters.com/...SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying...
View ArticleWho Wrote "Project Sauron?"
The BBC reports there is a what appears to be a new, possibly state-built bit of malware loose in “government, scientific, military, telecoms and financial organisations,” according to computer...
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Iranian leaders vow Gulf blockade if their oil exports are cut off; U.S....
In a speech to foreign ministry staff Saturday, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated President Hassan Rouhani’s suggestion earlier this month that if the United States succeeds in...
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UPDATED: Digital Warfare Now Global - the Latest; Worse Than We Knew.
A New York Times report from Sheera Frenkel and Nicholas Fandos warns Facebook Identifies New Influence Operations Spanning GlobeSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Tuesday that it had identified multiple...
View ArticleU. S. launched cyber attack on Iranian military systems
Multiple sources are claiming that on Thursday, as the United States first began, then halted, an attack on Iranian air defense forces, a cyberattack was launched to disable those systems. And unlike...
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