In the information war, nothing is what it seems, and your mind is the battleground…
MUST READ: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army…
The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called “signature reduction.”…
Facebook Busts Israeli Campaign to Disrupt Elections in African, Asian and Latin American Nations…
Facebook said Thursday it banned an Israeli company that ran an influence campaign aimed at disrupting elections in various countries and has canceled dozens of accounts engaged in spreading disinformation. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, told reporters that the tech giant had purged 65 Israeli accounts, 161 pages, dozens of groups and four […]
US Navy Contractors Hacked by China “More Than A Handful Of Times”…
Over the last 18 months, Chinese hackers breached several unidentified Navy contractors, stealing large amounts of data related to undersea warfare, including top-secret programs to develop supersonic anti-ship missiles for submarines, officials and experts said, triggering top-to-bottom review of cyber vulnerabilities for the Navy. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer recently requested a review to examine why […]
‘Preparing the Battlefield’: Hackers Implant Digital Grenades in Industrial Networks…
The United States pioneered the use of cyberweapons when it shattered Iran’s nuclear centrifuges in 2010 but such devastating cyber tools have spread and are now boomeranging to make industrial digital sabotage a growing concern to the United States. The weapons can wreak destruction and kill people. Experts say cyber weapons can turn off power […]
Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles…
Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea’s missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds. Soon a large number of the North’s military rockets began to explode, veer off course, disintegrate in midair and plunge into the sea. […]
Cyberwar for Sale…
After a maker of surveillance software was hacked, its leaked documents shed light on a shadowy global industry that has turned email theft into a terrifying — and lucrative — political weapon…
The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm…
On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA…