OSINT analysis of U.S. capabilities to attack industrial control systems
I'm very pleased to announce that Sean McBride, co-founder of Critical Intelligence, is our latest speaker at Suits and Spooks Boston. With Sean's addition, we'll have the most aggressive set of talks...
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U.S. SECDEF on Attribution - A Little Too Optimistic?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave a speech on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) Eisenhower Award dinner in New York City where he made the...
View ArticleMy Talk on Cyber Warfare and China's Active Defense Strategy
I'm very pleased to be able to announce that I'll be speaking at The New York Military Affairs Symposium in New York City this Friday, October 19th with renowned historian Dr. John Prados. If you're in...
View ArticleFact-checking Secretary Panetta's Speech Regarding a Preemptive Strike
In an important speech on Thursday night, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke about how the Department of Defense has improved capabilities to protect the U.S. against the threat of a catastrophic...
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The Most Important Cyber Issue in 2013: Offense as Defense
Between SECDEF Panetta signaling Iran and other states that the U.S. won't tolerate increased cyber attacks without a response and the increasing impatience on the part of the private sector of being...
View ArticleRidiculous Administration Premise on U.S., Iran, and Saudi Aramco
Nicole Perlroth's New York Times story - In Cyberattack on Saudi Oil Firm, U.S. sees Iran Firing Back - is a ridiculous premise based on confusing hypotheses regarding malware that may not even have...
View Article10 Years Ago Today - Another Build-up to War on Bad Intelligence?
10 years ago in October 2002, a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was produced whose findings concluded that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. In February, 2003, SECSTATE Colin Powell addressed...
View ArticleActive Defense as a Chinese Military Strategy for Informatized Warfare
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said in a speech in New York City on October 11, 2012 that “If we detect an imminent threat of attack that will cause significant physical destruction or kill...
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What's Happening at Russia's MEPHI and China's Key Lab of Aerospace...
Each month, Taia Global's Science and Technical Intelligence Flash Traffic brief looks at key R&D projects in any one of 14 nation state's research facilities including those of Russia and China....
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OSCE Breached; Internal Documents Posted by Anonymous
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe decided in 2011 to take on cyber security as one of its missions. The reality of threats in cyber space for the OSCE has become even more real...
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OSCE's Cyber Security Confidence Building Measures Revealed by Anonymous
Anonymous has been able to exfiltrate a second, smaller batch of documents from OSCE's webserver (OSCEPA.AT) on November 11, 2012; even after the company knew that they had been attacked. This second...
View ArticleHave iSight Partners - PayPal - Skype Bypassed Due Process?
The recent incident involving the release of Skype user data to law enforcement by iSight Partners raises serious due process questions; especially considering the rapid growth of the cyber...
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The Cyber Warfare Component to Israel's Pillar of Cloud Op
Israeli Defense Forces have been engaged in missile attacks against Hamas targets in Gaza off and on for about a month, however it has escalated in the wake of the killing of Ahmed Jabari, Hamas’...
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Anonymous Attacks Israeli Air Force Website and Other Targets
English language page of Israeli Air Force WebsiteA Middle East faction of Anonymous has taken the side of the Palestinian settlers in Gaza and announced that it would be attacking Israeli government...
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France Throws Cyber Stones From Its Glass House
Source: L'Expansion.L'Express.fr 20 NOV 2012The government of France shouldn't be so quick to charge the U.S. with being responsible for the Flame malware found on President Sarkozy's computer....
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Debate: "Private Companies Should Be Authorized To Take Measured Offensive...
On Feb. 8-9, 2013, up to 100 people including some of the world's leading experts in law, incident response, reverse-engineering and intelligence will meet in Washington DC to debate the topic:...
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Help Navy SEALs Fund Support SAS Sgt. Danny Nightingale
I've spent the last week trying to find a way to support an SAS sniper who's been unjustly jailed in Britain over a handgun possession charge. The article that I wrote about it is now up at SOFREP.com....
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HostDime, SoftLayer, et al, Need to be Federally Bitch-Slapped For Violating...
Source: HostDime.com websiteWhen the New York Times released its story that some of the Syrian government's websites were hosted outside of Syria, I wasn't surprised to see SoftLayer Technologies as...
View ArticleAnonymous Reveals The 24 hr Violence Cycle in Syria
Part of the Syrian government email dump that was published by Par-anoia.net contained daily reports from the Syrian government to its embassy at the U.N. on terrorist attacks occurring on its soil....
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Please Remember the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation this Holiday Season
There are lots of great charities out there that are deserving of a share of our gift-giving this holiday season (and year-round for that matter). I'd like to introduce you to one of my favorite...
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