Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
U.S. Appoints First Cyber Warfare General
December 15th, 2010Via: Guardian: The US military has appointed its first senior general to direct cyber warfare – despite fears that the move marks another stage in the militarisation of cyberspace. The newly promoted four-star general, Keith Alexander, takes charge of the Pentagon’s ambitious and controversial new Cyber Command, designed to conduct virtual combat across the world’s […]
The Shadow War
December 13th, 2010Via: Newsweek: Historically, Israel’s covert operations have been on the violent side. When it comes to strategic murders, the Mossad has established a record 50 years long of “targeted assassinations,” often taking out scientists who tried to help its enemies develop weapons of mass destruction. It has carried out hits all over the Middle East […]
Anonymous Running Attacks on Anti-Wikileaks Sites with Low Orbit Ion Cannon
December 9th, 2010LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon): LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) is a network stress testing application, written in C# and developed by “praetox”. It attempts a denial-of-service attack on the target site by flooding the server with TCP packets, UDP packets, or HTTP requests with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. […]
List of Facilities Vital to U.S. Security Leaked
December 6th, 2010If you look at the State Department document, notice how many times the phrase, “undersea cable landing,” appears? I stopped counting after 50. This goes all the way back to one of my core assumptions on here: If “The Terrorists” were real, this show would have been down long ago. It would take no special […]
WikiLeaks Open Thread
December 3rd, 2010I’m officially exhausted with the WikiLeaks spectacle. I’m now blocking any mention of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange from my feeds and email submissions. Enough already. Wake me up when I can locally search the whole damn thing on my own. This clown act is a bore. Ok, so these were the stories that caught my […]
NAB Computer Debacle Finally Fixed
November 30th, 2010*shaking head* Via: PerthNow: THE last of millions of National Australia Bank (NAB) customers left cashless and embarrassed by a massive computing failure have had their accounts restored. NAB said today that the remaining 19,155 affected customers could now access money in their accounts – six days after the debacle began. Accounts are all up […]
Iran Admits Uranium Enrichment Centrifuges Hit by Malware
November 29th, 2010Via: AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted Monday that “several” uranium enrichment centrifuges were damaged by “software installed in electronic equipment,” amid speculation Iran’s nuclear activities had come under cyberattack. “They were able to create problems on a limited basis for some of our centrifuges by software installed in electronic equipment,” Ahmadinejad told reporters when asked […]
Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
November 22nd, 2010This story is a couple of years old, but I’d never heard of it before. Via: Counterpunch: Looking for weapons of mass destruction? Try the backwoods of North Carolina. The site is easy to find. You don’t need infrared telemetry, informants, or a global positioning satellite. Just follow the railroad tracks deep into the heart […]
For 18 Minutes in April, China Hijacked 15% of the World’s Internet Traffic
November 17th, 2010Via: National Defense Magazine: For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies. This massive redirection of data has received scant attention in the mainstream media because the mechanics of how the hijacking was […]
Clues Suggest Stuxnet Virus Was Built for Subtle Nuclear Sabotage
November 16th, 2010Via: Wired: New and important evidence found in the sophisticated “Stuxnet” malware targeting industrial control systems provides strong hints that the code was designed to sabotage nuclear plants, and that it employs a subtle sabotage strategy that involves briefly speeding up and slowing down physical machinery at a plant over a span of weeks. “It […]
