Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns—Affair with High-Profile Journalist… But Wait, There’s More
November 10th, 2012You’ll love this. Via: National Post: David Petraeus resigned abruptly Friday as CIA director after an FBI investigation discovered his affair with biographer Paula Broadwell. Broadwell, who released All In: The Education of General David Petraeus earlier this year, is now under investigation for trying to access Petraeus’ email, which may have exposed classified documents, […]
How to Steal Data from Your Neighbor in the Cloud
November 9th, 2012It’s not easy, but the description of the attack is pretty interesting. Via: MIT Technology Review: The new attack undermines one of the basic assumptions underpinning cloud computing: that a customer’s data is kept completely separate from data belonging to any other customer. This separation is supposedly provided by virtualization technology—software that mimics an instance […]
HSBC Could Be Facing More than $1.5 Billion in Money Laundering Fines
November 5th, 2012Via: Reuters: A U.S. fine for anti-money laundering rule breaches could cost HSBC significantly more than $1.5 billion and is likely to lead to criminal charges, Europe’s biggest bank said on Monday. HSBC said the U.S. investigation had damaged the bank’s reputation and forced it to set aside a further $800 million to cover a […]
‘Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves’
November 2nd, 2012“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” —Sun Tzu, The Art o War Update: Nicholas Negroponte Is the Brother of John Negroponte Reader DW tipped me off to something pretty remarkable that I hadn’t noticed […]
Temporal Analytics: Turning Protest Noise Into Intelligence
October 31st, 2012Sign wavers should read this. Via: AOL: While it’s true, it’s hard to predict what people will do, it’s also increasingly true that people worldwide do emit and discuss their behavior through online social media and that can be monitored and analyzed in nearly real-time. Companies such as intelligence analysis contractor Recorded Future, which is […]
Poland Found Explosives on Wreckage of President’s Plane
October 30th, 2012Via: Reuters: Polish investigators found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the government jet that crashed in Russia two years ago, killing Poland’s president and 95 others, daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Tuesday. Without citing sources, the newspaper said prosecutors and explosive experts who examined the remains of the plane in Russia found signs of […]
Personalized Bioweapons
October 29th, 2012Via: The Atlantic: As we write this, soldiers with bionic limbs are returning to active duty, and autonomous cars are driving down our streets. Yet most of these advances are small in comparison with the great leap forward currently under way in the biosciences—a leap with consequences we’ve only begun to imagine. More to the […]
Jimmy Savile… Doorman to the Cesspit
October 28th, 2012This is a long and stomach turning piece by David Icke. Via: 21st Century Wire: British police have said they are currently following 320 lines of inquiry into Savile’s abuse over decades all over the country, but if they are genuine and tenacious in their investigations and really want to know the truth they can […]
U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War
October 28th, 2012Via: Wired: The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in the terror havens of Yemen and Somalia. Camp Lemonnier, originally a French […]
China Unicom Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns
October 27th, 2012Via: Morning Whistle: China Unicom has replaced Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ.CSCO) in one of the country’s most important backbone networks, citing security reasons, the 21st Century Business Herald reported. The replacement project targets “China169,” Cisco’s backbone network router of Wuxi node, in Jiangsu province. Analysts indicated that the product vulnerability and back door problems are […]
