Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Anti-Censorship Tool Used in Syria and Iran Compromised; Logs Keystrokes, Phones Home to Server in U.S.
May 31st, 2012Via: Security Week: Simurgh, a privacy tool used in Iran and Syria to bypass Internet censorship and governmental monitoring, is being circulated with a backdoor. The compromised version has been offered on P2P networks and via web searches. Research conducted by CitizenLab.org has shown that malicious version isn’t available form the original software source, only […]
U.S. Commandos Have Been Parachuting Into North Korea
May 29th, 2012Via: AFP: US and South Korean special forces have been parachuting into North Korea to gather intelligence about underground military installations, a US officer has said in comments carried in US media. Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South Korea, told a conference held in Florida last week that Pyongyang […]
Flame Virus
May 29th, 2012Via: Reuters: Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation […]
John Brennan Manages The Obama Regime’s Assassination List
May 24th, 2012Via: The Atlantic: “White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in choosing which terrorists will be targeted for drone attacks or raids, establishing a new procedure for both military and CIA targets,” Kimberly Dozier of the Associated Press reports. “The effort concentrates power over the use of lethal U.S. force outside war […]
FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit
May 24th, 2012My guess is that this headline should read, “Sheepdipped NSA Sources and Methods Now Used for Domestic Law Enforcement.” Via: Cnet: CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications. Research Credit: almaverdad2
Former J.P. Morgan Lobbyist Manages Banking Committee Expected To Investigate J.P. Morgan’s Trading Loss
May 24th, 2012Via: Republic Report: The Senate Banking Committee is responding to outrage over the news that J.P. Morgan lost some $3 billion in customer money because of a risky trading strategy. The committee is preparing for two hearings with regulators, and Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), chair of the committee, is hoping that Jamie Dimon will testify […]
DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers
May 24th, 2012Via: Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker, and screenwriter Mark Boal. According […]
NSA Running College Programs for Cyber Operators
May 23rd, 2012Via: Reuters: The National Security Agency is trying to expand U.S. cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a new cyber-ops program at selected universities. The cyber-ops curriculum is geared to providing the basic education for jobs in intelligence, military and law enforcement that are so secret they will […]
More Facebook IPO Antics
May 23rd, 2012“There is often VERY strong voodoo at work…” —Facebook IPO I don’t want to bore people with too many posts about this, but the stories are getting pretty interesting for being only a few days out from the IPO. Here’s The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO: The analysts cut their estimates […]
Priest Claims Missing Teenage Girl Had Been Kidnapped ‘For Sex Parties by a Gang Involving Vatican Police and Foreign Diplomats’
May 22nd, 2012Via: Telegraph: A teenage girl whose disappearance in Rome has remained a mystery for 30 years was kidnapped for sex parties by a gang involving Vatican police and foreign diplomats, the Roman Catholic Church’s leading exorcist has claimed. Father Gabriele Amorth, who was appointed by the late John Paul II as the Vatican’s chief exorcist […]
