Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Shipments of Nearly 20,000 Fake Driver’s Licenses Seized at Chicago Airport
August 10th, 2020Via: Fox: Advances in technology may have made counterfeiting more difficult but crooks keep finding a way to stay in business. In fact, federal customs officers have seized 1,513 shipments from overseas containing fraudulent documents—19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses—just at Chicago O’Hare International Airport this year through the end of June. Most of the shipments […]
Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put Over a Billion Android Phones at Risk
August 9th, 2020Via: Ars Technica: A billion or more Android devices are vulnerable to hacks that can turn them into spying tools by exploiting more than 400 vulnerabilities in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, researchers reported this week. The vulnerabilities can be exploited when a target downloads a video or other content that’s rendered by the chip. Targets can […]
U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
August 7th, 2020Via: Wall Street Journal: A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Anomaly Six LLC a Virginia-based […]
Saudi Hit Squad Was Sent to Toronto to Try to Kill Former Intel Official, Lawsuit Alleges
August 6th, 2020Via: TheStar: The Saudi men arrived at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on a fall day. Among them were DNA forensic experts, a senior military officer and a member of Saudi Arabia’s ministry of foreign affairs. Holding tourist visas, they approached different customs kiosks. When questioned by border officers, they said they were not together. In […]
Bill Binney: There Was No Russian Hack
August 2nd, 2020Via: Schiller Institute: Transcript
Nimbus Data ExaDrive: 100TB Capacity in 3.5 Inch Form Factor, Costs $40,000
July 31st, 2020Send a few trucksloads over. And keep’em coming. Utah Data Center: The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. […]
Bill Clinton Went to Jeffrey Epstein’s Island With 2 ‘Young Girls’, Virginia Giuffre Says
July 31st, 2020Via: Newsweek: In recently unsealed court documents involving dead child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman named Virginia Giuffre, who publicly accused Epstein of sex trafficking, said that she once saw former Democratic President Bill Clinton on Epstein’s island with “two young girls” from New York. In the questioning […]
Harvard Prof Charged With False Statements, Failing To Report Income From Wuhan University Of Technology
July 29th, 2020Just another day at the office. Via: ZeroHedge: In what we’re sure is just an honest mistake and total coincidence, Harvard University professor Dr. Charles Lieber was charged yesterday “in a superseding indictment with tax offenses for failing to report income he received from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China.” The United States […]
How to Fake an Alien Invasion
July 28th, 2020From 2015. Via: Corbett Report:
Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb’s Vibrations
July 27th, 2020Handy for targets who don’t use smartphones. Via: Wired: The list of sophisticated eavesdropping techniques has grown steadily over years: wiretaps, hacked phones, bugs in the wall—even bouncing lasers off of a building’s glass to pick up conversations inside. Now add another tool for audio spies: Any light bulb in a room that might be […]
